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Yes, it is obvious. So obvious that assuming that that's what the grand-grandparent is proposing is either disingenuous or extremely uncharitable. Instead of a posting a glib respo…

I don't think you're getting above DH3 here ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ). Aside from that: I wonder what would happen if all the people in the country who are using …

> "Never, ever say that again. You should always try to relate the situation to something you do know. Saying I don't know just means you're lazy." Series of tubes...

This is why Knuth has stopped writing cheques, incidentally: "Nowadays almost everybody knows that it's dangerous to reveal your credit card number, or to have that full number on …

This is supposedly happening all the time, yet no one has managed to catch it on tape for some reason. I can't think of a credible explanation for the lack of hard evidence (and la…

"Because these people are paid poorly, they have a sense of living on a precipice and will do anything to avoid falling off." This is actually a positive externality (well, dependi…

Here's one: python list popleft Third result is: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html 6th result is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4426663/how-do-i-remove-t... Neither…

I find that I am slowly losing confidence in Google. What I often do is input searches in the form: "general term", "specific term", then click on a link and immediately do a find …

Reminds me of this recent submission: http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633985

I think there are some good nano questions that show A) that you have worked with some piece of technology (or at least read up on it well) and B) that you have some deeper concept…

I remember someone telling me that in Sweden when you move into a place, you can just plug your network cable in, your browser will direct you to a page where you can select whatev…

I'm using the date range search option a lot when I am getting outdated search results. Even constructed a quick search for it, so I can type something like: "gdr 30 things" which …

Oh, I am sure we would have gone similar places without him... eventually. A windowing graphical user interface is objectively easier to use for most people than alternatives at th…