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Re:Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:03PM (#11848272)
"Then I reserved a business-class seat, sent a quick text message to my girlfriend telling her that I was leaving the country forever, and was off."

Brilliant.

Re:I’m Sorry on Friday May 06, 2016 @05:56AM (#11642775)
Good point.
Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:59AM (#11636653)
Wow... good job man. My first experience with programming was QBasic, and that was about 16 years ago. I only did it for a couple of weeks but when I picked up on programming several years later as a young adult, it all came back to me - assigning variables from user inputs, printing on screen, if then else, all the basics. Good stuff!
Re:I’m Sorry on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:22AM (#11636315)
We are supposed to care about privacy, yet people can't stop trying to find out who is the creator of bitcoins, even though this person clearly doesn't want that to be known. I think we are all naturally hypocritical beings or something.
Wow.. I feel super provoked by the question "What's cool about you?". I wonder why..
"Why should the House of Saud govern, and not be replaced by a democracy?"

That is a very, very naive question tho, don't you think?

Re:GitHub is down on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:08AM (#11428964)
Metaphors like that only makes it even more confusing. It's a marketing scam, let's call it for what it is. Servers. They are servers.
Re:I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:20AM (#11420208)
I would probably go with auto-reply as soon as he post something, receive the text message and then edit the reply to something meaningful. Fun read! :)
Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:12AM (#11336265)
It's not like I'm thinking "Ah, just remove that thing over there, move this little thing down a bit and maybe make that thing bigger." I'm thinking "What the hell am I actually looking at?". That's what difficult.

Hope you don't get offended, just being honest. Too many people are spending energy on useless things instead of working on real solutions to real problems. That is a problem.

Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:41PM (#11329979)
You don't have to care about it, it was just pointed out for you a possible reason for the name. You can go on and care about the price, speed, etc now.
Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:08PM (#11315591)
Dude, that site is very difficult to understand. Just saying.
Re:Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source on Friday March 18, 2016 @01:25PM (#11313342)
Yeah, I think you are missing _something_ ;)
Re:Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:17PM (#11291794)
+1
What a sad world
Re: on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:26PM (#11212743)
This is also pretty cool: https://flippa.com/domains/all
Remember kids, stay away from the refugee camps created inside your country.
Re:Father.io: first real life massive multiplayer FPS on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @03:46PM (#11162184)
Just like you, I was about to write a rather pessimistic comment about how obsolete this will be as soon as VR goes mainstream, but I hate being the nay sayer so I will just go along and assume this would be great as a cheaper "hybrid" alternative to join the fun?
Re:Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @12:04PM (#11027642)
Off topic, but who started this "Made with <3" thing?
Re:LSD: My Life-Saving Drug on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:19PM (#11023839)
Ask strangers in suitable environments.
Re:Show HN: A little knowledge portal I've been building on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:36AM (#10980551)
Hi!

Here's just a quick comparison between your version and a version where I changed some small things. http://imgur.com/a/w1bUV

font-size 11pt body width 80%, margin: 0 auto; header height 40px and header > img 35x35px.

Re:Show HN: A little knowledge portal I've been building on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @06:13AM (#10979451)
Regarding the UI, personally, I would shrink things down a notch. It feels a bit "in your face" right now, if that makes sense. Besides that - love it!

Edit: even just changing font-size from 14pt to 11pt is much better imho.

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