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Fusion-IO is getting a run for it's money.

Yes, it hurts Urban Outfitters' case in court if the artist sues them for copyright infringement, and I really hope she does.

RIP Tom, thanks for being an inspiration to me as a very young child. Soul Of A New Machine had a place on my father's bookshelf right next to The C Programming language. I might n…

Why does the RIAA have so much power? If their businesses really are shrinking then, well, does the music industry even matter? It's depressing how much damage you can do to societ…

Finally, I've been trying to convince my landlord to stop allowing phone books for the past two years. Beyond the waste, the amount of trust we give to strangers delivering phone b…

I've always used LDAP or NIS for central user authentication. I've never worked in a company that had more than a few dozen employees, and I only work with production systems. The …

Now that we've spent a trillion dollars killing one man in Afghanistan, it's time to shift our focus on creating a cold war with China to make sure the coffers of the military-indu…

One of positive aspects from the year and a half I did in Seattle was that fewer engineering jobs meant people didn't expect to leave a company every year or two. When hiring syste…

Looking at the PHP this generates, is it just generating excessively bad PHP, or does it really take 4x as much code to do anything in PHP?

Lentils are the most complete non-meat protein source. I believe that Quinoa actually takes this honor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentils

Net impact analysis of outage: A bunch of socially awkward technophiles couldn't tell their friends that they were eating lunch.

Isn't that all charity?

I use them in production storage arrays for both read and write caching.

To me it means I'm going to have to keep a large supply of cocaine and cheap whisky around the office.

This is why geeks will never rule the world.

It's a super dump, but you can get a studio for $1k/month at Trinity Plaza on Market St. Expect to lose your deposit from what I'm told, but hey it has a pool, and plenty of meth d…

Very clear and indisputable impending global destruction with a short window before the event. (Think Asteroids or Aliens). Also, children who fall into wells or survive airliner c…

I had a phone interview with Marc sometime in 2007, I think just after TC40. During the interview they made me aware of Mint.com, so I spent the afternoon playing with Mint & Wesab…

Could we get a new section for HackerNews that says "Social Media Drama"? Then we could filter this entire soap-opera out?

This seems like a good fit, certainly an equivalent quality of editorial content.

Same thing, but buying books.

A blockbuster employee once stole some dvds I returned, and destroyed my credit. To this news, I sing, "We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn!".