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by jsnk 11y ago
Given that Let's Encrypt is free, is there any reason why someone would use paid service for SSL certificates?
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by jsnk 11y ago
Github's life blood is not just the enterprise side, but its free offering, the community and the huge network effect it has over the open source community. No one is sticking with Github because it has particularly good UI or function
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by jsnk 11y ago
Swooping generalizations, lack of rational arguments against the philosophical claims but rather concerned about the appearance and fashion of an argument. You sure sound like you enjoy reading Derrida </sarcasm>
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by jsnk 11y ago
What a timing. South Korea's Left and Right haven't been polarized in years since South Korea and Japan settled on Comfort Women tragedy. In less than a month, Koreans are now faced with this news that will surely erupt new discus
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by jsnk 11y ago
This is an aside, but somewhat related. Where are you suppose to store secretive environment variables like database password or apikey/secret pair etc (say in Ubuntu server)? Is storing in something like ~/.profile or ~/.bas
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by jsnk 11y ago
Discrimination? Please... Can we not use this word to describe this phenomena? The undertone of the study and article make this situation sound like there's something cynical happening. It's just supply and demand. I am a 5'
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by jsnk 11y ago
> "hellish place like NY" As opposed to what kind of place in Canada? NY was pretty awesome the last time I visited.
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by jsnk 11y ago
Only way I can see this happening would be finger pointing and finding others to blame. Eventually, the problem starts with a few people then becomes inter-team issue. Then higher ups start to get involved.
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by jsnk 11y ago
I welcome these kind of bold predictions, and unfortunately we see this less and less nowadays. Perhaps it's because it's easier to get called out than before with all the claims you make online nowadays being pretty much be set
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by jsnk 11y ago
Whenever I read someone write about UX about anything, one common quality I spot is how negative the writer is about the object in discussion. They all take the tone that they know something more than the people who created it. Have these U
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by jsnk 11y ago
Thanks Garry. I met you once in Waterloo, Canada in 2011, and you convinced me that I should start my own startup. I didn't start one yet, but I will be doing that some day following your advice.
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by jsnk 11y ago
The Best Job Candidates Don't Always Have College Degrees Is there anything surprising or interesting about this truism? There are millions of jobs and millions of people without college degrees with infinite combinations of skill sets
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by jsnk 11y ago
Am I the only one who can't see the scrollbar on the page? Looks like a misuse of overflow:hidden;
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by jsnk 11y ago
> average table, pencil, glass, fork, spoon, text-based book etc. is fairly standard (save for few ornamental details). Except that's the point of the OP's comment. These items actually do not have any explicitly declared stand
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by jsnk 11y ago
Looks awesome! Does anyone know if there's an undo command for `$ letsencrypt run`? I would love to try this, but too scared to do it and mess up with my nginx configs.
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by jsnk 11y ago
Such an amazing game. There's so much to learn from this game still that I think if we took the same basic structure of the game and balance it again, we'll have yet another masterpiece. Even the mishaps in the game like, Stone of
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by jsnk 11y ago
More and more I hear about Go, I feel more convinced that it would be worth giving it a shot. Can you share what the microservices are doing? What are they for?
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by jsnk 11y ago
Well, Apple's laptops, iPhones and iPods have been sold at stores other than Apple store for years. That didn't hurt Apple as a brand at all.
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by jsnk 11y ago
Are there severe government crackdown on coops or something? Why is it that coops never grow up to be something like Apple or Google? I hear about small examples here and there, but they are so rare and insignificant to privately owned orga
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by jsnk 11y ago
I think developers are users for sure, but not all users are developers. There's also a large corporate wing of users for node. Huge companies like Walmart and Netflix who are invested in the technology and want to see Node.js develop
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by jsnk 11y ago
1. I think he mentions it because it is an interesting part of JS's birth. There are some ambiguous things about JS that makes people ask, why is this the way it is? Well, one explanation is that, it wasn't a carefully planned lan
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by jsnk 11y ago
The Perils of JavaSchools by Joel Spolsky ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool... )
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by jsnk 11y ago
I wrote about TR-808 when I did an article on drum machines in college newspaper a few years ago. ( http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/2011/06/01/8761/legendary-drum-... ) Hope you find it interesting.
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by jsnk 11y ago
I cringed when I read "Java Script".
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by jsnk 11y ago
Why is this article redirected from http://mustapha.org/:/popcorn-party to Wired? Is this allowed on Hacker News?
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by jsnk 11y ago
This book looks very close to what my girlfriend is looking for. She's interested in learning bioinformatics and it's been difficult to find a good book that introduces topics in data science in a digestible manner. If anyone know
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by jsnk 12y ago
I think Twitter is the biggest
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by jsnk 12y ago
I have one, but not for online presence. I first got it to learn how to setup a website and I still keep it for learning purposes. First started with html+css. Then learned some jquery to add awesome animations all over the website! Around
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by jsnk 12y ago
Tencent also is the majority interest of Riot Games. Riot Games is the creator of League of Legends which is probably the biggest selling game right now.
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by jsnk 12y ago
Corrupt from Masters Of Deception is black.

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