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It would be ironic if the Mercurial server were saturnine though.

Please do this! I am always so intrigued by systems, but get intimidated by just how wide and deep modern operating systems are. The world needs more technically informative podcasts. I'm a huge fan of the format, but most podcasts I've listened to, even technology ones, have been very fluffy.

Done. Don't ask me how I did it, but you will never see that hash come up again naturally during your lifetime.

This could be the culprit: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disrupt-to-bullshi...

Ever since I meet this man, my life is not the same.

I'm not who you replied to, but here you go: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103112...

Apple used to allow that (well, developers figured out the right URIs to use), but they broke it in iOS 5.1.1 or 6 IIRC.

This is common enough on SO to have a name: the XY Problem.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy...

I agree with the first commenter on the link. This is quite a reach. It's unlikely that the order to take down an old, unmaintained site would have come from someone who's in on some sinister agenda to revise history.

I didn't ask for podcasts that will, by themselves, make me a better software engineer. I'm just looking for ones that are more productive than just listening to music in my car on the way to work.

Thanks! I'll take a look at all of those.

Your comment demonstrates the subjectiveness of the "right tool". I personally have no problem coding on a laptop, and even find myself more productive with the MBP's trackpad than a mouse. While I don't like working on the iPad, I can imagine somebody having as different an opinion on that as between your opinion on laptops and mine.

Facebook will be releasing theirs in a few days, apparently.

HN comment pages would be pretty darn empty without well-actually comments.

pg, when will HN be getting hashtags? This is an essential feature!

This is exactly the reasoning I've heard from people at Facebook in the past week for why they don't release a transparency report. They said that any report they'd release would be complete bullshit because of these FISA requests.

The number of people that would need to cooperate to keep the existence of this type of code secret is unfeasibly high. It's much more likely that the NSA simply has the companies' TLS keys and can intercept "secure" traffic. They then would have the technology to put in into a structured format and enable querying over the sniffed data.

This is the thing that gives me a bad feeling about Kickstarter. It seems like the site and its project creators are preying on those who are willing to lay down money based on hype without being adequately compensated for the amount of risk they're shouldering.

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Obnoxious.

I'm going through this same process of admitting failure right now, and it seems like everybody gives people in our position the same advice: "Don't worry about the investors. They knew what they were getting into." In our case, this is simply not true, and we can't be the only startup in this position.

All of our funding so far was raised from my personal friends and family. None of them ever invested in anything even nearly as risky as an early-stage startup before, but they trusted in me enough to take the leap. I dread the day I have to tell them that they aren't getting their money back just a few months after sending optimistic status update emails telling them all about our user acquisition efforts and new product developments. It is very difficult for me to not think of our failure as a betrayal of their trust. I intend to pay all of these family members and friends back with my own money, but until then I can't imagine escaping this guilt.

Has anybody else gone through a similar thought process? How did you deal with it?