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by Sandman 13y ago
In 1940s the term "hipster", it seems, stood for a person who was cool, "hip": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29 This might interest you as well: http://en.wikip
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by Sandman 13y ago
I didn't even know I was a registered member of Adobe's site until I received their password change email a couple of days ago. I don't know when I registered, it must have been at least three or four years ago while I was in
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by Sandman 13y ago
Wrong. The guidelines aren't that clear on what hacker news is , but they're quite clear on what hacker news isn't. Just because people upvote something, that doesn't automatically make it hacker news. Having said that,
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100% basic broadband coverage achieved across Europe(europa.eu)
1 points by Sandman 13y ago|1 comments
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by Sandman 13y ago
True, but I couldn't find it on the next five pages either. If it had received so many flags, it would have been autokilled. But it wasn't (and still isn't) [dead]. The first thing I thought of was that there may be a bug in
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by Sandman 13y ago
Off topic: This is strange. This story was posted an hour ago, it has, at the moment, 24 points, yet I can only see it on /newest. It was briefly on the front page, but now I can't find it there. There's also no sign of it on
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by Sandman 13y ago
Not if you teach your children critical thinking and to base their opinions on something provable.
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by Sandman 13y ago
I really wish this is the last time I see a comment like this on HN. This is nothing but an angry, sarcastic rant by somebody who, I can only presume, had a really bad day. There is absolutely nothing civil in this comment. While I complete
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EuroClojure 2013 programme published(euroclojure.com)
1 points by Sandman 13y ago|0 comments
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How group sex will liberate Iran, China (salon.com)
7 points by Sandman 13y ago|0 comments
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Top Github Languages for 2013 (so far)(adambard.com)
6 points by Sandman 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 13y ago
Why is it not clear? You pay for the license. The license grants you the right to use the binaries, and to inspect and modify the source code. If you don't pay for the license, then you do not have the right to use the binaries or
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by Sandman 13y ago
I don't know where you got that. I never said that it's not normal for women to want to do programming. I only said that it may be that most women prefer other professions. Just as most men prefer other professions than being, for
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by Sandman 13y ago
The suffrage movement was certainly right. As is encouraging women (or for that matter, any person, regardless of gender/race etc.) to become programmers. I'm just saying that we may have to accept the fact that different genders,
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by Sandman 13y ago
Agreed. I always wondered whether one of the main reasons why there are less female than male programmers is that, well, most women simply prefer other professions.
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Clojure Cup rules announced(clojurecup.com)
4 points by Sandman 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 13y ago
Not compatible with Firefox. Too bad.
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Greenland’s ice sheets are disappearing faster than anyone predicted(rollingstone.com)
151 points by Sandman 13y ago|102 comments
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by Sandman 13y ago
Not directly related to the article, but it seems to me that a really big difference between McDonald's employees in the US and those in the countries of former Yugoslavia is that in the US, McD's employees are young people who ei
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The genetic breakthrough that could revolutionise medicine (independent.co.uk)
1 points by Sandman 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 13y ago
That's not really true, there are VCs. Crane [1], for example, is a network of angel investors in Croatia. [1] http://www.crane.hr/
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by Sandman 13y ago
And I'm surprised you made this comment. I'm no fan of Oracle, but they've done a lot more for Java then Sun did since version 6 came out in 2006. Actually, I'm interested in why you feel this way, would you care to elab
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A TypeScript & Alt JS Grab Bag(brehaut.net)
2 points by Sandman 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 13y ago
Sure, you can reverse engineer a piece of software. But that's working around an obstacle. The point of free software is that there are no obstacles which would impair your ability to inspect, modify and change it in any way you see fi
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by Sandman 13y ago
If it bothers you, take the bigrss feed here and put it through an rss filter to remove the articles you do not like? This doesn't solve the bigger problem, namely, that posting countless stories on Snowden is really killing HN. Seri
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Counterclockwise standalone Clojure IDE release candidate(updatesite.ccw-ide.org)
2 points by Sandman 13y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 13y ago
I'm really, really sorry that most of today's developers (it seems) consider checked exceptions to be a bad practice. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world still advocating their usage. I'm currently wor
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by Sandman 13y ago
Attracting mates, scaring off predators?
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by Sandman 13y ago
The article is a rather obvious satirical piece.
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by Sandman 13y ago
Novel idea? What novel idea? There were apps that showed you bars, fast food joints etc. in your vicinity before. A lot of them are free, too.

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