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I've heard the same from the lawyers I know as well. Suddenly, being an IT professional doesn't seem that bad...

Heh. It's ironic that XML was designed to represent text documents, but is now mostly used to hold data. Maybe if they had named it eXtensible Table Language, they would have entic…

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Emerson That is, using div vs. table or vice versa, just because you're "supposed to" strikes me as being contrary to the…

Well, there's democracy and then there's mobocracy. Democracy says that this place is peopled with hackers and if the hacker citizens upvote a story then it is, ipso facto, of inte…

Damn! That's why I can't get into Twitter again!

Hmm... does ballet count as social hacker news? No? Oh well, I can link to several sci-fi book reviews on Amazon instead. (Move along. Nothing to see here. All of you redders and d…

I didn't have a problem with the layout, since I tend to use lynx. I thought it was a shame, though, that the author isn't a better writer. The content is fascinating, but it took …

It did suddenly stop - because it hit a wall. The first one gave him absolutely no resistance at all. He just picked it up and threw it. Also, those have to be cheapest cube walls …

Yeah, strange how the monitors didn't have any cables attached to them. I'd expect the computer case to hitchhike for at least part of the ride.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Come again?

And yet we have a sensationalist article about brain surgeons' cell phones shoot to the top spot? Good luck getting people to be picky.

Yes, but the more important question is: do urologists keep their phones on their belt or in their pockets?

You can get all of that by using mod_rewrite/mod_fastcgi/mod_wsgi to passthrough to a full-blown Python app server running behind the web server as a separate process. All of the o…

For me, eBay was never about the auctions. I could care less about auctions - they're usually more of a nuisance than anything. It's about finding low-cost surplus or used products…

One word: indirection. With each level of indirection, you get one more level of sophistication, but at the cost of one more level of complexity. OO has tons of indirection (+cough…

Call me skeptical if you will, but the article's flavor contains a hint too much breathless exuberance for my taste.

Most UI code is intrinsically event-based. e.g., "on click, do this", "on resize, do that" Erlang comes to mind as a good event-based language. Strangely, it is rarely (if ever) us…

Indeed, I found that this statement sounded alarms in my critical thinking cortex: "the Singleton "pattern" encourages you to forget everything you know about OO design, since OO i…

For me, it's about passion and interest. I'd much rather be in a creation role: building, coding, designing. [Middle] Management, on the other hand, seems to be more about babby-si…

Heh. Interesting that they've stopped using the term "piracy" so much now that pirates are thought of as debonair swashbucklers who are sticking it to The Man, instead of as the mu…

Gack! Piracy IS NOT THEFT. It is copyright infringement. The copyright lobby would like you to believe that it is theft, but it is not. If you pirate a $10K software suite, you wil…

Overheard from This Week in Media ( http://www.pixelcorps.tv/this_week_in_media ): Post-production houses and graphical design companies often demand that all job applicants alread…

True enough. I guess my point is that there were previous debates about banning TechCrunch, which has articles that are spot-on topic but of questionable validity, and then we get …

Hell, if this is the criteria for what constitutes relevant news, we may as well have articles that debate the relative merits of different world religions. After all, the debates …