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FTA:

> We constantly have to ask ourselves: are we causing any issues or slowdowns on our customers’ websites? [sic]

The GP's noting of irony (is that correct?) seems to be valid.


Why the [sic]? Customers' is plural and possessive in this case.


Didn't want people to assume emphasis was mine.


> If website backgrounds really bother you

While I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, your wording deflects blame from the site's retarded text contrast to the GP (robomartin).

(no snark intended)


Side note: have mercy on your readers and make the text contrast a bit higher.


.NET isn't a framework?


Seems like ".NET" encompasses more than just a framework, but there is definitely something called "The .NET Framework." [1][2]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

[2]http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851



Seems like the site has become terminally-inaccessible


Yup. You guys hammered it to pieces. WP-Cache is nothing faced with HN traffic. When the dust settles I'm going to try installing Ngnix proxy to do more aggressive caching.


FTA:

> This is why I don't believe in computer science degrees. What you learned 5 years ago may not be relevant today.

CS degrees aren't about what you learned, but what concepts your mind digested and grew from.


Blogspam. Wikipedia's page on Launchy is more useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchy


pieces on the ground? Care to give an example of this?


or maybe it's a gallicism and he means "coins on the ground"?


> Jobs aren't obsolete. There are plenty of jobs. Part time, low wage, no benefits jobs.

The 600,000 the article mentioned were mostly of this type, I presume (not the part time maybe, but the other two).

E.g. Secretarial/bureaucracy type jobs which rarely pay more then $15/hour, and usually ~$10/hour, are quickly being replaced with computers.

> Careers? Full time, living wage that can support a family, full benefits packages? Those are becoming obsolete, and fast.

I wouldn't say obsolete. I doubt they're growing at the same rate of the population, but there are still many fields where building a career is a reasonable venture.


Thanks, he made some strong points. I transcribed the most relevant part:

  If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute them
  You can tell yourself that you don't have the time or resources to do them right
  Then they stay around in your head like brain crack
  So no matter how bad it gets, at least you have those "good ides" that you'll get to "later"
  Some people get addicted to that brain crack
  and the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed
  and they imagine it on a beatiful platter with glitter and rose petals
  and everybody is clapping, *for them*
  but the bummer is must ideas kinda suck when you do them
  and no matter how much you plan, you still have to do something for the first time
  and you're almost guaranteed the first time you do something it'll blow
  but somebody who does something bad three times still has 3x the experience of that other person who's still dreaming of all the applause.
  when I get an idea, even a bad one, I try to get it out in the world asap
  cause I certainly do not want to get addicted to brain crack


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