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in a private school this might survive and thrive in the public system this will be scrapped in a year, two at most

yeah, the genius in visiting PARC

twitter will live because it has cachet with a certain (growing) group of users who likely see facebook as passe now that gramma is on it

- xmonad, conkeror, urxvt, emacs23 (gnus, w3m, emms, erc)

oh christ here we go again, another blogger telling me that choosing tools is pointless, if i have a brain i will excel with any tool, regardless of it being mishapen and dull.

angels can bail on a shitty market because most of them are just doing it for vanity anyway (as numair points out, they want to be "players"). the VCs are tied to the business mode…

don't get too exicted, most demographic info people enter online is bullshit. lots of adclicks are bogus. etc. why not just become a psychologist and women will pay you to listen t…

yes a strop is more meaningful on a delicate foil-like edge of a straight than something like a chisel shaving with a straight is a real challenge and fun. it also teaches you to c…

i cannot stress enough the need for a warning before looking at that image.

even the previous year's (2007) returns were not great (6.9%)...you would have made more on the sp500. VC spend has been too strongly correlated to the web, a business that continu…

zuck will end up back at harvard...as an mba school case study..."most popular product in history to ever go broke". the mideast bankers won't front them money, that tin-can-bangin…

the US government will never allow the US dollar to be displaced as the only paper currency, it would undermine their power over the public. even presidents cannot undermine the do…

but creepy in a way....even the commenters, when given the freedom to vent anonymously, use phrases like "realignment"...

no surprise. as global IT exits the "build-out" phase and enters the long commodity phase, headcounts will fall everywhere in tech. and while msft won't admit it, open source and t…

actually it does. new investment practically became extinct during the depression. the 70s were little better.

xterm-256 is inferior to rxvt-unicode. it supports the color gradients, plus unicode.

please we just went through eight years of a jackass running the show like it was something out of his garage. the US govt is not a startup. the constitution informs us how to gove…

web 2.0 is over. most startups are just running out the clock. pg has it 100% wrong...the future will not be about a lot of little companies...he's just projecting what he wants th…

tough is good. yahoo needs help with bottom-line issues. some advice: - get rid of the last old timers in the ranks (ash, filo, hilary to a lesser extent etc). they had their time …

aka pressflip?

type signatures obviously do not explain the full specification of the function. is that surprising? they do help in creating documentation and in other tools useful to the languag…

i'm not sure i even understand what your problem is, you seem to be setting up false dichotomies and cryptic, impossible standards for success. so you don't like/won't use haskell …

no again. in the case of a haskell analogue to HashSet (Set, Map, etc), you could use type inference due to haskell's type classes. go look at the definitions of these libraries, t…

how about an operating system (house) a window manager (xmonad) and fully featured dvcs (darcs) or another (camp)? is there as much haskell out there as c, perl, python? no. but if…

then java is for you. good luck.