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> I think you need to be aware that not everyone who disagrees with you or fails to kiss your ass is trolling. ? EDIT I can't believe I've gotten drawn into this. Your use of loade…

mqt didn't disagree with me, and I didn't say that he did. Those are your thoughts.

I've really got to learn to stop posting anything to HackerNews that in any way can be construed as an admission of weakness or vulnerability. I sensed that was the case here when …

my shell doesn't have "units": http://www.google.com/search?q=.003+lightseconds+in+miles

There's a famous economics essay about the size of the firm by Ronald Coase (winners of the Nobel prize for economics), in which he discusses why firms (companies, organizations) e…

FP is the future of programming, and always will be. The argument that many-core will lead to FP adoption used to appeal to me, but then I studied Erlang, and saw that its concurre…

vim can do anything you can imagine, better than you imagined. If only you knew the command... One for me was word completion to match other words in the file (^n, where ^ is contr…

the minutes: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/hparchives/archiv... By what criterion did they decide if a field looks "good" or not? It matters less what you see than how…

Business model is the question: (1) Trade sale to spreadsheet makers. (2) Sell a plug-in to spreadsheet users. (3) Or... let users lead you to a problem that only you can solve. I …

Sorry, that was a suggestion phrased as a question (i.e. I know what isotopes are). I was suggesting a name that signifies operational properties rather than "the" definition of wh…

Deuterated bonds can be up to 80 times stronger than those containing hydrogen. That seems likely to alter chemical behaviour (as researchers found). I'm not a chemist, but it seem…

I have one of these (or had - lost somewhere) and they are fantastic. A real pleasure to use. They fit snugly in hand, and you can drive force into the work. The metal itself someh…

It wasn't planned, and so not anticipated by users, so therefore no community effect. I think the concept is a little like a departmental morning tea.

Just curious, what are some IT founder or comeback stories that you do find stirring/inspirational? I'm always interested in these.

Google could arrange and track etc the ads quite easily I think. They already have Adwords, and they acquired that huge banner ad company, doubleclick. They also acquired an in-gam…

So many people knock Jobs, but I find this commencement address really stirring. It's also nice to read a biblical "Job" interpretation into it, for my aspergers-like enjoyment of …

Scout Oath is similar: http://www.scouting.org/Media/FactSheets/02-503a.aspx The "BRAVE" one differs, because the article talks about such confidence and optimism that one doesn't …

adwords came from overture/goto.com - a separate company. Actually, google stole it, and got their pants sued off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_Marketing note that "a…

Sounds interesting. Can you elaborate on those results? What sort of things went wrong?