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I think that it's just another herd behavior your see on the internet. When faced with a choice, for vs against, someone would typically choose the crowd. The herd is usually wrong…

damn I know I wouldn't be able to focus on my work if I lived in Thailand...and it's definitely not the women

why?

god I loved playing that game in grade 5 in the classroom.

1) I learned coding in a big way by buying a $1500 Java library with my student loan without knowing Java very well in order to build a software without really knowing where to sta…

So here's the deal. I'm creating a web scraping tool which can be used to scrape whatever domain you point it. It's goal is to be able to do an unsupervized web scraping of any web…

class action lawsuit time.

I rushed home to comment on this project. I got fired the next day. I am basing my project on this. Wish me luck.

okay I'm ready to ditch dreamhost PS for linode if they double the ram. basically linode is offering several fold more than what dreamhost private server is giving me for the same …

we'll forget about him completely after today.

go to hell

Did you also wet your bed and have affinity for setting things on fire?

don't think I would've ever read it without the word Sex in the title. Not a lot of headlines here have the word Sex in them. YC needs a sexual revolution.

I think the actual software programmer job working for a company is different than someone working alone erratic hours, building apps, marketing, selling, and breaking even. It's q…

Also a more interesting question would be, are people working in startup, especially single software vendors more susceptible to depression? Look at Aaron Schwartz guy, all those t…

Heroin helped me beat my bouts of depression, although the downside being extremely addictive which seems to bring you right back where you started but in all honesty, depression i…

All very good alternatives of course.

Everything you've described is pretty stupid. I hope nobody is working on the next Google killer or yeah another Facebook alternative. All the big names were purely by accident and…

Why is it a waste of time? There are plenty of good solutions now like Hipache.

Nice try, not going to point specific fingers at certain environments out of risk getting flamed.

Ah yes. My early days in junior high school were spent trying to infect the school library computers so I could use free internet. Nostalgia.

This, this. Much of our Western culture is centered around the individual and their ideas which must be respected, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, if it's someone wearing hipst…

Yes, quite literally there's more library than we developers/hackers can play with. I've spent a lot of time just browsing through all of them and they are all excellent. But there…

Pretty much the same case here, I've abandoned LAMP stack completely. There's no need anymore, I am tired of having to google how to setup Apache config on some esoteric distro to …

What about for Canadians? Are we left out in the dark again? God damn it.