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Yeah, you're being unfair, especially if you've used both Python and Java and consider them equivalent in terms of laborious configuration details. When I say CLASSPATH hell I mean…

This guy is insane, everything he writes is a lame rant about how life sucks since the demise of Symbolics. However, I will have to say that I was initially excited about Clojure a…

Each week it seems they have to put out x words and this somehow hurts the quality. I've found they tend to talk about internet/new technology from an outside point of view (heavy …

The Bay Area is hands down the worst place I have ever lived for dating.

There are tons of sublets for that price on craig's list. Maybe put up an ad saying you are looking for a space, it worked for me.

I would think that even in SF or NY you could squeeze more out of that kind of money Good luck. studio apartment, best deal in the city: $1000 1 burrito per day (or equivalent) $15…

you lose even more money developing an application that costs more than $2.99 - because nobody buys them.

Your problem is that "cheap place" and New York are incompatible. How much do you consider cheap? I'm moving to New York and I haven't seen an apartment for less than $1800/m. I do…

Kudos for the first ever Cat Fancy reference on Hacker News.

NextBus isn't the company harassing the Routesy guy, "NextBus Informaion Systems" (NBIS) is. Reading between the lines, it appears that NBIS is run by a crafty fellow who got NextB…

The link is heavily editorialized. The actual title of the article is: "Does A Private Company Own Your Muni Arrival Times?"

Hm. When I look at UIC's tuition calculator, it's giving me $6757 per semester for undergrad engineering tuition and fees per semester. Over 8 semesters, that's ~54K. Other departm…

he did what he loved But was he really doing what he loved, or was he partially an automaton doing what his parents engineered him to do, eventually becoming the only things he kne…

My comments are specific to the Joel on Software forums. IT can be a crappy job and complaining from time to time is a good way to blow off steam. But consistently venting about th…

Are you sure? I thought this, too, but just checked out my home state's University (Minnesota). It's a typical big state school and tuition and fees for 4 years are pushing $45K. I…

I've always wondered if the polyphasic sleep hackers have girlfriends or wives. It seems like you'd either have to be chaste, or else have a very odd relationship with your signifi…