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Happy birthday Hacker News! It's usually the first site I pull up everyday, and even though I mostly just lurk I've learnt a lot of interesting info from the site. I appreciate the…

On a similar note, any good mobile educational apps for kids? I found Khan Academy Kids which is quite polished and nice.

Baldur's Gate was the first RPG I played on PC. Had to play it at a friends place (he had a PC), it was a very intriguing game with the strong characterization and choices you coul…

Even in places where a warmer climate might seem to give some positives, for example where I live in interior Canada, with warmer and longer growing seasons in a typically cold cli…

Thanks for your thoughtful response.

Instead of the usual doom and gloom, or abandoning all hope, are there any tangible ways a person can make a difference? Reducing consumption and consumerism, energy efficiency and…

Massage helps with loosening and relaxing the muscles, usually those muscles get tight and sore with trying to compensate for posture etc. But I've found it's just a temporary fix.…

It is interesting how the editorial talks about perspiration being a natural way for the body to excrete aluminum, while aluminum is the active ingredient in most anti-perspirants.…

Location: Alberta, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML / CSS, JS, Bootstrap, Unix / Linux Résumé/CV: http://spirelabs.ca/files/Resume_Develop…

Actually I think their long term plan will be to switch to ARM processors. Probably not just yet though. They have already made their software compile to platform independent code …

I'm not sure if they use the same terminology in Canada, but the four chiropractors at the place I go to all use Dr. and DC as their title, so I'm guessing so.

I started getting chronic back pain last year after being in a desk position for quite some time. I even considered switching jobs as I was that uncomfortable sitting. Some things …

This is fantastic. I'm hoping for some book releases in the near future now that the framework has reached version 1.

You can use LibSass which is written in C++, to avoid the Ruby dependencies. https://github.com/sass/libsass

Do you have a source for the data collecting for Win 7? Windows 8 is a slightly different story since they incorporated signing into your machine with a Microsoft account, so they …

Some people aren't comfortable with the amount of data Microsoft is collecting about them. There are a lot of privacy issues, and their terms of service are really quite jarring if…