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I am working on an application that might touch some legal gray areas in occasional circumstances. I usually skip any Terms & Conditions for 99% of the stuff I sign up for on the web. There are three reasons for…

This is a question mostly geared towards helping my own programming style (and of course maybe yours, by example), so if you can please reply to give me some input, that would be great. I'm writing a Javascript calendar…

I ran across this Reddit story: http://www.reddit.com/info/6n7k3/comments/ And enjoyed both the article and the commentary on people's own bug troubles. Do you guys have any of your own stories (preferably as detailed…

Over the past few days, I've seen more inflammatory articles on politics, global warming, and so forth. While in moderation this may be fine, I think my peers on Hacker News will agree: that does not qualify as "Hacker…

This is why we love startups, right guys?

Some interesting remarks on Reddit as well: http://reddit.com/info/6inwx/comments/

This should shut up the people who bash Flash because "it won't work on my niche Unix offspring."

I was reading the Slashdot article on Google's new "deep search" (http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/16/2052206.shtml) where it submits forms and sees what the results are. This is a quite insightful and interesting…

I know there are some YC startups which decided on the very last possible day to apply (that's today!) to apply. Thought about doing a startup this summer at all? Make the leap of your life. It doesn't even take an…

I remember reading a Steve Pavlina article a few years back about income. His claim was that it's better to diversify your income in the sense of decentralization. That's why a salary could be a lot more risky than…

http://www.therobert.org/stuff/tools/grapher/ Found this little tool lying on my server from a few years back when I decided to learn GD one night (and was still hooked on PHP). I needed some graphs and figured I'd make…

I just recently found out about the Teledesic initiative of the 1990's to provide high-speed wireless internet acces to every location in the world. It apparently only cost $9 billion, and I was wondering if anyone has…

I'm thinking of founding a startup soon, and my hacker girlfriend would be an excellent addition to the coding team. In your experience, have you found you have any sex while founding a startup, and if so, do you wish…