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It's fitting that a story that hit the front page on Hacker News about introverts has no comments.

Still, it would be nice to be able to create groups to watch and filter repositories and users on GitHub.

It is. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078285

"Your entire future in one place" is clearer.

That's exactly how averages work if you're using the median value rather than the arithmetic mean. If the median age for an apple is 14 months, then you have the same chance of sel…

If I recall correctly, Scott Hanselman raised the Assembly analogy in a post linked from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2783060 . While discussing the unreadable …

This Ruby style guide is based on https://github.com/chneukirchen/styleguide/blob/master/RUBY-... , as stated in the introductory paragraph. That style guide also contains these co…

Parent is possibly referring to the blog's horrendous color scheme, not Haskell as a language.

You can, but one reason nginx isn't used as much is that it does not fully support HTTP 1.1. As a result, for example, although it's possible, it's not trivial to proxy WebSocket c…

Certainly. My guess is Taylor would approve of your methods. The output is undeniably good, though difficult to measure.

I wonder how many people who paraphrase Taylor's "Principles of Scientific Management" have carefully read it. Taylor exposes several insights that are antithetical to the commonly…

These lectures are also available on iTunes U. It would be interesting to compare the number of YouTube views to the number of iTunes downloads. I watched the first two classes on …

Both the original paper ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=933932 ) and the blog post are from 2006.

That is exactly what cars are. They are weapons loaded with ammunition and ready to be fired. It baffles me that many people don't seem to be aware of this material reality.

Change last name to 'Torvalds' (edit: name in title changed)

To those who are unhappy that customers are whining, I'd like to offer some context: The instant viewing section is almost unusable since they launched their layout redesign in ear…

The opening statement (and URL) of this post is rather interesting: "I just accidental hacked PayPal" followed by "it took 30 seconds and I had total access to someone else's accou…

There are exactly 5,000 comments on this blog post right now. It appears almost all commenters oppose the new design changes. It will be interesting to see whether Netflix will rol…

Perhaps the most irritating aspect of the phrase "everything happens for a reason" is that it is a truism from a scientific point of view. Of course, everything happens for a reaso…

In doing, there is a lot of reading. Every line of code you write you will likely read dozens of times. And if you are writing anything significant, they will be read many more tim…