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I've kept a diary of sorts most of this year. Every night before I go to bed I try to fill a notebook page with all my thoughts from the day. Think about what I want to do tomorrow…

I took a look into Hacker News hotness algorithm a month or two ago, and it is way more complicated than just points and time. Youtube videos probably don't rank that high compared…

Normally I lurk and don't vote. But this is worth people's time to watch.

You are totally right. For somebody like me who did learn from W3 initially though, those first class functions are conceptually and in practice "inline" functions. If you are talk…

A rambling side note: If you come from a javascript background, you will have a leg up on most people in terms of learning clojure. You get used to inlining functions pretty regula…

I am a student and I worked with publishers last semester for a while to get interactive electronic textbooks published. I got to view things on the inside and what I've concluded …

Well, what's your goal? Why do you comment on Hacker News so much? Do you do it to give back to other hackers? Is it to promote yourself? Do you do it just because you enjoy it? Pe…

Oh also use scriptsrc and jQuery UI some. Saves time and headaches.

My path so far with javascript (with examples!): Desire to make neat web pages. Learn enough jQuery so that you can make something move and change colors with maybe two lines of ja…

Neat! Good answers. How do you make money though? Who is paying for what?

Devil's advocate: Reddit is getting better at the trolling with confirmations from moderators. Reddit AMA gets a surprising amount of important people to pass their way. And techni…

I am guessing anyasq is a YC company that just launched? Rationale: Harjeet doing an interview at a relatively unknown company/project. Also, how does anyasq beat reddit ama?

Yeah, it seems like it would be considered bad taste if you kept working on the project but no longer open sourced the results.

Stark contrast to startup accelerators/incubators: Everything must be triple-y open sourced. Profiting from the idea is fine but not required (or even heavily encouraged). No equit…

http://www.wdyl.com/#lolcats reveals that there is a patent with the word lolcats in it ( http://www.google.com/patents?q=lolcats ) But besides that and "Scour the earth for lolcat…

Keywiz made me realize I know absolutely nothing about emacs.

That is how emacs has felt to me. There was a large amount of upfront learning, more than there probably should be for this example to make perfect sense, but after a few months wi…

That looks terribly depressing to me. Just saying.

What about Socket.io? Heroku points to this announcement and it looks like the sort of thing that could function similar to Websockets. (I just started with Node so please forgive …

Thought: my linear algebra teach this past semester told me that some of the greatest mistakes in mathematics came from people assuming something was obvious without a proof. After…

Feature that would be useful: When tumblr goes down, redirect to the backup pages automatically. Sort of like a just in case for tumblr. Would be worth the money for most businesse…

That sounds like an excellent problem to have.

1. I have no idea what this website does, but it sounds like it is web based security checking. 2. The web site is down. Potential Delicious Irony: Somebody took down ThreatSim wit…

Disclaimer:I am not on your level nor was I in the past. I am a 20 year old student who hasn't really accomplished much compared to what you have done. You sound like you are rocke…