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Isn't it painful to alternate between typing "her/him", "him/her", "her/his", "his/her", "she/he", "he/she"?

HN subsumes reddit (on hacker topics).

If it's important someone will pay you for it. This is even more true in today's crowdfunding era with kickstarter and co.

Not very long because I'd be bored and run down from not having any important work to do. Also, social isolation would be a problem.

> That the language is less safe? Not necessarily. > And haskell has extensible records, they are just a library like anything else: And OCaml has monads, they are just a library l…

OCaml is more practical than ML and Haskell because it has objects, for loops, more edge cases in the language, built in mutable keyword, and extensible records.

That's a very interesting website. It also features for example analysis of companies and what domains they did/should buy. It really shows how there is really an entire economy ov…

The fact that Microsoft puts so much care into creating elaborate structures to preserve legacy is why I trust them with securing my identity.

USB devices need to be regulated to ensure this kind of thing can't happen. Perhaps the FCC's arm reaches far enough that they could tackle this issue, otherwise maybe a separate t…

Correct, pointless programs like this freeze but that's by design since they're pointless: package main import "fmt" func main() { go func() { for ;; {} }() for ;; { fmt.Println("s…

For example: if you have one thread polling `x` and another thread writing to `x`, there's no guarantee that the polling thread will ever see any updates to `x`.

> There are no buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Go applications Actually there are in certain cases [1], but there's a good reason for that. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions…

Go's syntax and semantics seem ad-hoc, hard to remember, and inconsistent, but that's because Go was designed from uses cases and experience by prominent thought leaders such as Ro…

How did learning how Algebraic Data Types are algebraic make you "get" Haskell? When I learned Haskell, I just read Learn You A Hasekell in a few days, and immediately understood t…

Having a spam filter for talking to someone you explicitly allowed to talk to you would be nonsensical. But hey, it's Microsoft.

Microsoft's MSN messenger also filtered links. One example I remember was that it would replace any link on mediafire.com with empty space (causing confusion in the conversation).

Sites that do that have always annoyed me. I'm pleasantly surprised that mozilla actually agreed to fix this. Interestingly, just last week someone here posted a plugin fore chrome…

It would indeed be plain absurd to argue that we needed patents to achieve flight.