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You seem like a nice human being, truly wishing death upon someone because they find your precious sob story hokey is the hallmark of someone who is empathic and mature. EDIT: Oh w…

As long as we are dictating what other people should be thinking about here is a quote from the late great James Baldwin I think you should mull over. 'Sentimentality, the ostentat…

I'm unmoved by this sentimental drivel, and I think your urging to "please pause for a moment and ask yourself why" is the most pompous thing I have read on HN.

What logic? What are you talking about? The US is above Israel on every sub-index. Besides it is obvious that it is relative to population because in absolute terms the US would fa…

There is an index that tries to measure innovation called the Global Innovation Index ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index_%28INSE... ), interestingly Israel come…

> half the technology you and I use everyday would not EXIST if there was no Israel. Could you back this up?

Why is this upvoted? It's clearly wrong, those are syscalls to the windows kernel.

If you need that big of a crutch then you shouldn't be attending university in the first place.

> no matter how much more educated you are then this simple peasant, she knows she can humiliate you Education doesn't make you superior to anyone, and calling an honest worker a "…

Reminds me a lot of http://www.kaninkul.com/games/773/copter.html , both great games.

Isn't it a bad idea to retrieve any url since then an attacker could use this service to sql inject without leaving his IP on the victims log?

When you know you could save pages of code with it, being without proper higher-order functions is beyond tedious.

Then you should avoid the word fuck instead of bowdlerizing it.

This is the internet, you can write F.

So after two years of planning they drop half the case after just one day in court?

Yep, PKD is something special alright.

There are a lot of smart people on reddit, dons, cgibbard, sigpfe and slava_pestov to name a few.

I've also been interested in DSLs and found some very cool code samples implementing an EDSL (embedded DSL) for describing shapes. I have looked at it countless of times for ideas …

Wide brush generalization supported by an anecdote and a hypothetical situation... pass.

With tools like this I'll probably remain unemployable indefinitely as anyone with a subscription will find my quaint short stories. Written at a time of youthful tribulation they …

My first programming language was mircScript, and I turned out okay.