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Is Hacker News becoming Angie's List? What's going on here?

Man you got took. It happens. My father once bought a TV on the street in the Bronx and the box just had a couple of bricks. He didn't go around asking strangers to help get his mo…

It's very immoral to benefit from the utilities, roads, emergency services, etc provided for by tax money and work very hard to not contribute. Think starting a business is hard? T…

I like the idea. I solved the same problem with Jenkins. We already had it setup for CI and CD. We then added a view and jobs for scheduled tasks. Removing crons from servers is hu…

Stop working for an hour and go for a walk. Repeat 2-3 times a week and you'll get some color + light exercise.

>>> PS: Title feels very "sensational"... They all seem so sensational. The TLDR version of this post is "I don't like Twitter so much anymore so it's kind of dead to me" wc has th…

up-voted just to ease the pain

Why not setup a local lab that mimics the environment as closely as possible and abstract all work with Fabric, Salt or something similar? Then you just ship the code you wrote and…

I'm sure it was initially created for that purpose however as soon as demand tapers off they'll being to seek new customers.

There's a lot of questioning about why someone would do this. Why can't someone just write for fun? Does everything now have to be "disruptive" and commercially viable?

"Why do we convince our selves that these types of drastic measures are worth the capital we expend to make them happen." My cynical guess? Wealthy people with liberal guilt. As fo…

I'm not sure it's marketing but being in the bubble like was previously mentioned. Apple has nearly 100% market share with fellow engineers at work. Sometimes I forget PCs exist un…

I think that's the point. If you only expect to make 500K* from album sales, it makes sense to sell a single copy for 500K to a wealthy fan and let the content leak out to other fa…

Corporate policy :( I really wanted to try this out but I'm stuck on 10.8

I didn't know this was a thing but I think I'll make April STFUApril for me and give it a try. I definitely complain too often. I even complain about others who complain.

Facebook is slowly becoming more like Myspace when it lost the lead.

My guess is that they were being asked by bloggers, journalists, etc who were coming in for SXSW and thought it would be easier to put out an online statement to direct people to. …

Sometimes an M-Kill is better than destroying the entire thing because you can target support troops when they bring in a wrecker.

I do this too. I dislike when functions in languages don't explicitly return something even if that something is nothing.

Perhaps it's a form of copy protection but IMO, without it being digital, DRM isn't possible. I did purchase this book because the last version has so many good reviews and I too w…

It just seems like a personal complaint on your part. You seem to feel cheated. That's fine, I'd feel the same way. But to say it's DRM when the content isn't even digital smells l…

It seems like you're just frustrated that you can't get the new version for free or at a drastically reduced price. That's not related to DRM at all. You have the rights to re-sell…

My lightweight experience is a little different. I didn't want to run a VM on my MacBook Air and I already run VMs locally on my Mac Mini so an alias to the Ubuntu VM on my mini le…

It was H&R Block until tonight. I started my 2013 filing in H&R but hadn't submitted. I stumbled on this post and saw all the votes for TurboTax and re-entered my info into TurboTa…