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pg "master of the straw man" I sure wish he'd stick to technical stuff. The combination of arrogance and ignorance displayed in that essay is a bit too much. I'd be a lot happier i…

Yawn. I'm getting rather sick of Zed - whether it's his toddler tantrum tirades, or this jumbled, rambling brain dump. "The truth is: Any language that's Turing Complete and suppor…

Now that a comments link exists. It would be nice to have points displayed also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118589

Are there any folks using RSS for Hacker News out there? I'm surprised there isn't more demand for displaying the points in the RSS feed.

Wow, in light of recent Zed events, I think I owe you an apology! That must be one heck of a grapevine.

I like the phrasing: "The difference between practice and theory is greater in practice than in theory."

Having a comments link in the RSS feed is great - thx! What do you think about also adding the number of points for a submission, so I can skip submissions below my threshold?

Hard to say what would be a good reason for you, but I had used vim for a couple of years and really liked it. I still like its conciseness. I became interested in emacs because of…

I recently switched from vim to emacs. It's so easy to extend with elisp functions, and the buffer handling & directory editing is great. Not to mention ecb, etc. I still like vim,…

"Couldn't you write some standalone scripts to run from the commandline to insert new posts into your blog?" As someone mentioned in the comments on that site, there's no need to w…

Wow, and I thought Ruby was slow! http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?t...

+1 I'm surprised this feature doesn't exist. I don't have many saved items yet, but I would think it could clutter up rather quickly.

Would you mind elaborating on the persistence a little? What is the granularity of persistence? For example, does each submission get written to its own file with associated commen…

Yeah baby! I missed one true/false Ruby idiosyncracy, and that did the trick :)

Oh yeah, Ruby has a slightly different interpretation of true/false, so I changed while(z) to while (z != 0) - likewise with if. No help though :(

Looks pretty close to Ruby: 1) remove semi-colons 2) replace a = b - - with a = b followed by b -= 1 3) while (z) { .. } with while (z) ... end However the if modifier (if it works…

Oh really? Why don't you either stop spreading FUD, or back up that statement with some reality. "heard through the grapevine" - give me a break.

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