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Joining should be moderated by how long you have been on Hacker News, not karma :)

Well, one use is you can access the contacts of your contacts, so it helps you get information about (and get in contact with) a lot of people...

But I agree it seems weird to add 50 'strangers' to your list... We don't know anything about each other really.

EDIT: Although I have seen a few people do it on LinkedIn already, they post message in groups and tell people that they want everyone to add them. They gather thousands of contacts that way, I wonder if it does them any good tho.

He did have a point about the drunk dial app though :D

Whatever you do, don't work too much on side jobs while writing your mémoire/thesis. I have seen many people get a part-time or full-time job when they were done with their project, alas not with their writing. It takes them years to finish the whole thing.. (I've seen 4 years for a master's)

I hope so ! I'm still pondering whether to do a Ph.D. or not myself. Almost done with M.Sc...

Finnish and Hungarian definitely have their place amongst the hardest languages to learn. If I'm not mistaken, Hungarian has 22 cases of declension.

HackerNews->SlashDot->Pwnage->Real gnome dev message

A much more interesting user interface used in a movie was developed by Oblong (see John Underkoffler). I am talking about Minority Report ;) They are making it into a real UI.

Check it out : www.oblong.com

All in all this affair is fishy.

However, it's not the first time we hear from google cancelling adsense accounts and cut all communication. I know it's the user's responsibility to make sure his stuff is clean, but most the time the user has no f*ing clue what stuff he did/does wrong.

Found the original article by Paul Graham :

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

What is the blub problem?

Isn't there something better than flash out there? Flash sucks for linux.

I use three languages commonly : French, English and Russian. I can set the language for non-Unicode programs only once, which means I can't display all programs written with a different encoding properly.

Please just use Unicode.

The concept or way to upgrade it is ok... it's just that it almost always causes a lot more trouble than a clean install.

My experiences so far : 6->7 : System failure, unable to boot 8.04 -> 8.10 : Alright overall, a few bugs to fix (most concerned X) 8.10 -> 9.04 : Better, still a few bugs (info tooltips, graphic card drivers)

The command line really is hard to make up for, without a lot of hassle, that is. When I'm running windows it's the thing I miss the most.

Other than that, it sucks that Firefox is not nearly as polished under Linux as it is under Windows. Same goes for adobe's flash player.

I don't understand how a language designed for document programming can be a good choice for controlling a rover..

Is it a joke, is he really serious about this?

That is one fugly slow website.

Minibosses - my favorite video game music band so far.

http://www.minibosses.com/

One full album available for free on their website, check it out!

Here in Quebec, Canada, Pepsi has the biggest market share :P

EDIT : 59.5% Pepsi for 25% Coke.

1000 wired lists to read while bored

I couldn't bear it anymore past point 15.

By not reading mentalfloss.