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Last time this was posted " rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665> , Eliezer linked to a related article worth reading as well: Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifi…

Be lives on in Haiku OS: http://haiku-os.org/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3904972 http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-dawn-of-haik...

Pe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe_(text_editor)

I don't know what you meant by tarbaby If you don't know what a word means, the first step is to check the dictionary! "tar baby: a difficult problem that is only aggravated by att…

Dupe from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4044219 The only difference in the URL is the unnecessary "www." prefix. Perhaps news.arc could be updated to treat bot…

Fascinating account, but even more fascinating is the author's consultancy: http://spencertipping.com/zeroconsulting/ You email me with a problem you'd like me to solve. (Be sure t…

How did you guys come up with "MakeLeaps" for an invoicing and quotes service?

I'm confused why Gould came up at all Perhaps Wikipedia can help clear your confusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould "Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who beca…

Clicking the link returns a page that says simply: "You do not have permission to preview drafts." Looks like we'll need sysadmins a little longer.

Amen! For anyone unfamiliar with Glenn Gould, check out these two videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVODxskoHFQ He was perhaps the g…

Wow - didn't realize on first reading that the comment was actually directed to Zhou Tong, who replied that he would "definitely pay attention to every single detail." Forensic's r…

If I did something seriously wrong, I would definitely admit it. Trying to run a financial site without the chops to do it was seriously wrong. Of course, it was wrong of users not…

My pleasure! Glad to hear you found it helpful. It played a large part in shaping my course (and later success) as well.

Steve Friedl's So you want to be a consultant...? ( http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html ) is also a must-read. Not only is Steve a Unix expert (and the brother of Je…

Related article from Science magazine, vol 210, no. 4475 (Dec 12, 1980) Is Your Brain Really Necessary? http://www.rifters.com/real/articles/Science_No-Brain.pdf tl;dr: "the brain …

Came here to say the same thing. Here it is for those who missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuGIgf-ICHM

dr_dank's comment on Slashdot ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66224&cid=6095472 ) pretty much sums up its awesomeness: BeOS was demonstrated to me during my senior year of co…