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Also, the @-tweeting is easy to ignore. Yes, you have to check who is replying to you a few more times than you would have, but it's not the end of Twitter.

Where you can see the real problem is when there are trending hashtags that spammers get a hold of... spammers grab hold onto a hashtag and keep it artifically trending long past its relevance.

I think this was in referrence to adding "reset.css"[1] as your first css file. It is very "black box," as it is something that you add but never modify.

[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

I think they are combined into one. This post is asking for the keyword REMOTE, search that to find remote positions.

It is funny that this feature has yet to hit google. I am wanting more and more the ability to sort my google results in chronological order. I recently got a iMac and would love to see the most resent article on how to do things and not ones from 2008!

>my first post to Hacker News

You mean you were downvoted because you said "I agree!" and had to start with a karma of -19?

Doesn't sound fun!

Just had to give it some time. It is up there now.

But I know what you mean... the MyNook.com still isn't live. Really puts a damper on the excitement.

This reminds me about the discussion Canada was having where it is illegal to announce election results until all polls are closed; people were questioning the right to tweet results before all polls were closed.

Twitter really changed the game for information distribution and I am surprised that we are now just talking about the ramifications. News entities, countries, people all need to understand the power of Twitter and find ways to fix the current system and not just sue where things are broken.

    > Local news website

It is funny you mention that. I feel as though I have almost forgotten about my local news until recently. Now that I watch the majority of my TV through either Netflix or Hulu, I never catch the 11pm news. I don't subscribe to my local paper, and never went to their website.

I find it amazing on how disconnected I was with anything happening in my current area since all I read was national news or tech websites. I recommend everyone taking a look at their local news website at least once a day to keep up with what is happening around you!

I think having to short out a sensor on your computer because you changed the hard drive warrants such a story.

Luckily for you, you used a SSD and don't have to worry about cooling... What about the people wanting to add a 1TB drive or simply needing to replace their dead one?

Unfortunately, there are too many standard programs out there that need Gnome to run. I can't see Ubuntu using XFCE but still requiring Gnome installed; for newbies that would not be worth the effort. XFCE has a steeper learning curve than Gnome for people coming from Windows.

I don't think it was meant to be "ok" but more in line with the last ditch effort. Older companies might feel as though they have pulled all the stops and this is their last effort to make an impact.

I am not saying it is okay, just trying to shine some light on what I think yanw meant.

Some good comments on this topic can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2535006

Really? Is this because you do not like Disqus? Or is it because you are commenting more on websites like Hacker News instead of commenting on the original articles?

I have found myself much more interested in commenting on Hacker News than any of the articles I read here. The only exception I can think of is when I need to comment to the author of the article and it is obvious that they don't read Hacker News.

As for the popularity of Disqus, I see their commenting system everywhere today! And I have to admit, I think the world is a better place for it.

"There's nothing ironic about a skeptic being wrong if he admits his mistake when presented with evidence to the contrary." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

A bit of a sensational title. With all the discussion on Hacker News lately about ownership of the company, this is interesting. Gave a majority of non-voting stock to MIT to get company dividends. That is all.

Interesting way of donating your fortune to a school.

What benefits over the 10.04 LTS does this release have for the server? All I am hearing about it Unity, have you seen an improvement?

Thank you for being the first person who downvoted me (assuming) and writing why you disagree. I come from idea that this person wanted to join Hacker News; didn't understand the community; didn't find the rules and regulations right away; and has been scared away from the community by crazy downvotes.

How many downvotes does it take to kill a comment? This person is forever lost to Hacker News...

Karma is currently at -18... lesson learned.

<edit> Touchy tonight are we? I was just pointing out that it might not be in the best interest to downvote someone into oblivion on one of their first posts to Hacker News. With the green names indicating new people, we have the ability to show them the right way without killing his karma and motivation to post here. Random42 pointed him in the right direction...

Very linkbaity title. First sentence gets to the real point of the article:

    >>I've found, contrary to what you sometimes read,
      that learning Python and Haskell has not improved
      my programming using other languages.

This is more about his personal experience than any hard facts about Haskell or Python making the general population a worse programmer.

The only issue I see with not being able to see the scores of comments is that joke or off-the-cuff comments are probably getting a lot more points.

If there was a comment that made me laugh (while sticking to the point) I will be more likely to upvote it, but if it already had 10+ upvotes a laugh on my part probably didn't justify another upvote.

Right, but I am not sure how a POI database has any sense of copyright-ability. Feist v. Rural states that a collection has to have a minimal requirement of creativity.

Foursquare and its venue classifications are probably can be argued for, but strict POIs are probably not.

All in all, I have to say thank you to SimpleGeo though. This is a huge step in the right direction.

How about a write-up on how to get prgmr up and running? If it doesn't take a super sysadmin, it might be nice to see the process you took.

You can also instantly search for dupes. Keep the hashes in a database and just check before accepting the submission.

(This has always been an idea I was thinking about; nice to see it implemented)

ick... 21 URL shortend DIY projects from other websites with no indication as to where the link will send you.

I understand shortening your URLs for Twitter and sort, but this is just silly.

The article is about setting up landing pages for different web campaigns. I would assume that you would be selling something on these landing pages which would require additional clicks to get.

I agree with the first original comment, are these the best idea?

Don't you know that having a plus sign in your email breaks half of the websites' regex.

    "There is an invalid character in your email address,
    please try again."

MrBrown, I don't know if this is your service or not... but please don't make me sign in to Foursquare and not allow me to try your application. You can take my email and tell me when you are ready, but it scares me to have just given you authorization to Foursquare for no apparent reason.

Signing up worked when I got back home to a modern browser... Maybe it was a bug or maybe it was IE6. Thanks.

I get an error:

    {"error":"not_found","reason":"no_db_file"}

when trying to sign up. Too bad, this seems very interesting!

Right, I wouldn't mind the first option. I'd almost expect it, but there is something about giving me ads from things completely unrelated to books that gets me.

Not that it's a big deal; I will not be using this option. Just wanted to make a point of concern for when a website over-reaches its verticals.