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This doesn't seem like a good use of your time. I suggest installing an advert blocking program, then finding a more ambitious way to put a dent in the universe.

Is "I don’t read resumes", "I don’t care about your resume", very common? It seems a bit cold hearted and unfriendly. It says to me "I don't care enough to read a bit about you, an…

Given billions of rows of data across a few tables, how do you best make sense of it? My current method involves thinking up interesting questions and writing database queries. I t…

Are there any other countries where the education systems often reach this level of legal activity/deliberation/antagonism? Or do they just quietly get on with teaching students?

What would the ideal policy be? My ideas are: - Students own their own work; even if they don't really care for it. I don't see any value in a 10 year pile of homework, but if you …

"This thinking is backwards. If you care about the reliability, security, and the protection of your data, then you should entrust it to those who are most capable of managing it. …

I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_week and don't see the point of this. It just seems like stressing people out due to poor coordination and time management.

Does Stripe ask for any more information than that available on the card? Normally I'm asked for at least a Post Code, which I assume is part of reducing fraud, through making it a…

I always feel articles such of these should be prefixed with "within my humble experience and within my application area". "Comments are generally only needed when you failed to be…

Would you use a doctor who had not been to college? As you hopefully would not, therefore your argument has a flaw in it, you might like to enumerate the list of professions or act…

Any thoughts on whether this is: * a long term program to mint more developers (and drive down salaries) * to mint more developers to create more websites to display advertising on…

- People may feel there is no content they wish to broadcast about themselves to the world. I don't have a desire to promote myself constantly, I'll just continue being quiet. Not …

I find it's easy to forget many developers are effectively completely invisible online. I guess people just don't feel the need to broadcast information to everyone. So, out of int…

what is "SSO" in this context?

Is "hoster" a valid word? I do not see it listed in dictionary.com. If you hosted a party, would you be a "party host" or a "party hoster"?

How big is this problem? A number or percentage of programmers would help to quantify things. Are all these blog posts about 10 programmers, 10% of programmers?...

As a UKer, it strikes me the US system of health insurance is just inefficient, even if only from a time management perspective. Do 300M people really have to negotiate their own i…

In this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670014 , the commenter described Google as having a 'certain monoculture'. Do developers within big companies (or I guess within u…

The best hosting experiences I've had are with Linode, AWS and Rackspace. Linode for their brilliant custom control panel - a key differentiator between them and those running stoc…

Is there an opportunity for a data driven approach to politics? I would be interested in a service that segmented people into large groups based on their political ideas. A cross b…

Even better, after you consider paying tax on the original amount.

The UK government are introducing programming lessons into British schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16509298 Does anyone have any opinions on how this may affect the pr…

I think whether an open source project improves you, technically, depends on the scope of each project. For example, you could make 100 simple CRUD web applications in the same way…

Sounds like creating a new filter based on open source participation levels and quality. Potentially this is a pitfall, you're excluding brilliant developers who push all their ene…