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While links are never impossible, I am ever optimistic and hope that their employees actually do watch out for the red flags they just spoke about on their blog two months ago. "Ev…

I'm deaf, and almost every company I've interviewed at which was going to perform a phone interview was willing to either a) skip the phone interview; or b) perform the interview o…

Using lein2, you can run the following: $ JAVA_CMD=drip lein ...

For some more modern auto-complete functionality in vim, clang_complete is worth a look: https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete . It uses clang for intelligently auto-completing…

As another deaf HN reader: I agree. And in answer to some of the comments saying that "it's too hard", it can actually be quite easy using services such as Universal Subtitles: htt…

Hah, that's a fair approach. From what I can understand, obesity is more about the lack of opportunities to exercise rather than the amount of calories eaten (see http://dc.streets…

That depends, I would be more than happy if they were limited to 20mph. If they were limited to something more like 40mph, I would just make kids stay the hell away from roads: htt…

Whether or not you believe in the climate crisis or global warming, I strongly recommend all proponents of driverless cars to read The Energy Glut[1] in order to get a good idea of…

In his defense, it looks like julien_c is actually French... but the logo is what got me!

Wow, this article has hit be pretty hard as well -- I have been profoundly deaf since I was about three and a half. The fact that my deafness hit quite late means that I'm pretty p…

I second this -- even if it doesn't stop you thinking about work, period, it is usually enough to jerk you out of "the flow", which (for me) makes it that much more difficult to ge…

I wonder whether these guys will end up working on increased integration with other acquisitions (e.g., Instagram, assuming that all goes well with the antitrust investigation with…

This talk[1] by sogrady (originally presented at FOSDEM 2012) has a lot of interesting statistics demonstrating the popularity of JVM-based languages, and how they have been growin…

It was my impression that that was Jobs' way of backing down and admitting that others are right. But I may well have misinterpreted that.

Regarding #1: "Taking their beautiful hardware and subjecting it to Windows users must have been controversial inside of the company. It just didn't seem like something Jobs would …

While I do enjoy the odd game from time to time, I do have a penchant for using IRC at work. This game reminded me of an old irssi theme I used to use: http://irssi.org/themefiles/…

I think that this[1] email thread between Torvalds and various other kernel developers sums up the use of goto in C the best. I find that those who think that any given programming…

I'm profoundly deaf, and wish I had thought of making this post. I've lost track of the number of times I have been put off a product because their only description is in video for…