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No, I don't agree, as I am not in the wrong here. I know you are the admin. You should see all my messages. Also you must investigate, if a single hostile user downvoted me from mu…

Now, now. Don't get preaching to me, on what I should be writing on. This was a very impact full dream to me. And I wrote it then (more than an year back), with no intention that t…

Thanks! Respect you for using your routine account and giving a reason. I personally rarely use down-votes, and would just ignore a comment, if I sense that its written in an earne…

'Uthiye' means 'get up' in hindi. >what grown person calls their mother "mummy"? I do. You display your prejudice by asking the question in such a way. Also your total ignorance ab…

Welcome, friend! Glad to see some people liking it :-)

Can somebody please explain. Why is the parent comment short story inappropriate, as a top level comment on this page? Also it seems to trigger a reaction. I have seen it go upto +…

Downvote! Care to explain, why? Its a near true account of my dream, and I thought it could be therapeutic for some people to read who visit this HN page, as people are discussing …

It was late in the afternoon and we were late. I was thinking to myself ‘Oh God, let today not be the day’. I started to walk faster as I thought this. My wife was accompanying me …

I have noticed some good postings on that hasgeek link I gave in the above comment. Also I think, HN itself draws a lot of India based programmers. At college level you also have t…

If I look at some of the people I know and my own experience, can say that consulting folks get a better deal, when working for Western companies. Also it works out better, from a …

Excellent piece. I have been working from home roughly for the past 4 years. Have worked on my own product alongside working on client projects. I am not very disciplined by nature…

>But life itself is simply sunlight falling to earth if you think about it biochemically Don't you think, that by same extension, car is just Gas/Fuel coming in from a Gas/Fuel sta…

Truly, exercise for Entrepreneurs can't be recommended enough. Before starting my Startup journey in 2006 I was 82-83 kgs (at around 6 feet, its sort of Okay). Went to 88 kgs, and …

This is what I understood (s)he means Scenario: Laptop's price is initially $800 and then increases to $850 before dropping to $825 Design 1: with columns Amount and Kind will just…

>There are more corners, more cars, more trains than aircraft combined at any given time. And the most important thing to consider is getting help. I have to press hard on this: if…

Man, I burn with envy when read such stories of monumental technical achievements. For some reason have always been fascinated by scalability. But so far life has given me the oppo…

>$40 per user...That's an incredible cost. We can assume Facebook is paying for the userbase I think FB's high profile acquisitions are driven by fear of survival first it was Inst…

Sorry for the delay in replying. No I did not, actually. See I was coming back after a while, I had quickly shifted to C++ (after coding briefly in C) in my career, so did not reme…

>7. There is no convenient string type This the reason, which stops me from going back to C. After coding in Java (mostly) for past 10 years. I wanted to switch back to C or C++. M…

>As for achieving `generic' code through static generation using an external tool, I had had considerable success with it in some earlier projects Exactly. I am reminded of Rogue W…

Thanks for this. I had read Derek's post and was uncomfortable with it, and you have articulated the downsides well. I think blog post appeals to a part of us which wants to be ver…

Feel really touched, by the humanity on display on HN. Proud to be part of this community. I am not a US citizen, and don't celebrate Thanksgiving. But still, it fills my heart see…

> It would allow us to more easily control the content quality and guard against pr0n, which would hopefully get us back into the good graces of top tier advertisers I bet this is …