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I'm confused. it looks like an offer to yc startups...

Again, the plural of anecdote is not data, but I've felt much better since going vegan. I'm willing to grant that may be a placebo effect, but my acne seems to also have improved a…

The China Study is supposed to have taken a more comprehensive view. I've not read any criticism of it (which is why I asked for some). But he cites more than one study that demons…

I've read McDougall, it's what started me on veganism after 20 years of vegetarianism. And I have a copy of the book you mentioned.

He explicitly takes the time to discuss correlation vs causation. But thanks! I'll take a look.

I know this is slightly off topic and I apologize but I'm rather obsessed with the topic at the moment. First, vegan isn't a necessarily a moral choice. I'm vegan and my primary re…

What happened to the OpenID login options? I've been a way for a while and have clearly missed something...

Ah. My bad.

Not unless jquery is going to be absorbed into ECMAscript it shouldn't.

I think I just don't understand a growing population on HN. Since when is programming about building websites? Or desktop apps? Or making money? What happened to ars gratia artis?

The people who would say that are the people who already do.

This is probably the only chapter of that book I really enjoyed. It mostly felt like an "I'm so awesome" series of events. But this was a really valuable chapter. If you feel burne…

I'm curious, what is it that your friend doesn't like?

"it's harder to make a critical, near-irrecoverable mistake in Go" You must not have seen me play :-p

I see the argument that $9.99 is a bad price point for publishers but is there any real evidence that this price is too low to sustain profits for a publisher? I mean... 10 bucks d…

Erm... Is this real? It was posted on "don't believe anything on the internet" day

I despise it when people call me a "techie". Pushes my buttons like few other things. Seriously? Yeah, I'm the "techie" and you're the "widdle manager-wanager"

It's really the politeness that is key. It's the difference between "You suck" and "Your X could be improved by Y" Sadly the tubes are clogged with the former and the latter is muc…

Actually, that isn't what the parent said, and I'm not arguing with the parent. I'm making a point that cursing only maintains it's visceral power when used sparingly, which I don'…

The problem I have with this is nicely illustrated by a (possibly apocryphal) story about John Steinbeck. He wrote to a college paper that was printing an entire page of the word "…

Ack is great

This is strongly reminiscent of Mario Galaxy.

I think chicken scheme is even nicer for that kinna stuff.

The Art of Unix Programming is even a good book! I though can't stand ESR's rhetoric.