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You just have to suck it up and don't let it bother you as the majority of people are not really laughing at you. You may say something embarrassing like 'je suis chaud', which act…

In Canada many parents will enter their children in the bilingual stream, not only for the benefit of knowing another language but also because it acts as a natural filter by remov…

Facts regarding social mobility in the US will back up my claim.

Seems like the criteria use to select Thiel Fellows is the same criteria used by top schools. Probably the reason why many return to school, because they have that option available…

It's a gas spring, similar to a car shock.

The DDR use to steam open all the mail, we've not yet come to that.

I'd disagree having a backend written in Go and a front-end written in another language is being minimal. Plus I think the majority of people attracted to Go are fundamentally oppo…

Just start keeping a journal, there's many benefits of spending 10-20 minutes reflecting on the day.

This is unscrupulous, even the account that submitted this to HN is only 3 hours old and I'm guessing most of the upvotes have been faked.

The 17% figure also includes dog walking. For myself, the midnight walks with my dog have been very rewarding. Giving me time to think about things and reflect on the day. Although…

I think the takeaway from ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Friendster, MySpace, etc is that as soon as you start losing users, then it's over and there's no winning users back. No matter h…

Seriously, they should have went with dedicated boxes on something like Softlayer comme Dropbox. Unlike CPU-cycles, storage needs are relatively predictable as people usually don't…

DO is affordable enough that the minimum you should run are 2 droplets. Having said that, I'm actually fairly impressed with the 500 credit and now you have no excuses to run 2 vms…