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I'm the author of a book about a space pirate so I got a particular thrill about that moment in the book/movie. (The Dread Space Pirate Richard.)

What if it contains secrets Man was not meant to know?

George Clinton quote? rang a bell. won't google, more natural.

HN jumped the shark into the realm of blatant self-promotion years ago, getting worse over time. I'll admit I've done it a few times too. Feel dirty, but, the market is a jungle.

plus Zooko's team has started building as well

this is the clearest summary I've seen, thank you

if this is who I think it is, Dan Bricklin, I want to chime in to say thank you for VisiCalc, sir! I was a user and big fan of your work. for the kids/newbs: effectively the (co)in…

best constructive takedown of Lisp I've read, thank you. I've had a love/hate relationship with Lisp for years. Yes, its strength is also its weakness. Its so much harder on the pr…

Signpost.com's backend was Lisp. Originally, when the company was named Postabon. I know because I worked directly with their cofounding CTO, Shaneal Manek, during the early buildo…

or.. brain plus text notes (vi, git, dropbox/rsynch, etc.)

On the server-side most bots are easy to recognize in an automated way. not all, but most. So speaking in general terms if the advertiser (by this I mean whoever's product or servi…

exactly

ahhh, 18 new ways that random faceless hackers and/or not-exactly-white-hat governments can MITM me. what's not to trust?

articles like this give me mixed feelings. Python is one of the best languages to use. GUIs are, in general, one of the worst UI types, clearly inferior to CLIs and web UIs -- in t…

> A single persons observations are not indicative of even a general 'reality', nor a convincing data set. I've noticed that over the course of 40+ years that almost every morning,…

normal person: I've noticed over the course of 40 years of real life, thousands/millions of direct RL observations (including.. wait for it... wait for it... seeing, hearing, readi…

> Your race has nothing to do with whether or not it's a good place to work as far as happiness goes. agreed. and I never said it did. Point to where I said that and I will send yo…