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Your hyperbole is akin to Malcolm Gladwell's style. See how this works?

What's wrong with "ls -l (which cmd)"?

You shouldn't have any issues changing your default shell via chsh. SHELL is, by default, set to /bin/sh by cron—you can also define this yourself. http://www.gnu.org/software/mcro…

programming is hard, let's go shopping!

Yes, there are plenty of companies out there that very much depend on a network effect and aren't Y Combinator-funded: Digg, Facebook, Quora or Stack Overflow, to name a few.

Yes, I rather dislike the tone of their post. If anything, these sorts of childish insults makes me want to avoid using Posterous.

You must be terrified by copy/paste.

Swiping is not obsolete. I don't know why you're trying to compare a virtual retailer like Amazon to shops that have an actual physical presence. The way they process payments is e…

Chip and PIN is a standard. They wouldn't have to reverse engineer it or implement from scratch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN

Is it not obvious? Why don't retail stores type in your credit card information instead of swiping it? Chip and PIN doesn't seem to exist in the US so I'd imagine they're not targe…

Perhaps you should look past the author to the content. There are some interesting ideas in there and it seems to have spawned some good discussion.

Sorry, you're right. I don't think that paragraph and the proceeding one was there when I originally read the post. Seems it's been edited since it was submitted.

Coder's block is a good way to describe it. I've had phone interviews where I've been asked to solve a logic puzzle with pen/paper while explaining my approach. Solving a problem y…

That's the second time you've posted that link on HN. Do you have something against Aaron?

No, he said that he would ask for a code sample or demo. There doesn't seem to be any programming involved during the interview.

What sort of programming problems are you giving them? Did these candidates have experience with other projects and were they able to fluidly explain their involvement with them? I…

In the case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks,_Ltd . HN does it wrong. There are exceptions either way, I wouldn't say that one is more correct.

Why would it be technically difficult for Apple to remove apps from your phone? Implementing a backdoor in your own software is fairly trivial.

No need to sensationalize, he's still around: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sah Codepad is meant for simple snippets. I don't see anything wrong with the versions that he'…

http://antoniocangiano.com/2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up/

Any insults that Ted Dziuba receives are well-deserved. He's written dozens of trollish articles on how useless other startups are or how he hopes they'll fail. It seems fair to me…

Can anyone that hasn't enabled tethering confirm that their visual voicemail hasn't been working? There were a slew of people on the MacRumors forums that were tethering and didn't…

Most of what you're saying also applies to the other carriers in the US. Verizon has a history of crippling its phones. Sprint has horrible customer service. T-Mobile has very litt…

news.arc is open source. Go see for yourself: http://arclanguage.org/install

The new version of Arc was released 31 days ago. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9700