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Does anyone know what CPU/clock speed the kindle 3 has? Can't seem to find it with google. Thanks! I'm interested in the possibility of programming on the unit itself. The low-powe…

My old supervisor, an acm fellow, admonished me: stop thinking about the theory! Look at the data! Henri Poincaré said, C'est par la logique qu'on démontre, c'est par l'intuition q…

So, friendliness and trust should also be contagious, as the proverbial smile. Co-operating with someone to achieve something worthwhile - whether productively, as in work; or plea…

Let this be a lesson to you edw519: you make a joke, and both your heroes attack you! Biff! Bam! Actually, I can't imagine a funnier response.

Lionhearted, it has struck me how often you live up to your name; but on that one isolated occasion, you shamed it. I was thinking it would be hard for you to make amends. Removing…

This is commentary on industry gossip; not intellectually stimulating; not what good hackers would find interesting: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I'm commenting to ed…

Another approach is to prevent these - which is how pg seems to describe his role at HN these days, at least for (3) gaming the system - leaving the field clear for the good storie…

EDIT here because too late to edit my above comment I just want to clarify, to distance myself from the recent genius/tragedy submission: I'm mocking the people who criticize the D…

What idiots those Diaspora guys are! All that excellent security consulting, for free! They don't know the first thing about software development! It makes me so mad, I'm going to …

I did a similar thing on my CV/resume (when I still used one): for my interests, I'd just list everything I'd had some genuine interest in (shallow or deep), and added to it over m…

Despite the name, rare earths are actually fairly common; they are expensive and seldom mined elsewhere because the processing equipment to separate them from the ore is expensive …

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - Geo…

You have a point about the passage as a whole. And also, yes, clever wordplay intended to amuse the reader is not narcissistic.

I see what you mean now; you can see it as a point of view change (or as a value-system change.) I feel I've been a bit callously analytical, like the "Life goes on, folks" post ne…

OK, my mistake. I assumed Sun were still great at building processors (and they got killed only because they were disrupted, in the Christensen sense, like Digital were.) I now mak…

Great question, thought-provoking answer. Similar to what the article says, I think constraints can engage us more, by making our decisions more meaningful. We have "If we do X, it…

BTW: please submit this blog post! It's fascinating, and many on HN would appreciate it. I just checked, and it hasn't been submitted before (or, at least, it accepted the submissi…