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Wow, I just saw this nugget in one of the comments: VI mode for the standard Terminal. Add "set -o vi" to your profile and you get access to same modality and commands of VI. Damn,…

Hmmm. I don't think that a completely profile-less site would work. Users would be too worried about meeting a weirdo, someone they found deeply unattractive, or someone with highl…

OpenOffice.org: Calc (spreadsheet) I keep a running cashflow listing with a row for each day and columns for each of my major accounts. Plus totals and a moving average. Along with…

Yeah, I agree with you. Given the great talent in the Asian region we're sitting on a people gold mine. Also given the already short-supply of housing it would invigorate the prope…

Well actually the labor government in Australia is currently reviewing the migrant intake policies mentioned in the main article ... http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/18/business…

Through HN I have learnt that sophisticated discussion with a large number of participants is achievable. Which, up until this point, is something that I didn't really consider to …

This could be an attempt by companies to become more efficient by replacing positions in HR and Support with software solutions. So while this might be representative of the SaaS i…

Well by "corrupt" I mean to alter it from its original form or intention. Probably not the best choice of words I must admit. "Decoupling" is a very useful tool. I think Joel's poi…

I find that unit testing can really corrupt a program's structure. Especially dependency injection which takes a normal top-to-bottom flow and flattens it out to a degree that make…

Adventure. Although it isn't commonly ascribed to people now days, throughout history it's been quite common for a young man's life choices to be driven by their desire for adventu…

I don't understand how this would work. If you had a form of currency that was continuously losing value, wouldn't you simply exchange it for something equally liquid that wouldn't…

I don't find this at all. Most of the .Net tools and things I use are free and open source: NHibernate, Rhino.Mocks, NUnit, CruiseControl.Net, NAnt, Wix, Windsor, Quartz, log4net. …

If it's an investment property the tax advantages are very nice. Deductions for interest, depreciation, insurance and maintenance can seriously add up. Add rent to that and the yea…

My take: If you are starting a business which will make a profit from the outset, in which you have complete control: - After a while you may want to do something else other than r…

I'm wondering if there is anyone here who could refute the claim in this article: that once a chronic procrastinator, always a chronic procrastinator? Someone who has managed to ov…

I'd be happy to pay for Rescue Time and Hacker News, but having said that I'm not sure that I would pay for either if I hadn't used them for free first.

Cool. This has come at a good time for me. I've been working on a problem where I've been going down quite a few dead ends. Conceptually the problem shouldn't be that hard to solve…

"Maybe it is only my problem because I frequently don't sleep very well and on some days am almost too tired to work." If I was you I'd see a doctor about that. Motivation, focus, …

# no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no # no. fuck no. I am a fucking # moron. I love this comment. It reminds me of the times where I had been banging my head against a problem for a whi…

Ahh, but was the diagram created while procrastinating, or is it actual work?

Really nice. It does suffer from a lack of keyboard shortcuts. Just for simple things like holding down shift while drawing an oval to get an exact circle. I can't see it replacing…

I've always wanted to be able to write notes on top of emails I receive. So say I receive an email about a new bug, I could just jot down more details into another layer on top tha…