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nichols

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    Comment #6011601

    It was probably "audited" by the NSA, or whatever other three-letter agency paid for this trainwreck of an ECMAScript to be shat out upon the world.

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    Comment #5910795

    How about Portals ? GlaDOS.

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    Comment #5904299

    Have you tried getting reincarnated as a rich guy? Alternately, you could create your own crypto-currency and get chumps to bid it up. Buy some oregano and try to sell it as mariju…

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    Comment #5891493

    Try challenging your interviewer to a dance-off. If you win, they're legally required to give you the job.

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    Comment #5803272

    Yes, I am shocked, shocked! that Ayn Rand gets people worked into a lather. How could we have ever predicted this?????

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    Comment #5802058

    Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons... "But it wasn't until I started posting on Hacker News that I truly realized man's inhumanity to man..."

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    Comment #5778158

    In related news, Larry Page now demands to be addressed as "Father Comstock" when in the GooglePlex.

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    Comment #5722612

    Google's new project will be robots responsible for shutting down old services and groups. Rumor has it that they'll be called "Terminators," and they'll look kind of like this: ht…

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    Comment #5542678

    Next time he asks you to do something, drop trou and moon him. I guarantee that your relationship with the company will never be the same.

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    Comment #5542654

    I remember reading that Githubbers are into Techno (trance?), so that speaks to the kind of people you're likely to work with. People with bad taste in music?

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    Comment #5542645

    Time to start moving away from TurdPress.

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    Comment #5540984

    You might need to adjust your leadership style. For example, use hand puppets rather than giving instructions directly. Also start referring to yourself in the third person; that u…

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    Comment #5537199

    Dance, monkey, dance!

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    Comment #5421163

    I think they should fire all of them. It's the only way they'll learn!

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    Comment #5379583

    It's like Facebook, but for doggs.

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    Comment #5373143

    tl;dr: * You can often get things done faster by doing a half-assed job. * Robots have not advanced far enough to wash dishes yet.

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    Comment #5262101

    Try selling it to Yahoo!.

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    Comment #5205731

    Actually, that's how security vulnerabilities are normally handled in the Ruby on Rails world. What, you think I'm joking? Think again: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/hack…

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    Comment #5108734

    better link: http://kent.spillner.org/blog/work/2009/11/14/java-build-too... After about a year of experience with Maven, I find that: * The "surefire" plugin is named ironically. …

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    Comment #5015627

    This article reads like a parody at times. Clearly the designers who designed the ugly logo aren't the problem, it's "everyone else." (He actually says this.) Everyone else is "not…

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    Comment #5006970

    20% is one day a week, assuming a 5-day work week. That's not bad.