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As programmers (or more broadly, in the field of computer science) what ethical dilemmas must we (or will we soon need) to grapple with?

I'm a designer, and not too familiar with the command line. I'd like to setup the get-shit-done (https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done) program on my mac. But I don't know what this means: "After cloning this…

I'd like to follow the comments of patio11, pg, and others - but with Google Reader. Is this possible?

I just reread Disconnectinb Distraction and saw this: Note: The strategy described at the end of this essay didn’t work. It would work for a while, and then I’d gradually find myself using the Internet on my work…

Yesterday I bought textmate. Today I'm starting to learn Rails. How should I set up (and what should I know about) textmate to make things as easy and fast as possible?

I've been writing PHP and hosting everything on dreamhost for about a year. I just started learning Ruby/Rails today. I'd like to change my host to something that will (1) support both Rails and PHP and (2) scale easily…

I would for subscribe to Patio's and PG's... and thanks!

larger, more broadly used websites? I'm a designer/developer. I've launched several small web apps, for myself and for friends. But they have all been the type of sites that just a few people might visit on a given day,…

I'm a coder. I can design decently, but I'm terrible at getting things looking beautiful. I've seen Dribbble (which host mostly images, not psd's) and sites like PremiumPixel which provide a few PSD's. But what I'm…

Let's say I'm choosing between learning and coding a web app with RoR or Python/Django. Does the choice affect acquisition chances? For instance, would google be more likely to acquire a Python/Django startup?

most of 300 years? For instance, if I could leave something buried beneath my home today for my great-great-great-great grandson to find, what would make him wealthiest? My current best answer: a portfolio of government…

I just started doing freelance web design and development. My first client already had a domain and hosting. My question, though, is what do you do when a client doesn't have either? What's the easiest way to do it? For…

I don't know how to make a poll. If someone could edit this to add one, that'd be nice.

Imagine this: a mouth retainer with a touch screen built into it, that lets paralyzed individuals navigate/maneuver using their tongues. Does this exist?

I'm in my university's entrepreneur program. For it, I need to "attend a trade association of your industry." Are there any good web startup trade shows in southern california in the near future? (What are HN meetups…

..do you always read? That is, you read their books and articles and blog posts and tweets and so on. Me: Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer.

I don't want to know which one is the best. What I'd like to know is which of these three (1) will put me in the best position to get a job at a startup in the next 5 years, and (2) will also give me the fastest…

..you get appointment reminder to the #1 spot when I search google for "appointment reminder"?

.. better, or differently? Thank you.

create a Wifi-only (in other words, non-3G) iPhone? This would still be highly useful, and would likely persuade millions of cheaper folk to get iPhones.

Say I'm addicted to HN. How might one block visiting HN, without an easy way to unblock it?

Still lots of traffic? Did it get monetized?

I'm thinking about making a calendar permutation web app that helps students plan their classes. It'd work like this: - Student enters filters (days and hours he doesn't want class). - Student enters classes needed. -…

I've been able to hack together a few websites with PHP. But I still have no idea how to write good MVC, object-oriented code. How/where can I learn this? (Please don't say that I should pick another language. I'm fine…