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this has nothing to do with "underprivileged" or having any real impact on the software industry future or current. Rather it's crony capitalism pure and simple - they make shoddy …

why of course education plays "a primary role here"; cf "Education Is The Key To Cleaning Up This Apartment" http://www.theonion.com/articles/education-is-the-key-to-cle... . Whate…

there is math, and then there is math. In Russia they have a saying "beat a rabbit long enough and it will eventually learn to take derivatives, but integrals are another matter". …

or perhaps the silent majority of the "HN community at large" mostly agrees with me, but a small, entrenched, vocal minority successfully bullies its way to impose its own view of …

I can name quite a few low score threads in the "New" section that are more interesting and relevant to the hackers amongst us than this. IMHO there is something rotten about the o…

the website organization seems targeted to "special education student at incompetent guidance counselor's office" level of intellectual ability. People who have the smarts to do an…

Hacker News and Slashdot are doing fine, thank you. HN, in particular, must be providing some benefit to its owners even though it contains no overt ads of shampoo or anything else…

two thumbs up. Next time these Purdue kids dare make a stupid video, they better hit the right counts for all the demographic tokens. Also, from now on the assistant dean for diver…

well, the latter two of them seem to have created their domains from scratch, back in the day. Now that they are done with the trailblazing and lots of other smart people crowded i…

in related news, "Report: Unemployment High Because People Keep Blowing Their Job Interviews" http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-unemployment-high-be...

yep, that's why my comment mentioned using a text file for notes, not paper. I usually edit it using IDE rather than text editor to take advantage of the convenient cut-paste a lin…

why does managing classes in basic computers and administering school servers require 2 years of python experience?

IMHO it's strange that we are discussing hiring Mr reality distortion field for a technical position here. If he were reincarnated and looking for a job now, he would probably go i…

one of the tradeoffs involved is between general expressiveness of the framework and ui unobstrusiveness. E.g. direct manipulation "naked objects" interface with fully automated ob…

don't know of any such tools, so instead I perform the task manually. If I want to better understand how some feature works, I write down in a text file what methods are involved, …

so have I got a deal for you :) Anyway, my recently published "nestgrid" framework is precisely that (among other possible uses). A mix of xml editor, spreadsheet, direct manipulat…

I would like to share my publication on a new type of tree-structured direct manipulation user interface. It's a desktop app but a web/flash demo is provided. The codebase is dual …