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Marwyon The benefits of light to moderate drinking might have been exaggerated

By these downvotes I'd guess a lot of you like drinking, huh. Never thought I'd struck your cord.

Marwyon The benefits of light to moderate drinking might have been exaggerated

That's great news actually, and I hope scientist will keep studying this topic. We need less drinkers, not more, even if the dosage is moderate.

Marwyon Cosmos Browser – A text-message-based web browser. Now on Android

Horrible landing page. No information about what/why/how whatsoever.

Marwyon IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 RC Introduces Sublime Text Style Multiple Selections

> Select all occurrences: Shift + Ctrl + Alt + J

Yet people complain about Emacs' shortcuts sigh.

Marwyon This Is How I Work

On the other hand this is one of the best things I've ever read.

Marwyon Thorax: An opinionated, battle-tested, Backbone and Handlebars framework

camus, I'm not sure if you're aware of the fact that your posts are dead. Your last not-dead message was posted 23 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528812).

Marwyon Baretorrent: minimalist open-source Bittorrent client

Does it have categories/labels? Priorities? There absolutely needs to be a features list on the homepage.

Marwyon Only a few countries are teaching children how to think

> First of all, education is obligatory until one is 18 years old in Poland.

I was about to point out your mistake, but decided to actually check that fact, and you're absolutely right.

> There is no such thing as dropping out of school before that age.

I must have slipped through the government's fingers. I'm not sure if it's a bad or a good thing.

Marwyon ADHD Pill Faces High Hurdle in Europe as Stigma Persists

>There is a core of very serious cases, like schizophrenia and some bipolar sufferers, but those are not mental illnesses, they are physical ailments with psychological symptoms. Purely mental illnesses have no scientific explanation, no reliable diagnostic criteria, and no treatments -- which is why the DSM is being abandoned.

What about depression? OCD? Anxieties? Are they "physical ailments with psychological symptoms"?

Marwyon A Real Keyboard for Programmers?

Some time ago I used it to quickly change my layout from qwerty to colemak, and often it couldn't keep up with my speed (and I'm an average typist: ca. 65 WPM), which resulted in wrong order of characters. I tried both interpreted and compiled version - no difference. It wasn't a beefy machine, though, so with your i5s and 8 gigs it may work well ;-).

Marwyon “People simply empty out”

I'm wondering if your reading comprehension is really that bad or there's something else going on with you.

Marwyon Linus blasts again

Can you give some examples?

Marwyon How to work remotely as a software developer

> Work the amount of hours you agreed to with your employer

I was wondering: are there any firms that don't set strict number of hours one have to work? How many of them is like that?

Marwyon Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)

Since he's Polish my guess is Poland.

Marwyon Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?

Can you tell the name of this startup?

Marwyon Chrome now the most popular browser

Opera, of course.

Marwyon Python 3 Q&A by a prolific core developer

I think you should take a walk, and then come back and read this ridiculous stuff you wrote.

Marwyon AirBnb's new site design

It crashed my browser (Opera) right after it loaded.

Marwyon Blazing fast node.js: performance tips from LinkedIn

How do they do that? I can't really figure out anything apart checking user agent (for web crawlers?)

Marwyon A small fast and cute web framework in Python.

I feel like Flask is node.js of python web frameworks. I guess some people just like shiny/new/popular things.

Marwyon Pinterest Architecture Update - 18M Visitors, 10x Growth, 12 Employees, 410 TB

Why don't YOU try?

Marwyon Stop Calling People Morons.

How will you know if someone have read "How to Win Friends and Influence People"? They'll tell you.

Marwyon I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?

You can use Jinja2 with Bottle:

> pip install Jinja2

from bottle import jinja2_template as template

Marwyon I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?

I've seen Flask mentioned here few times. Is Flask better than Bottle?

Marwyon The Haskell / Snap ecosystem is as productive (or more) than Ruby/Rails.

It's not as popular therefore it's not as good. Your logic is definitely valid!

Marwyon CryEngine 3 gives us a glimpse at the future of gaming [video]

What is your point? These games are for fucking i(phone|pad), so you can play them in a train while you're traveling to work. This is entirely different kind of games.

Marwyon Fugu - Procedural geometry with Lua

Wow, the level of downvoting for no apparent fucking reason is astounding on HN.

Marwyon Fugu - Procedural geometry with Lua

It's down for me.

Marwyon In Manhattan Pizza War, Price of Slice Keeps Dropping

They don't have to, but for sure they can. Higher price doesn't mean anything.