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You don't have to join "self-congratulatory ecstasy", but you also don't have to be a condescending dick. Instead of making vague and shallow insults, you should try to politely ex…

Is your comment supposed to be sarcastic mockery of HN or are you being serious?

I am in exactly same situation. The main problem with "the spiral of learning" is the wasted energy required to switch tasks. If I could just stick with one thing until I mastered …

>Imagine a $250 Macbook. The only good part about Macs is the hardware. I would much rather run a normal linux distro instead. Putting OS X on $200 Chromebook is like buying a barn…

This is an interesting, albeit somewhat scary, application of Automaton Theory. Scientists shouldn't be rushing with this kind of thing (research for sake of research), and we, as …

Another problem with torrents is compression of files. Compressing a torrent makes it impossible to select only 1 file from a big collection.

This is a bad application of the quote. Most of the Lisp hackers are usually knowledgeable about analysis of algorithm complexity. Alan Perlis comment talks about inefficiency of L…

There's plenty of people with mental disease who are illogical, but they still have capable of causing harm. And "bad guys" are not necessarily required for a global catastrophe. H…

This is my rough understanding of what's going on: Ukraine wants to increase cooperation with Europe, and possibly join EU. This would undermine it's relationship with Russia. The …

Yeah, any member of animal kingdom can rationally analyze situations and make logical decisions based on facts, but art, on the other hand, is unique to humans.

Additionally, it is Open Source.

What is the point of advertisement? Capitalism is an interesting trick. It is an artificial game, which exploits people's selfishness to benefit the world. But selfishness doesn't …