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I don’t have any links, but a large area around Johannesburg, South Africa was dewatered as a result of diamond mining.


I'm pretty sure that would be gold mining.


Plus, the connection ends around 9pm every night.


Maybe “glamorous” means, “makes you want to drink”.


Of course, the book is _much_ better.


Hollywood was a great look into the production of the actual film, as a nice piece after reading Barfly.



I really like adodson's web game. Check out http://adodson.com/#escape for browser MineField & Flood It.


The UX of this blog post on mobile (HTC One M8, kit Kat) forces a horizontal scroll to read all of the page's content.


update: the non-responsive display was due to rendering of the page in the HN mobile app (by Creative Pragmatics) that I use. Visiting the page in a proper browser proved a better experience.


interesting and useful content. nice presentation. this page will help me learn more about development by enumerating needs that exist and possible solutions.


Here's an informative podcast by the Changelog that interviews a Dart author and a Dart outreach advocate, http://thechangelog.com/121/

tldr; it's more than compiling to JS.


I'm not much of a programmer, but it's great to know about this guy. The diversity link someone posted here [0] is inspiring.

Off topic question about Aphyr's website: the stylesheet is linked to only as `<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css" />` How and why does this work?

[0]http://aphyr.com/diversity


The /css route is being served with the correct MIME type-- "text/css". That's all that really matters, despite the unconventional name.

This is likely a route that aggregates a collection of CSS automatically and outputs it.


Wow. Not only this guy is good at what he's doing, but he also seems to be a great person.

I'm impressed.


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