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So this is "Hacker News"? i.e. site for HACKERS to hang out? Where stories about weight loss, Hollywood-grade entertainment industry rumors and get-rich-quick speculators routinely…

Yes, making an OS with pre-emptive multi-tasking with a modern graphical UI that could be installed (and be fast) on an affordable family PC with just 4MB of RAM, is "software medi…

emacs and vim are so different from "desktop apps" that you won't notice the difference. Well... gVim is pretty nicely integrated into Gnome, picks up theme/colors/icons, etc. I li…

Why do we need to "save music industry"? The entire "industry" was a byproduct of inventing a way to record sound. Someone with money and equipment (the aforementioned "industry") …

So... what's the point of KDE then? I don't think I've ever seen KDE ports of vim or emacs (only GTK), and FireFox is also GTK... Then there is Gimp, how can you do without it... T…

Hm... I look at this as a history lesson. I jumped on Linux wagon fairly late, in 2006. Since then I had to install it on 4 laptops and 3 desktops, with minor hiccups related to wi…

How do Gnome Apps look like on KDE 4.x? I really dig their improvements, but nearly all applications I use are GTK-based [Firefox, gVim, SqlBrowser]. Do they get the same window lo…

How pathetic. (you, not cuil). Go and make fun of Facebook instead. It's a fucking MESSAGE BOARD WRITTEN IN PHP. At least Cuil is trying to build something not trivial and useless,…

They need to hurry up, otherwise there won't be any developers left to try the new thingie out, only 60+ old ex-taxi drivers who position their monitors facing a corner, fire up an…

1.9 will introduce native threads, which aren't much better. What? They're not only "better", they're actually _threads_, i.e. are able to run in parallel, you know? What are Ruby …

I don't get it. We aren't building any new highways (easy to check) yet our expenses are going up. WTF?!

I upmodded you because I share your wish, but unfortunately what you're asking for is impossible. Both of my parents have been railroad engineers all their lifes, and the main thin…

My wife is a wedding photographer and I must say that projectwedding.com was a brilliant idea.

I think I am giving up on this "hacker" thing, there are just too many possible meanings and different people perceive it differently, thus it makes no sense to use the word in rea…

Does Ruby 1.9 have a web page or something? Ruby's site has very little information on how's the project going, and I am not too involved to follow the mailing lists. Questions lik…

HUGE thanks! BTW, I've been experimenting with web-based software running on a desktop with XUL/WebKit-based clients that run their own in-process HTTP server (I've used CherryPy) …

I've been looking for something like this for a while: currently I use Tomboy on Linux but the UI is too basic. I love your attention to detail: Ctrl+B makes my selection bold - fa…

Daniel, the stories regarding Russian corruption are greatly exaggerated in US media [which, of course, doesn't mean there isn't any]. The book by Phillips explains why: this isn't…

His nick implies, at least statistically speaking, that he lives in a informational isolation and has no access to news, unless he knows more than one language [and uses it]. For E…