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> The biggest problem with Reddit right now is that not enough people downvote weak content No the biggest problem is that for the majority of reddit users that 'weak content' is actually what they come to reddit for. It's a systemic pr
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Similarly y'all might find my Chrome extension for HN interesting. https://github.com/tkahn6/hn-newcomments-chrome And if you're interested in using it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kikfikaiccdaabdilg...
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Hey your site is really pretty. Would you mind licensing your CSS for personal use? I'd like to use for my blog (which I will start one of these days). Very nice blog post. After working on a Python stack during my part time job (check out
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> I see this nowadays - people just expect things to work... > When I try explaining to my dad the process for fixing something on the computer, he just doesn't want to do it or can't. He wants a step by step by step process. But I
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For all intents and purposes it's blacked out. You can count on one hand the number of people who are both unaware of SOPA and PIPA and know how to disable javascript.
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Can you explain why you believe this story was appropriate for Hacker News? What discussion was this supposed to generate?
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Also related: http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...
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Also see http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/ http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/index-c.ht... for a bunch of premade themes with previews (warning, second link will stress your browser for a few seconds). I perso
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tl;dr: be homeschool, have academically well-connected parents And yes I am envious.
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> REP. MARINO: I only have a limited amount of time here and I appreciate your answer. But we have the technology, Google has the technology, we have the brainpower in this country, we certainly can figure it out. Wow that is infuriatin
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> Bonus points if the candidate correctly states this as "memorization" (rather than the more generic "caching"). Probably an autocorrect mishap there.
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Pretty sure Ruby has this. File.open(name, mode) receives a block, executes it, and then closes the file.
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What is the advantage of this over zeromq? zeromq supports intra-process pub/sub messaging.
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Off the top of my head, an understanding of internet architecture is probably a fundamental thing to have. IP, TCP, HTTP, DNS, etc. http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Vol-Addison-Wesley-Pro...
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> This year, my New Year’s Resolution is this: I am going (finally) to learn how to code This has been my new year's resolution every year since I was 9.
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Thanks! Helpful as always.
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Can anyone explain why this needs to be a macro? What does this get you over a plain function?
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With regards to the first law, you are either misinformed or simplifying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund#Adalah.27s... With regards to the second law, that is a result of national security concerns. Spouses of Arab citi
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> What I was referring to was the Israeli Law of Return that gives citizenship to any Jew that applies. Also known as Jus Sanguinis with the twist being that one can convert to Judaism. Judaism is a remnant from a time when nation and
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'Palestinian' denoting citizenship rather than race. I can 100% assure you that there are Druze and Bedouin checkpoint soldiers. South African apartheid discriminated based on the race of South African citizens . Israeli only roads because
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The definition of partisan has nothing to do with the US political system.
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Interesting fact: Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement, is getting his masters degree at Tel Aviv University.
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This is a perfect place to post a Vim tip that I think helped me the most in starting out. Disable arrow keys. It's extremely painful for the first 5 days but I promise that's all it takes to get use to it. And it makes huge difference in
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I think I'm a bad singer but good at programming. I also think pot should be legalized and I also think the death penalty is ok.
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So am I to understand that GiftRocket's whole business model is predicated on the belief that giving cash is rude?
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This article is more than a year old. A follow up would be interesting.
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Yes that's quite ironic isn't it. Given that the target audience is hipsters, this only adds to the appeal.
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I don't get the impression that one would need a degree to devise the scaling strategies they're employing. This would seem more the product of battle-hardened experience rather than a formal education.
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Please add [2008] to title. Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1933224
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In order to argue that redis isn't a database you have to first define what a database is and explain why redis doesn't fit that definition. All the author did was assert that redis isn't a database and give 3 use cases. This is just bad wr

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