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Well, as a guy, I find many of the comments offensive and naive. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162917 Therefore I won't participate in HN discussions anymore. Thanks.

Neither John McCarthy nor Dennis Ritchie was college dropout. Steve Job sort-of was. 2 vs 1! Don't dropout!

Does it work 99% of the time though?

Slashdot still has many excellent comments. Just don't read it real time. Wait a day, and the good comments will be moderated as such.

Incidentally a few women expressed similar opinions a few years ago on two other forums I visited. Really, if he used "some women" (edit: or many women I know) would you have any o…

Incidentally a few women expressed similar opinions a few years ago on two other forums I visited. Really, if he used "some women" would you have any objection?

I actually think that "many women" isn't exaggeration. Similar issues are discussed frequently in many forums. It's only you don't know what you don't know! Edit: Ok. I exaggerated…

Just count in binary, everything will be easier. 110 * 111 = 101010 Very easy, don't you think? :)

I think "carrying-cost" is ok. Perhaps not for newbies, but for seasoned developers it's clear what this is about without translations.

The losts are in revenues, not units. It's entirely possible that people opt for lower priced computers instead of iPads.

You forgot about Mac :)

Wow. 2% of Google comes from MIT! Google rocks!!! ... Bravo, Google, but it's a bit obvious :)

Yeah, and you have to wonder why Kindergartners make better journalists than ...

Kind of off-topic, but I don't really understand what Node.js is about until this presentation. http://jsconf.eu/2009/video_nodejs_by_ryan_dahl.html http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.li…

You don't have to be this rude :) Some people use Java in spite of the language: they just like the vast libraries.

It looks like an entry about what Java can learn from Erlang. It's not about learning Erlang. I am pretty sure Java guys know quite well about various memory models. But early Java…

Is hightscalablility.com really the best place to start? I'd thought that reading some classic distributed computing books is a must.

No, it should make you feel proud -- understanding the world through 26 (or other small numbers of) alphabets. (Speaking as an asian.)

OK. Vaporware does not matter. I think we all know that :)

You may want to include page views of wiki page in other (human) languages.

Right. But they does not claim HoneyComb is open source. (They does not deny it outright though. That's little devilish (evilish not a word!), but I can sympathy with them)

But it's not a job for him; it's his business.

But is that legal? Even if it's legal, the other manufacturers will just abandon Windows Mobile 7. Not a nice scene.

Well, it's actually Intel.