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mogigomaon What Causes the Smell of New and Old Books?

The foulest smell of all...

mogigomaon How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds

The games themselves are mediocre, but the trilogy of novels (at least the first two), and the Myst and Riven soundtracks are things I will cherish forever.

mogigomaon Show HN: Variables War, a kid-friendly code playing-cards game

This reminds me of the great game, Ergo: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/55279/ergo

mogigomaon Did plants cause one of Earth’s great extinctions?

The term here, if anyone wants to look into it, is "orbital eccentricity". Here's a table listing the eccentricities of the various planets: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary...

mogigomaon Survivorship Bias

That comic strip is similar to the talk Tiny Subversions by Darius Kazemi at the 2014 XOXO Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

mogigomaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)

Online | Junior Pentester | USA/CAN | REMOTE https://obsglobal.com

We need someone that can program/automate various tools and processes to join our team as a Junior Pentester. The ability and desire to learn about security, and the ability to create automation is more important than pentesting experience. Our pentest team consists of half-a-dozen people working remotely in the US and Canada.

A more complete job posting, including application instructions, can be found here: https://gist.github.com/mogigoma/a5f3c114cf52b7ba594932eb626...

mogigomaon How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire

Quite right. The best description I've seen of this is Darius Kazemi's talk at XOXO 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

mogigomaon Are paper books really disappearing?

I agree, and deal with this by using a Kobo and purchasing books from DRM-free publishers such as No Starch Press. It's not ideal -- the hardware is lacking polish and the book selection is limited -- but it works.