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You're being a bit unfair. It's equally inappropriate for me to speculate about his motives, but I recall there being an undercurrent of melancholia in Aaron's writings even pre-in…

If you were a driver, wouldn't you want to be that awesome of a driver?

(def check-usernames (u) (or (nil? u) (and (has-email? (user (car u))) (check-usernames (cdr u))))) or something

Try many, keep few?

In other words, we should dismiss a priori the possibility of any racial correlates ?

The filtering phenomenon is obsolete; as you note, GM probably still cares because it's old fashioned, but modern companies don't care at all. Even if the filter exists/existed, th…

Find a good therapist (psychologist) to talk to about this. Working through shyness will be a long process, and having a smart caring person to coach you through it will be a big h…

Can we declare this "startup scenester" thing to have officially jumped the shark now?

Exactly right, and a self-deprecating meek geek with bad posture who comes to realize that the world works this way can use this information to his advantage. First, observe that s…

Take http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034351734@N01/137275735/ , subtract the black sweater and microphone, and you get what I call "canonical PG", in an orange polo shirt and khaki …

A full-time job? Sounds more like punishment than a prize. Mental freedom is worth more than $150k/yr.

Or just use Vimperator (firefox addon), and get keyboard shortcuts for the whole web.

The OP understands that XMPP provides pub/sub message queues. He's asking what XMPP provides over the other MQs.

"stateful xml protocol" makes as much sense as "stateful ASCII protocol" or "stateful bits protocol".

I assume YC owns "Hacker News". YC's partners are pg, rtm, tlb, and jl. I don't know whether they all have an equal share.

You just need to respect copyright. So if they explicitly allow you to scrape the data, or if you're operating within the "Fair Use" doctrine, then you're fine. (IANAL)

The problem is that the versions of the non-macports Ruby/Python/etc aren't managed by the ports system. So you're in for weird dependency mismatches if you upgrade your system ver…

When I started asking interesting questions. :)

Yeah, I saw him standing in line right next to Elvis.

Shock! horror! I might see a picture of a human !

"The only thing I can point to is that one great teacher we've all had (or I hope you've had). That one teacher who was able to just turn you on completely." Yes, I had one of thos…

Those questions belong in a late-night dorm room discussion in between bong rips, not Hacker News...

You're doing a software startup, so your costs should be minimal. You should be able to cover these costs by consulting for a few months at the beginning, then living off of this c…