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Hmm, so after reading the article I searched for: dell linux laptop and clicked the first link to dell.com On the product page for the 13 inch XPS Linux I saw a notification: "Sorr…

Interesting, what would you say are the legal / TOS ramifications of a service like this?

For anyone interested in a surprisingly pleasant to use front-end MVC framework I am a huge fan of http://mithril.js.org/ . It espouses a (I believe?) slightly more traditional MVC…

Hmm, today I learned America has never had a riot before. Although I seem to distinctly remember my city of Philadelphia rioting pretty good after the Philadelphia Phillies won the…

I'm not sure; I think it's telling that Instagram, arguably one of the most popular / trafficked and supported (Facebook) websites out there, thinks it's unnecessary to even show a…

Hire better engineers?

I don't understand whenever there is a HN article about some injustice being done to Tech Workers somewhere there inevitably be this post > "I can't find sympathy for people making…

I'm not a really vindictive person, but I'm so glad this guy is going to jail; hopefully for the rest of his life.

What does how other countries deal with protests have anything to do with the US Army's guide to dealing with protests?

I see no blame anywhere in the article, and claiming that: > army people [...] are normally pretty isolated from social issues and don't have very well informed opinion of their ow…

How is the actual print / ink quality? I recently took advantage of the Flickr 10 year (feels old man) anniversary to print a bunch of books and was disappointed with the quality o…

It seems like they heavily turned on scroll acceleration. If I scroll 1 "click" of my mousewheel the scroll bar only move a tiny almost imperceptible amount. If I scroll a lot the …

No one in the US goes to prison except low level drug offenders. Everyone else is too big to jail.

There was recently another post on HN about Machine Learning that was also presented on Wayfarer, the UI for this website is very confusing and many of the posts in that submission…

"In other words, no one had any reason to worry that Eich, a longtime executive at the company, would do anything that would negatively affect gay Mozilla employees." You know, exc…

Typical people, using tired anti-other-people sentiment to make glaring generalizations. Seriously, please take this nonsense elsewhere, many of us are well aware of the issues reg…

What about North Korea? I think that's still just a slogan.

True, but still seems like lying by omission, or at least for PR gain...

I am not a graphics / engine programmer but I know a decent amount of what goes into programming a game, and I have to call "suspect" on the claim that low level graphics API progr…

I was just struck by the improbability of using "nothing made by an asshole." Drive a Volkswagen? Or a Daimler, Chrysler, BMW, or Mercedes Benz?

Linus Torvalds is generally accepted to be pretty abrasive, at least, do you use anything created by him? I try not to learn anything about any creator whose work I admire, they wi…

Whenever a post like this comes up I'm always curious why so much of developer interviews are focused an algorithmic performance. Is it because it can be mathematically proven whil…

Don't worry about the "real-world consequences [of] fail[ure]" because the author sure doesn't seem to either. For the risk-averse out there, don't you have some family to "fall ba…

It's always sunny outside - a 1 minute reflection Seriously though how can you start generalizing / assuming about working as a professional programmer when you're not even 1 year …

If I had dedicated more time and energy to learning new things 13 years ago would I know more things now? Yes?