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please don't comment for another 10000 hours

no there isnt

But if he intervenes at this point it will spoil the emergent complexity of the community, and hence the beauty he has created per his revolutionary treatise "Hackers and Painters"…

This is just a natural consequence of Hacker News not being a free market. The state controls of the karma system practically guarantee inefficiency in the free exchange of ideas. …

The fact that the author was able to manipulate values 2 pages after the form he modified pretty strongly implies that those values were used on the backend, however.

hello i am a natural born programmer i am a creature of pure logic birthed from the essence of paul graham's reckons, may i join your society

You are so wrong that you are dangerous.

Easily the funniest link on this site this year.

You don't hope for vehicles delivering reusable lunch? I can't imagine anything better.

Which still leaves mouse pointer images all over the document. Horrendous.

So, in summary: "A hammer can be used for the following things: 1. To drive nails into another material 2. To 'hammer out' dents in sufficiently soft materials 3. As a weapon 4. As…

The content of the presentation is much the same, albeit pitched at a different audience. To get straight to the discussion at the end (which is impossible effectively to summarise…

I once worked on a project where 'REST' was synonymous with 'putting query data into the URL before the query string', and this was done so that the webserver could cache the respo…

The article and your comment share the same deficiency: they don't deal with concrete problems (or at least when the article does it's about edge cases, as you point out). It's all…

Exactly the same story currently exists in reverse for the album 'Kaputt' by Destroyer. It (used to be!) available to stream in full at http://hypem.com/#%21/artist/Destroyer . It'…

Fair enough - I clearly missed the point. :)

The point of the piece doesn't seem to be to add anything of value to a debate, rather than to grab some easy traffic and make a joke. Whether it succeeds at the latter is up for d…

Maybe there is some innate difference, but with a wide variety of societal factors in play I think we're probably on safer ground eliminating them from the equation before we decla…

I think you pick up on an interesting point - the focus on Computer Science qualifications above GCSE level. The drop-offs the article points to are between A-Levels and degrees an…

I'd be upset, but T-Mobile failed to get an upgrade smartphone to me within 2 months of my order and so I switched to Vodafone and got it within 3 days. Full story, for the interes…

Article invalidates self early on by claiming that this is a value object: class Person { var $id, $first_name, $last_name, $email; } http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ValueObject

I'm objecting to the article rather than the research, and I agree that the 'double-bind' described does ring true. What I'm objecting to is the conclusion that women should confor…