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>Even easier than being a fanboy is to Easier? How? Because you said so? >promote one's own superiority via dismissal How come I haven't noticed that it isn't working, then? >sneer…

Getting stoked about trivial stuff and mistaking stunts for real achievements is one of the ways we will end up in Idiocracy. I see here, a whole generation of people reduced to a …

>Like what? Look around. If you don't see it already, I won't be able to make you see. And what does the transistor has to do with the period we live in? I mean, right now, not 50 …

>I find the level of criticism for SpaceX on this site to be incredible. This has to be the funniest comment I have seen today. There are more than one post regarding this event wi…

>diminish amazing things.. Sorry. We are living in a period where mediocrity and even complete fraudulent stuff is hailed as profound and "amazing". People with differing opinions …

Ok. Can we have less of Tesla/SpaceX posts. There is already one discussion about this in the front page...

>concepts of love/relationships/family/jealousy/cheating I share a similar view, But our current set up won't allow for something like that. When you take out those concepts, you w…

Have you looked at processing.js http://processingjs.org/ You can put pixels on screen, draw lines using simple functions and later do 3d stuff in it...

Less about Qbasic and why it is still the best and more about a parent bragging about their kid doing stuff with computers so early. I mean, just make the title "my kid wrote a tex…

How did you find it out?

Young kids easily grasping things is interesting. It is also commonplace...

Some guy brags about his son..

What all languages have you worked with?

My argument is that there is no line...

It is terribly depressing for many people to admit the reverse also. That money cannot buy happiness...

Money cannot buy happiness, if you don't know what you need, or what you need cannot be bought. I am not saying that all cases of human suffering falls into that category, but a lo…

Sorry, that is nothing new, and it proves nothing. If money could buy happiness, they there would be zero cases of rich people killing themselves. Your argument is like saying a ca…

Yes. Nature has given us needs that needs to be full filled, like thirst and hunger. There is also higher level needs, like need to fit in and seen as a desirable mate. What do we …

> PHP is not at fault. Well, it is the fault of Php's shared nothing model that throws everything away after each request...

>the hackers can use their position to install malicious code on the devices or to surreptitiously monitor the comings and goings of the owners Do we really care? I made this post …

"The world is a business" clip from the film The Network... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKkRDMil0bw

>I think your being downvoted because the techies on hn are concerned with security, not ownership. I made this post last day [1]. It received 3 votes. https://news.ycombinator.com…

>so long as the two are hardwired and one or both are programmable, there's no certainty. I don't quite follow you. What I meant was something like this. Connect the LED in series …

No, not programmable. That was what I meant "hardware indicator". Maybe I should have said "hard wired". If the device is active (even if there is nothing receiving the output), it…

If your gadget contains a mic or a camera, provide a hardware indicator (for example. A small led besides the camera or mic) to indicate that the corresponding recording device is …