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It's a project that allows the Clojure guys to monetize their work. Go ahead HN Lisp lovers, kill my karma!

slightly offtopic: The user id - coconuts2314 - looks like a bot. Look at all the submissions and only one lame comment. Shouldn't the HN spam algorithms detect this?

Does Postgres have an equivalent Connect By feature? Last I checked it didn't. If you don't need to scale your hierarchical data much, its pretty handy. I'd prefer to go to Postgre…

I didn't know this one: ^X ^L

Perl: one man's solution is another man's problem

Why is Amazon so dominant in e-commerce if the working conditions are so bad?

I subscribe to the Economist and listen to it during my commute. Many of their articles are verbose, but it's still better, IMO, than many alternatives.

I work at a company that uses Jive (forum software written in Java) and its a grave yard. I'm really surprised that Yammer is so popular.

People who love C love it, in part, because they are often solving interesting problems with it. Many problems that require C are interesting: embedded software, automated robots, …

"Monsanto won its case against Parr, but the company, which won't comment on specific cases, has stopped its legal action for PR reasons against the Runyons." http://www.cbsnews.co…

Google is your friend. Here's one of many: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-4048288.html

It's my understanding Monsanto isn't a company that relies on free markets. They use lawyers heavily. If their seeds blow from a customer's farm to a non customer's farm and the no…

You have to take everything a hedge fund trader says with a grain of salt. These guys are making bets both upwards and downwards on the same day. For all I know they've got a progr…