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Your comment reminds me of Google search, which is also quite simple in front (the UI/usage) and very complex under the hood.

Excellent comment, sir!

Hadn't heard of it; thanks for the link.

+1 on the parent-child thing.

>One thing that annoys me about software culture in general is how, by virtue of being a programmer, people are also political scientists, economists, biologists, chemists, astrono…

>You already have the data I'd use: the text of the comments. Wouldn't that require real AI though? I thought for a minute that NLP (Natural Language Processing, not the other mean…

Cool, thanks.

How about giving an acknowledgement on your page when someone submits a project / news? Did it a couple of times lately and saw nothing after the submit, even to show that the subm…

+1

http://www.google.com/search?q=meditation Some interesting links there. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation

Congrats on the site and thanks. As a guy interested in Go, I plan to check it out over time.

I really liked the Go Tour, which I checked out 3 weeks ago. Then I was a bit disappointed to see that the UI changed some, making it less user-friendly. (Everything used to fit on…

Okay. Please consider setting up a page to collect email addresses of non-U.S. developers for if/when you expand to international later. WorkMarket does that, IIRC.

Is the service US-only? I seem to remember reading something like that on HN recently in another thread.

Thanks. I suggest SWIFT - http://www.swift.com - as another option - if you also plan to offer this to people (developers and/or consumers (of developer's work) outside the US. It'…

How is payment to developers done? Do they need a PayPal account? or other way? Is there more than one way to get paid?

That's an interesting theory. I suspect it is likely to be applicable in many, if not most cases. Related anecdote: a person contacted me a year ago and asked if I'd be interested …

Clear, and a good idea. Thanks.

Heck, I commented in a hurry without thinking :( I did know about stack traces (used so many times), and you're right, of course. Thanks for pointing it out, though :). Now that I …

That's an interesting idea: to only catch exceptions at a very high level (for fast prototyping). I tried it out with this test program: http://pastie.org/4791686 Though it works, …

Check http://www.saylor.org . IIRC their courses allow you to go at your own pace. They offer many courses including but not limited to CS ones, and seem to use Khan Academy / OCW …

Though your comment was not in reply to me, thanks for the above info. I knew about IPython but not about the IPython Notebook or the QtConsole. I just googled for IPython notebook…

>I'm rather impressed that search engines do it so well. I imagine the right approach involves examining the contents of the pages and doing checksums Interesting point. Q: Is it p…