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Only if you first answer it.

If Symbol#to_proc is so great, I'd like to see how it can elegantly express something that can't be hidden behind a simple library function. In any decent language the programmer w…

A&F: revenue - $2 billion a year, valuation - $5 bil Facebook: revenue - $150 mil, valuation - $15 bil

At least for me, Google is the Google of personal information. Xobni makes Outlook search less painful, but my Outlook only has my boring work emails. Gmail and Google Docs (and Fa…

Ugh. The Diebold bot is voting me down.

I think that it's impossible to state firmly (especially in a forum called hacker news :) ) that George Bush Jr beat either Gore or Kerry. This is because electronic voting machine…

http://www.nabble.com/Erlang-concurrency-to14747956.html#a14...

What makes you think it's written to stdout?

People believe in weird things. This could succeed.

I think a lot of people like those apps.

Slide is on MySpace too, and they probably make more money there than on Facebook. It's easy for us YC news hackers to forget about MySpace because we probably all use Facebook but…

I don't think running your own software on EC2 qualifies as building a CDN.

The cool kids won't move on to Scala for a number of reasons, the primary of which is that Scala's actors are not as powerful as Erlang processes. See Virding's First Rule of Progr…

Javascript is simpler - but more importantly, much more popular than Objective-C. It's also garbage collected, a feature that Objective-C may also have these days, but not when I l…

That's true to a degree. However, Google also follows the mantra, "what's good for the Internet is good for Google." For example, they provide the monetization system (ads) to ask.…

"This is cute, but doesn't really do anything which isn't already possible with EC2 and S3." EC2 doesn't give you durability, and S3 doesn't give you speed. SimpleDB gives you both…

I've heard the argument (also made by PG) that there will always be room for more successful web startups. Do you think it's true? Sometimes I get the feeling that the internet has…

Baysian filters requires quite a lot of training to start working effectively. People don't want to rate hundreds of articles before they start getting good content.

Problem is Google penalizes pages with duplicate content by lowering their PageRank. If comments are duplicated on your blog as well as on discus.com, your blog could pay a price.

Having the source code wouldn't be much of an assurance. How do you know that this code is really the code that is deployed on the machine during the elections? How do you know tha…

I actually think she's creating something very different from drones. It sounds like she's pushing kids to do extraordinary things that they wouldn't think of doing by themselves, …

It's just about speed as much as how much abuse your server can take before it stops serving.

Ugh. I tried to order one but couldn't get past the 'enter desired serial number' page due to a Javascript bug. I hope it doesn't take another 2 years of research to find the forum…

Lots of parentheses?

When I moved from reddit to hacker news, I was hoping Coding Horror wouldn't follow.