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This reminds me of Neil DeGrasse's Tyson's "two main philosophies in life": http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qccer/i_am_neil_degras...

Tags make it easier to choose which books to examine and which to pass, so maybe just always show them, not only on hover over.

Perú.

If you are into Emacs, magit is rather awesome. Yes, it can do line-by-line commits (you can commit highlighted text).

Linus' feedback would make GitHub ready to support larger projects, regardless of the kernel staying or not. Supporting larger projects can't be a bad thing, that wouldn't be waste…

My very first webapp (now lost) used a similar idea. I wrote a web text editor in plain CGI with Python to allow users to create and edit an unlimited number of files. What the use…

"I regret having done a startup"

That's why I thought that a bad answer to pg asking "how did users find you?" is what the guy from the graph db gave him, "because we are the easiest!". Total marketing talk.

I too thought that the questions were blatantly obvious, yet wouldn't have asked (some of) them myself. This is an indicator of mastery, to make the difficult seem easy.

There's bash in there, and I think there's some Python; some plugins (git-svn) are in Perl. I also wasn't under the impression that there were 10 languages there.

I second this. It baffles me when I see an article with 100+ karma and 5 comments. How can something be so interesting and yet spawn so little discussion? It makes no sense.

FWIW, I'm already liking not seeing the score of comments. I can see how it really contributes to the discussion. Maybe do a poll later to vote for which changes should stick aroun…

"it is very hard for highly technically proficient people to be nice to everyone" They being so damn smart does not give them the right to be condescending and insult people who ca…

"HN can be gamed quite easily" is precisely what Zed proved yesterday with programming mofo.

I bet pg upvoted

Try opening it with Chrome (seriously)

Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box? Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.

I kind of got the feeling that he's lost some of his writing mojo - I didn't feel like I was reading Yegge. Maybe it was just too short a read for style to be noticeable, but I rea…

Command-lines are faster and more flexible than GUIs, because you define your own workflow - you can chain commands together with the unix pipe, pass arguments to commands that are…

It got mine wrong.