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Devpressed seems like a really good initiative! Looking at HN's submission history, and from personal experience, I believe such a forum is much needed. As a student or professiona…

I roughly agree with your sentiment, but your last sentence is IMO a bit too rough with the "resort to a bunch of drugs" part. Any psychiatrist worth his salt, will primarly prescr…

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time! Amazing!

I'm using PyPy for real-world code every day, because it runs fast as^H^H^H^H, uhm, very fast! I regularly see 6-15X speedups compared to CPython. That being said, if your code is …

Nice!!

Well, xmonad is an excellent example :-)

It's hard to approximate how long time you'll use, since it depends so much on what ideas you are familiar with, but I'd say that SICP is generally a nice and "easy" read for a pro…