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Valve Time(developer.valvesoftware.com)
1 points by mcantor 17y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 17y ago
I actually found this comment hilarious without the edit.
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by mcantor 17y ago
Great article; thank you for the link. But, from the HN rules: If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
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by mcantor 17y ago
Ubuntu: Now with grape flavor!
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by mcantor 17y ago
Stuff like this makes me really want to publish a magazine called "Citation Needed" or "Articles for Deletion" that would just contain short articles by experts on whatever was speciously put up for deletion that month, just to flip off fec
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by mcantor 17y ago
"Man. This site takes FOREVER."
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by mcantor 17y ago
I find the asininity of this debate exasperating.
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by mcantor 17y ago
I feel like this post, the essay on the phrase "it turns out," and the post on eating slower to reduce caloric intake, all showed up at the same time for a reason. "It turns out, eating slower will help you avoid choking on hot dogs, too."
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by mcantor 17y ago
Sometimes I do this when I tell people that I don't watch TV. I really don't watch much TV, but I rarely say so without feeling a little smug, and thus a little asinine.
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by mcantor 17y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one
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by mcantor 17y ago
Does anyone else find the font on this site almost illegible in Chrome? Maybe I'm going crazy...
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The story of Mel, a Real Programmer from FOLDOC(foldoc.org)
1 points by mcantor 17y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what sort of questions were on the test?
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by mcantor 17y ago
I just want to note how delighted I am by these "data porn" posts that show up every once in a while. The last notable one I remember was OKCupid's analysis of communication success correlated with user photograph traits. Is there a site
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by mcantor 17y ago
I love how, as "Correlation does not prove causation" becomes more and more well-known, it is frequently added on to the end of an article with the basic approach of: "Correlation is not causation, but gosh, isn't it tempting?!"
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by mcantor 17y ago
FTA: "He had previously worked as a systems administrator but was laid off, Interfax said." I find this hilariously ironic. The whole world has the consequences of recession and depression on its mind, so the article closes with this epiph
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Anatomy of a launch post-mortem: What went right, what went wrong(iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
1 points by mcantor 17y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 17y ago
"If you see something, say something!"
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by mcantor 17y ago
It might be instructive if you included why you are trying to avoid Gmail in your OP, so we can avoid suggesting other apps that might have the same issues. For example, do you dislike it because of privacy concerns? Or because it's a web
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by mcantor 17y ago
Upvoted, because I would read that "things you can't do on the subway" article.
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by mcantor 17y ago
Honestly, this can't possibly be appropriate for Hacker News, but I had to upvote it because I was so very delighted. Completely irrelevant to anyone who doesn't read modern comics, though.
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by mcantor 17y ago
Wow. I am so disappointed.
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by mcantor 17y ago
As an avid console gamer, I own a nice TV, but I have had the same "hotel TV" experience. I was at PyCon in Chicago last year, and the hotel rooms had these gorgeous flat panel televisions. In a flash, I realized that I had absolutely no
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by mcantor 17y ago
FWIW, most people don't even realize that phone contracts exist to subsidize the handsets. Most of the time, when I explain to someone that contract cancellation fees are basically just the phone company saying, "Well, can you pay us the r
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by mcantor 17y ago
Frankly, I find this terrifying. So, I'm hurtling down the highway in a sheet metal box travelling faster than the fastest land animal, controlled by hundreds of millions of lines of code, and bugs in this code could erroneously stall my
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by mcantor 17y ago
I would have liked this more if there were some examples of full designs that didn't use images (or used very few).
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Today's read: The A to Z of Programmer Predilections(kevinrodrigues.com)
5 points by mcantor 17y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 17y ago
This sounds similar to the "Hack Day" conceived over at Yahoo!. We shamelessly stole the idea here at AG: once a year every single developer & business analyst takes 24 hours to gather into loosely planned teams with even more loosely
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by mcantor 17y ago
Seriously? 75% of people are on the internet? There are five hundred and twenty five billion people on the internet?
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by mcantor 17y ago
I wonder what this says about the language gap? Are people heavily disinclined to agree or empathize with people and situations expressed to them in a language which is not their most fluent?

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