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Why this this story on the front-page of HN? This provides very little quality content and discussion. This just seems to be propaganda. Yes, Curebit was in the wrong, admit it, mo…

I'm curious, how did Begemann start his company in 2008? There is a note in there about him raising 5M in 2009 but that was after he had a 25-person company?

I don't think that quote is meant to be taken literally. It's more a commentary on how you can accomplish most things you can put your mind to; the only limits you place are those …

A great math book is Gilbert Strang's "Introduction to Applied Mathematics". Actually anything by Gilbert Strang is worth it. I would also recommend: http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ…

I would recomend some social "stretching" techniques. Tim Ferris talks about them in his book 4-hr work week: 1. Make eye-contact. Make a conscious effort to do this. Pick one eye …

Yep. I quit my job to start my own venture. It was scary but it was long overdue. For a while I had been doing the "working on the side project after work" but then I realized that…

That is probably why it was overlooked

I like how most languages now a days are trending back towards LISP-like functional languages by supporting constructs like closures, lambda expressions, etc. It's all about modula…

I like the spirit. Keep developing. Keep learning.

Are you going to have subtitles for your 30 second tutorial video? ;-)

Safari's integration of bookmarks and reading lists over iCloud is just such a useful feature to have out of the box. I switched back to Safari just for that. Keeping all my device…

Firefox has become absolute bloatware. Opera is the only browser that is doing any kind of new innovation.

He reveals quite a bit of his character and interests in his seminal Art of Computing series. It's a great read for both it's content and it's prose.

Ignorance definitely can be bliss. I think there needs to be healthy disregard for the impossible; it's what makes you do things that others normally would not dare to do or even t…

Have you tried releasing it for production use? I would love to hear how it is working out for you. Are there any frameworks?

I'm not sure I agree. Yes to a certain degree, I think that programmers are self-taught, but I think like most things in life, most of the learning comes from your peer group. Work…

Awesome idea. What did you use for the physics engine?

I think it is a bit silly to try to re-create OO with type classes or vice-versa. They are just two different modes of thinking and represent two different ways of architecting you…

about and contact pages don't seem to work

I think GO is still experimental in app engine and doesn't support some services like OAuth, Google Cloud Storage, and XMPP. Also, "experimental" scares me for production use.

I wonder if GO can be used as a new front-end language, i.e., replacing javascript. The fast compile times certainly would make it feasible to compile the code at runtime in the br…

It's not only syntax, I think Erlang although a very good language, puts you in a different mode of thinking. This might be a good thing, but it also makes it harder to find develo…

I've been experimenting with GO and I really like it, especially since I come from a C/C++ background. Does anyone know of any good GO packages? I wanted to use the experimental su…

I think a much better indicator of how valuable a person will be in your company is not if he can solve puzzles on the fly but how munch time he puts into coding. If a person is co…