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Incidentally, I came upon this restaurant site. Now that is a restaurant site done right: http://www.porte-sainte-claire.com/#home

10 minutes? What planet do you live in and how much is the rent for a one bedroom? :) If I wait 10 minutes I consider myself lucky, usually more like 30.

Make sure you wget :)

If you read carefully, I think that email was sent after they were supposed to meet at the coffee shop.

It's easy to make claims about branches of history that never occurred. It seems like an absurd scenario where computers weren't widely adopted, but it's not really so absurd if yo…

I wonder why they are not offering ogg vorbis support. Is it just not as popular? Are the files typically larger? Either way, it's a glaring omission imo.

I am surprised Apple didn't sue Finland for copyright infringement.

Agreed. The author has way too much time on his hands.

Hahaha this post is a troll. There's a reason why the expression "feeding" the trolls is popular. Trolls only exist if you let them.

I will argue that simple text editor does not usually equal simple + powerful. Most "simple" text editors (think Notepad) are just plain simple. Emacs seems quite simple to me, act…

The above goes for me as well. You might not have meant for it to be that way, but you just happened to use a pattern of sentences used by people with hidden criticism quite freque…

There's been a lot of comments saying something to the effect of "this guy does not understand the difference between full-time employees and contractors" or "people doing manual w…

string=? :)

Great--they should fix Linux Chrome's full-screen address-bar issue now.

Was anybody else annoyed that the video spent too much time showing the audience/presenter instead of the screen? Follow up/related question: She mentions that the slides would be …

> The 55 miles is still at odds with Tesla though. On their website ( http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/roadster-efficiency-and-rang... ), at the bottom of the article they display a…

Another important point you make is that Clarkson is indeed notorious for being opinionated and biased. The viewer must accept that to watch Top Gear. I think Tesla is over-reactin…

And don't forget: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/karaoke.html In fact, for those that have not done so yet, just read his entire website: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/

Took Fundies a few semesters back and looking to take compilers with him next spring (they cancelled it this semester). Agree with what was said so far.

I don't teach math the way you are thinking about it though. What I mean by math is more like the way of thinking and not specific math concepts. I mean they learn boolean logic bu…

Dear Hacker News, I am currently a student at Northeastern University. Lately (last three or four months), I have thought more and more about founding a company. The next questions…

This has to be one of the biggest perks to being a Northeastern student. See some of you there!