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On the validity of MBTI, the main use I've found is to use the eight functions as part of my vocabulary. It's a pretty handy approximation to be able to say to someone in conversat…

Common Lisp.

The Happy Hacking Professional keyboard solves this in an interesting way: just kill off all the keys you don't need and use Emacs-style modes. http://elitekeyboards.com/products.p…

This is an excellent thought experiment I genuinely wish were reality. That said, the root problem with standardized tests is that they're inherently hackable. Standardized tests a…

"Must is a free lifestyle photo recommendation app for discovering, capturing and sharing new experiences across the world." "DISCOVER. EXPERIENCE. CAPTURE. SHARE." I'm having a ha…

I've just been using oDesk. I get referrals from these, but bad clients generally aren't friends with good clients. Last year I did a cute thing on HN where I offered to build prot…

I can generally [figure out how to] do anything related to web development and design compelling web interfaces. I can convince people of this and figure out how they can derive va…

Am I the only one who prefers to use Vim bare and just have a terminal open in another tab/window? For some reason having all these plugins weighs me down in a spiritual way, where…

Wait, ack. I used that phrase wrong. I have nothing to say for myself.

Steve Jobs said something I think about a lot: "focus is about saying no." He was talking about what to work on in a company, but it extends without loss of generality to individua…

Still, that just means the long tail is worse, which necessarily happens when anonymity is granted. The best comments-- i.e. the ones that make using the app fun for users-- are al…

Those are the long tail of comments. If VCs judged all user-content services by the long tail of submissions, most wouldn't raise any money. (I realize that might be a good thing, …

While their response is pretty roundabout, my experience with moderating/owning several community sites is that advertisements for competitors really are one of the largest categor…

Oh? Could you please elaborate more on this insight?

What CoffeeScript did was lodge the idea in people's heads that JavaScript can be treated as an assembly language to compile higher-level languages into. I'll bet many programmers'…

Couldn't you have omitted the last two sentences, which amount to a polite version of "we've already made this and theirs only looks nicer because they spent more time?"

This made me smile, but it would've been nice to read more about what he and Dennis actually talked about.

For someone who doesn't get it, why do you need https on websites that just show you some text?