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onk

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    Comment #7952117

    I've much enjoyed your illustration throughout the group matches. Interestingly, I've shared it with others and they all fell silent. But once I explained it to them they liked it …

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    Comment #5929720

    Auto-layout is what makes tools like yEd special. I showed someone recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vqVgd4KW8&t=2m10s

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    Comment #5684781

    Sorry for just barfing this out. I'm most curious about whether distinctions are made between back end or "infrastructure" code and "application" code. What type of org do you mana…

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    Open Source in Enterprise

    Sorry for just barfing this one out. I'm most curious about whether distinctions are made between back-end code and front end code. What type of org do you manage or work in and wh…

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    Thinking Things Through

    Just an off-hours thought.

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    Comment #5520248

    I found it hard to compare VPS offerings and ended up making pizza instead: http://workforpizza.com/posts/2013-04-04-comparing-apples-an...

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    Comment #5488835

    Paul, it's tough to do preliminary research on AWS and summarize it so concisely. Best woud be to start/continue using sets of services and the nuances and "gotchas" you noted will…

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    Comment #3772779

    Will then need to correlate with VimGolf score.

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    Comment #3743247

    Too busy chopping wood to sharpen the axe.

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    Comment #3480945

    When Amazon notes "SSD," from a client's perspective, it is only marketing. The storage media matter when you are managing your own hardware. The storage media do not matter in Saa…

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    Comment #2235971

    The question was deliberately broad and honestly inquisitive. But born of the narrow observation that while there are standardized, published formats that separate style from conte…

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    Ask HN: Putting knowledge into imperfect containers

    Files are the recording of observations and also contain the product of thought and instrumentation. They are a History. Because of software dependencies many file formats require …

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    Comment #2224480

    Are there similar "challenges" in the closed source world? Say, C#? And are there similar, say, Scheme or Haskell challenges?

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    Comment #2050294

    Me: How old am I? It: I don't know. how old are you? Me: 17. It: You just said you are 24 years old. Me: What is the applicative order Y combinator? It: I don't have a phone with a…

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    Comment #1903336

    o is too close to 0.

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    Comment #889103

    http://www.workrave.org/

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    Comment #668004

    The last time this type of thing came up ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606801 ) I decided to use it to help me learn some shell scripting: join I tried using diff and reduc…

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    Comment #608789

    Am new to this but: join

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    Comment #563731

    Shouldn't this be discussed on Twitter?

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    Comment #510986

    > Is there a viable alternative to gmail for conversation view and search? Mutt but you'll have to type "ot" to order by thread and "l~b " to search (limit) by in the body of your …

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    Comment #509976

    Given the tested max throughput of the Hitachi 1TB SATAs ( http://www.storagereview.com/Testbed4Compare.sr ) you should be able to get ~2GBps with 2/3 the drives (16 instead of 24)…

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    Comment #493922

    http://www.bash.org/?5273