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I'm not saying writing this kind of piece is bad. I want to read them, and they are a good reminder that sometimes we get caught up in our little rituals and take it way too seriously.

The fact that I was annoyed was exactly the point. I have my own days where I feel like all I am doing is meaningless, and in those days reading a post like this actually inspires me because I know I'm not alone in this feeling.

Maybe I didn't express myself correctly on the previous comment, but in no way telling you to shut up. Just saying that today you are the one feeling like this. Tomorrow, it will be me.

Sure this kind of posts get pretty annoying. As the author keeps repeating "existential longing" I want to yell "get over it already" or "stop smoking pot".

But then I remember that I have my moments too. It's not everyday, but I definitely have times where I look at the mundanity of programming. Today, making these pages render in a few milliseconds gets me excited, but the other day I was watching a live feed from the international space station and simply switched the channel. Because what's is the damn point.

I don't find these posts meaningless. And don't be too quick to judge. Today it is him/her, tomorrow it is you!

I felt cheated[1], you saved my salary and now you asked for my email before showing me anything.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/qDwJ4Dm.jpg

When you get the one click wordpress install on some hosting companies, you also get a lot of preinstalled plugins.

These plugins only bloat your website.

Is it bad because it's a blog post?

This was quite a good read.

Since this is HN, it may be a good idea to port this to the tech community:

Keeping up with the latest framework

I interviewed at a company that jumped on Silverlight on the very first day because they wanted to be "edgy". One of the interviewers was telling me how they used all resources to convert their enterprise CMS. But now most people left and they are having a hard time finding people who can convert it back.

What I find interesting is how everyone has already accepted that antioxidants are amazing against cancer. Now with this information will be resisted and fought, whether it is true or false.

Every health nut (or enthusiast) praised antioxidants and will hold on to the belief because they already believed it for so long.

We don't believe in facts, we believe in whatever advertisers have exposed to us everyday on tv, radio, internet, and so on.

Eu Cookie law. I think this law passed because it had the word Cookie in it. "Protect people's cookies", no one wants unsafe cookies.

Low sales means last years model is still performing pretty well. In fact, the model from two years ago is still doing just fine.

Here is a post from two years ago where we discussed this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6606056

One of the problems is that facts are usually presented in the most boring ways, think lectures. Facts, should be spread the same way. Using propaganda, using sex, using means as creative as those who decide to spread false information.

Next time you watch a speech by Donald Trump, don't look at him, look at the faces of the people behind him. He is winning them emotionally, not factually.

Maybe all scientists and researchers should take classes in creative writing, fiction, and speech.

If only we could get paid to find solutions, not write lines of code.

I was once asked to create a pie chart of the number of lines of code my team wrote every week. I still haven't figured it out.

Many years ago, I owned a Radio Hub from Westinghouse. It required an internet connection for it to work and I was totally fine with it. I got my weather info from it, set my calendar reminders, and it had a bunch of other small features. Pretty neat!

One day they stopped supporting it, and the whole thing became a brick. I couldn't even play CDs on it because it used to get the CD info online.

Today's IoT may barely work well on a good day, but wait for when a company drops support and you will be left with a brick.

This book is fascinating. Piracy certainly have different meaning in different places.

1. Recently I was reading how in the early public school system, students of a widely different age all sat in the same class.

The bigger kids will learn first from the teacher, and in turn, turn around and teach the younger ones.

At least according to this article, it works. Maybe high school can also benefit from this.

2. I find it intriguing that a professor say this:

Third, it’s fun for them. They can laugh and joke with each other, rather than sit in silence as I repeat information that’s right in front of them anyway.

Usually the teacher is doing his best to get the class as quiet as possible.

he meant, baby don't hurt me.

When you look at code you wrote in the past, whether it is 1000 lines, 3000 or 100,000 you could always think of a way to remove the redundancies and such and turn it into a smaller number of lines.

But the first time you write it, the first time you are solving the problem, it is much harder to focus on that part.

This is not to say that it's ok to have unmaintainable million lines of code application, but more that it is not something we willingly do to make ourselves look more important in a company.

I stopped reading at "Mobile is the future".

Everytime I hear this, its from a clueless manager that saw that most traffic comes from mobile so decided we should put more ads on mobile. They don't realize that the over all traffic is still the same.

Mobile is the future is what made every news outlet create their own app and force you to download on each page view.

It's interesting how in our current time, if you work at Twitter, facebook, google, or a famous start up, it is synonymous to "I made it".

One thing we don't take into consideration is the question itself.

Do Bilingual People Have a Cognitive Advantage?

Is the same as saying bilingual people are smarter. Now a monolingual will disagree because why should someone be smarter simply because they speak more languages.

And the bilingual will feel good about the fact that the question suggest that they are smarter. It becomes a fight about who is smarter instead of any real studies. So far all the paper I read are mostly fueled by this argument.

This something I did and so far has been working pretty well for me.

Look for companies that have contracts with others for short amount of times. The more they send you on jobs, the more website you work on, and the richer your portfolio becomes.

Once you have a good chunk, it is much easier to get consulting work. Sometimes companies I have worked for a month or two contact me directly for more work and a higher rate.

The more items you have on your portfolio, the more people will accept your rates.

ASM or WASM, I expect a future where both of them are included in the head of the document by two different developer and I have no choice but to maintain them.

I thought exaggeration was something reserved to CNN and other news outlet. But here we are.

I think this is a real concern, and users should know what the PC is doing, but half of HN post are about how we can share data among ourselves instead of relying on central distributors.

Your next post should be about how WebRTC steals your bandwidth.

... And we are not going to show you any pictures except a 232x309 small consolidated jpeg.

Currently down so google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w7iPIv2...

I've recently been getting into binary formats and being a JavaScript developer it is very hard to think in binary.

This is the first time I see someone giving a good real world example of bitwise operators that I can understand.

Silicon Valley is Techcrunch's bread winner. What would they be if there were no new start up to talk about every week? and die every week too.

I played music badly for years, never noticed it.

I don't understand why they ask to use a payphone on a government website.

What is the benefit of using a payphone in this case?

Is this why in restaurants, the staff always have a unusual shorter version that I cannot follow along?

There is a culture of not wearing the seat belt as a sign of trust.

When I was in Egypt, I'd get in the cab, wear my seat belt and the driver will look at me weird. "So you don't think I can drive?"

A few years later, the police started enforcing the law and most cabs didn't even have seat belts. You would get in and find a sort of belt that doesn't even tighten, hacked together only to circumvent the law.

Not to say that in the US it is any better. If you wear a seat belt while in the back seat, you are considered weird. It is a stigma that is not easy to get rid of especially for the younger generation.

Side note: I do get some dude yelling in English too. So yes, it is irrelevant.