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Re:I Am Retiring at 32. Should’ve Done It Years Ago on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:25PM (#11990312)
Gotta love when the front page of hacker news takes down a blog
Re:Ruin My Search History on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:17PM (#11873104)
This is beautiful.
Re:Apple cloud services outage on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:46PM (#11826331)
Unlikely but a few of their datacenters are down the street from one another so could be related. We'll know when/if they tell us the cause.
Re:Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:37AM (#11731001)
How can someone doing research on these patterns not have read the most basic/important piece of literature on the subject?
Why is this news? Code Blocks has been around for ages. If they're talking about the latest release the title should be updated.
#firstworldproblems
Re:Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:17PM (#10353716)
Honestly when banks have crappy websites it makes me really feel like the engineers doing the backend work are terrible. I know this is a horrible bias but still if you can't spend the time to make a good website who says they didn't cut corners on security?
Re:The New York Times reaches 1M digital only subscribers on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:58PM (#10335859)
How is this impressive?
You guys should really understand the policy before ripping on it. There are tons of other ways to have your name verified. https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185
Re:Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:45PM (#10320825)
If the sales rep was arguing for you not to use auto pay he is the worst sales rep of all time.
Re:Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:44PM (#10320819)
This is perhaps the most glorious thing I've seen on here in a long time. I didn't find a Chinese visa all that difficult though so I'm surprised to see that on the list of next issues.
Re:Noteslate on Thursday October 01, 2015 @10:35PM (#10316346)
I'm confused how this is so high right now. This really is not that innovative or interesting.