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The fourth option is to pay more.

More like SyntaxOf(C) + subset(Lisp)

I read a study that showed that 2,3, or 4-space indents were equivalent for readability. Therefore, I always use 2.

I think lots of people run Antlr these days. http://www.antlr.org/

I am rather bothered by a lot of the comments here. Have any of you actually talked with Neil about these issues? I have. He's an extremely passionate promoter of high-quality soun…

I can think of half a dozen ways to defeat this, as any hacker could. Seems to me to be much ado about nothing.

I understand your point completely, and I agree. I, too, am an exceedingly awesome world-renowned hacker who has been unfairly treated here. PG doesn't really care, or he likes it …

Actually: Upvote = "I'd like to see more comments like this" || "I agree with this". Downvote = "I'd like to see fewer comments like this" || "I disagree with this".

His reference to the First Amendment is clearly allegorical - is that not obvious?

Well, my version of Hacker News has no "down button". Is my browser broken?

how does one "mod down"? I see only and "up" button. Thanks.

AI is, by definition, the set of problems that are not yet solvable by computers. Ergo, all AI is fantasy. Nevermind that AI has beaten the world chess champ, is used every day for…

Yes, just like a horoscope!

My first computer ran at 87 kHz (!) - an IBM 1401. I wrote a compiler for a Python-like language for it, as well as an Operating System. You kids today are spoiled with multi-GHz m…

The problem, of course, is if the "host" is actually a huge collection of machines that hide behind a single IP of a NAT.

We can hack around the scribd censorship. Everybody who aubmits a .pdf knows it will be converted into the useless scribd format. So, the original submitter needs to immediately po…

Aren't you, then, the Poster Child for this article?

I cant' wait for Flash to be replaced by something fully open-source; HTML5?

Why?

Is this your opinion, or do you have evidence of this (for example, have you asked DK about this?)?

I use this: http://www.pdf995.com/ Lets me "print" a PDF to a file - and that's how I converted it to something I can save on my HD and read at my leisure when I'm not online, e.g.…

They would be, of course, wrong. ;-)

I think you're depressed. But, you're right: why should I care?

Also as an oldie, I'd say my productivity today is the highest it has ever been. How do I keep myself motivated? By constantly being a beginner. I do web programming, GUI programmi…