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Thanks for this, it echoes my sentiments exactly. I first saw the 1995 film a couple years ago and loved it, but the existential pieces really need some contemplation, or at least …

Is drinking coffee on an empty stomach actually considered harmful? I do it daily every day of the week. My first meal of the day is lunch a few hours after I've had either an Amer…

I completely agree. I admit that I'm following season 2 because it's still an enjoyable show, but every single one of those points is valid. At times it feels like Esmail is insult…

It's a common idiom, specifically in modern C code. See "C Interfaces and Implementations", one of the best books on the subject of writing reusable C. The author dedicates an enti…

I won't assume that someone on HN wouldn't potentially benefit from this, but it honestly seems like OP submit this without reading the first sentence of the first page. That, or t…

Great comment. Echoes a lot of the sentiment I've been feeling since graduating college. Started out at a web startup where everyone was focused on learning the next new framework …

I know enough to not pretend I'm on a higher plane of racial understanding by giving trite justifications such as "I'm the only rich white guy in a gentrified neighborhood" while s…

As a white guy who also grew up in a predominantly black area with black friends and makes good money, your attempt to appear as the paragon of racial enlightenment makes me cringe…

I know you meant well, but to give such a stern warning and then admit that you haven't done any kernel-related work at all is frustrating. I've just been getting involved in kerne…

>Federal prosecutors said the suspects targeted companies including Alcoa Inc, Allegheny Technologies Inc, United States Steel Corp, Toshiba Corp unit Westinghouse Electric Co, the…

He took down his reply, but he shares a name with a fairly famous actor. Gonna take a stab that the "amateur ... xxx" was related to that guy. Also, you're an idiot.

I started typing a really verbose and roundabout answer that really just amounted to this. I don't even really agree with learning Python first. If you can get over the hurdle that…

>That's for non SSD drives. Yep, clarified in my edit. >So every other laptop/desktop you're gonna get with those storage sizes also has rotating rust disks, with are more volatile…

Aha. You can spot the Apple fanboys rushing to contend this just by saying they don't use 128GB to begin with. The entire point is that pretty much any other (read: non-Apple) lapt…

I mean, I get that he's trying to make a point here, and he clearly feels as strongly about this as he's written. But it sounds like an idealistic 13-year-old wrote the whole diatr…

As someone who actually enjoys making offensive comments in the _right context_, I can't disagree more with you. When somebody says something offensive, context is everything. If y…

Not sure why someone felt the appropriate response was to downvote you rather than voicing their disagreement. I think you're right. With WhatsApp picking up speed in my close frie…

I had an issue with this while finishing up classes at school, although I understand being a college student isn't really the main demographic for this article. I had a group of fr…

"None of them read hackernews, so they have no idea that living and breathing computers is prereq for becoming an employable programmer." I know, right? I forgot that we who check …

That's because that's all "data science" is. A buzzword (phrase?) used to make people who like the sexy sound of "big data" but don't want to put in the effort to become computer s…

Precisely. I've read the counter sentiment multiple times from black hats who are exasperated seeing "hacker" tied to any notion of someone who programs or likes to "tinker with sh…

Notch isn't developing, but it's ultimately his IP. He's made over $100M in licensing deals on the brand alone. I'm sure he's going to be the shotcaller (if not just a providing a …

I think Notch of Minecraft fame just cemented the folly of this in a Tweet a second ago: > "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled…

Commenting on this incredibly late, but I knew there'd be some good fodder in this comment thread. You have a good point, but unfortunately you're still missing the point. Not bein…

It's funny, I've heard of the term stoicism in the philosophical regard, but never knew what it was, and yet now I'm reading that it embodies a lot of what I've felt for years. Gro…