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haha you crack me up HN. So I get downvoted but the self confessed moderating troll doesn't. That's awesome and for that I give you this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boh92DrYEWs

Hi. Thank you for taking all the things I said out of context. I am going to try my best to do the same despite the fact that I believe this is what HN is trying to avoid, moderato…

> Sigh... :-) I honestly have no idea what you mean by that :). > Are you really surprised about the down votes...? For that post of course not. For the others yes. I can only assu…

To be fair I didn't think I was trolling but I can completely understand why you think I was. I could only talk about things I as knew them to be. Whether that makes me an ass or a…

Thank you for the excellent reply. That was response I was hoping for. I don't know everything and I appreciate you talking on point and not just pressing the down arrow because so…

Oh my apologies I wasn't trying to convince anyone of anything if that's what you are thinking. I was only stating fact based on my experience but that's okay just downvote this an…

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should...

Thank you I did read the post. Python has pypi. Ruby has gems. I'm not going to google the rest but if they don't have one there is no reason why they can't. And FYI pypi is better…

lol so do all the languages mentioned above plus they are prettier.

Oh my why would anyone want to lean Perl anymore? Unless you are working with a legacy codebase learn Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Erlang, Scala, Haskell... in other words run the f awa…

I wrote a Pandora clone using django and last.fm for recommendations. Because of the licensing issues I plan on open sourcing it on github in the near or distant future.

InnoDB. I understand your support viewpoint but both of those dbs are opensource thereby leaving support open. From what I understand when the support comes into play is when you c…

Can anyone say when Oracle is justified? I have yet to encounter a problem the postgres or mysql didn't support but alas I have not worked on everything.

They should be if they are payed for by public funds the same applies to software. Of course that doesn't apply to defense or otherwise potentially dangerous software but the gener…

I'm afraid there is no jump. If the US defaults interest rates will rise but they can't as the market is dependant on cheap money. That why interest rates have been at 0% for a lon…

What's even more ridiculous is that they did it even though there is now a competitor with a better product. Yes they have a much larger installed base but I do believe G+'s non 14…

To be fair without downvoting perhaps your insightful post wouldn't exist and some poor fool would be running around thinking he has two years.

Really downvoters. You think we need more debt and to ignore the the housing crisis? Really?

Wow I never looked at it like that before. Of course if the currency collapses the companies operating in it are f'd. We need to resolve the housing foreclosure mess and stop accru…

Well there are 7 levels of A rating. The US certainly doesn't deserve to the top most tier since there is active discussion of default. No I don't think it actually would but what …

Sorry you are correct the debt is rated not the country.

jellicle is correct the ratings are complete bs. If AAA actually meant something the US would have been downgraded years ago. AAA means there is no chance of default no whatever so…

>It seems really ugly to store derived information in a commit I don't understand how generation numbers are derived information. They are used to find the position of the commit i…

I was talking about the case where the timestamps are off. I don't think there is any way to fix that.

I was wondering how they got along without generation numbers for so long. It was by comparing timestamps and those are unreliable because systems can be misconfigured. How they ar…