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Ah, and I see my original post has been modded down to zero, in the classic Digg-style mob rule fashion. I'm outta here.

The gratuitous U.S. bashing in this thread looks exactly like something you'd see on Reddit (more likely, Digg). Not only is it ugly, it's utterly irrelevant to the nominal topic o…

And yet here you are. I'm curious: what made you decide to move to a country with no freedom, bad education and no culture?

"Exactly who is in Guantanamo or the secret CIA prisons, and why?" Well, not you, and not anyone you know. The mere fact that you're comfortable posting this stuff on a public site…

Wow, for $1,000 per year you could just about buy a MacBook and a copy of Parallels, which would let you create a full library of VMs with all the different browsers and operating …

Err... what does doing math have to do with it? If I have a good (human) assistant, I can ask him or her to find me all the Y Combinator articles and it just works. I don't need to…

As a second source (it's sometimes helpful to hear material from more than one perspective), UC Berkeley has some podcasts from a Scheme course which uses SICP: http://webcast.berk…

Tcl/Tk? For the 21st century? Ummm.. okay.

Chicken Scheme compiles to C. It's also directly supported by SWIG, so it's (reasonably) easy to call functions in C DLLs and the like.

Someone mentioned below that it's working on Reddit. I just looked at their feed, and it looks like they are indeed putting the comments link inside "description" rather than "comm…

Feedvalidator finds a couple of problems, but I'm not sure that they're related. http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss Maybe try generating…

"I bet most people who use/used PHP got there because it was popular" This is fairly accurate, but not quite the whole story. Ascribing PHP's success to "popularity" makes it sound…

Thanks, but I'm looking for instructions for going the other way. The Wikipedia article (at least the one I found) has good information for sending email to cell phones, but that i…

MacBook (non-pro). I'm poor/cheap, plus I actually prefer a smaller form-factor for notebooks; I have full-sized external monitors at both home and work, so the smaller display is …

Does anyone know of a reference list for sending from SMS to email on various carriers/platforms? There are all kinds of resources for sending email to SMS (generally involving sen…

"This is a BUG, not a feature." That's the way BitTorrent is supposed to work, by definition. If it didn't, the client would soon be banned for leeching. If you don't want this to …

MacOS is a nice Unix in its own right, and if you really need to have Linux, it runs fine under Parallels. I've got Windows XP, Ubuntu, and the One Laptop Per Child project images …

I've often wondered how much of the explosion in web creativity can be attributed to the transparency of HTML -- you can "view source" any page and find out exactly how the designe…

While Textmate is indeed the shizzle, this app isn't really playing in the same space. Textmate is a code editor (and a very nice one). Coda is a web design tool, like Dreamweaver …

Netscape, YouTube and PayPal (among others) came out of UIUC.

This guy wrote a basic continuation-based web server in Chicken Scheme (which compiles to C). Might be worth a look... http://www.double.co.nz/scheme/modal-web-server.html

"IT's rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage" Stopped reading here. Sorry. :-)

Hmm... if A players hire A players, B players hire C players, and C players hire losers, how could B players ever get hired? Do the people who think up these simplistic axioms ever…

"Compare that to Ruby, where you can't even get a specification of the current state of the language for free." Err.... http://www.ruby-doc.org/ "What do you use for Ruby on Rails?…

If Scheme will do, Chicken, Bigloo, and Gambit all compile to C code as an intermediate step (which you then run through gcc or whatever to generate the binary). Bigloo will also g…