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> Where can you point me to "better documentation than PHP"? This is a major difficulty for new people getting into Python-- the documentation is really quite poor and out-dated. I…

Python‘s way of accomplishing this is as easy, although the use of `locals` should indicate that this isn’t generally something you should be doing: post = {'name': 'ijoshua', 'ema…

I don’t know the details of the compiler, but the negation operator on int objects also has a corresponding method: `__neg__` -1 == (1).__neg__()

Principia Discordia; or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her

See those arrows? That’s human moderation. Just don’t click on the up arrow if you think it’s spam.

The privacy implications and “unintended consequences” of participating in Facebook are shocking.

It was an apostrophe, but since Arc doesnaEURXt support Unicode, fuck it.

The patent appears to predate PLTaEURXs work.

How did you arrive at these conclusions? Did you use some programmatic analysis of CL source code to report these stats? Which codebases were your reference?

mzscheme (PLT) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11994

I looked at it very briefly. The codebase is actually pretty small. It appears to depend heavily on memcached.

Whatever language, I just hope it comes with decent documentation.

Given Lisp, I can implement a Lisp interpreter easily: (loop (print (eval (read)))

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.

Here-say and speculation, although not that far fetched.

"Honour thy error as a hidden intention" - Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies

I'd like to see a scoring system that evaluates the discussion or thread as a whole, rather than the individual contributions; a metric like a signal-to-noise ratio, where a thread…

You just participated. I did not realize this was an argument. I guess I lost. Seriously, though, the most interesting arguments don't resolve for quite some time, if ever. For exa…

Easy. The losers are usually the ones who participate.

Are you referring to the "JavaScript API" or the "Data APIs?" Because the Data APIs are pretty plainly based on the Atom Publishing protocol, with only a few extensions. Yes, many …

Google doesn't have to keep your data for you. The OpenSocial API is just a specification. Google's own applications implement the specification, and you can too. The API is design…

"But I think they're inherently slower for things like reporting." I wouldn't say the deficiency is _inherent_, but the powerful indexing ability of a relational DB that we take fo…

PG, I'd be interested to know why you chose to implement a voting/rating system for stories on news.yc. That is, did you consider a "weightless" submission system like, for example…

"Most people aren't smart at all." Very correct. In fact, nearly half of all the people you'll meet have a "below average" intelligence.

"Maybe" is one option too many http://www.zeldman.com/2007/06/20/remove-maybe-from-invitati...