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I think that the crux of the argument seems to be this idea that there is a "magic bullet" to fix the education system. As a former teacher I can tell you that if there is a magic …

I'm in a similar position to this, except that I really do want to get ton occupational level. My goal is to be employed in web development. I can hack some things together, and I …

Hi HN, Someone has offered to purchase a magazine subscription for me as a Christmas gift, and I would like to use this gift to subscribe to something that will help me along my be…

This seems like a situation where the one would have to be very careful to adhere to the spirit rather than the letter of the challenge. The possible positive outcomes are really g…

Whether or not it works, this seems like the right approach for FB. I definitely have had the experience of not knowing how to contact people (friends, parents, younger siblings.) …

I'm torn between loving the brutal simplicity and wanting them to add more products. I'm guessing if it's successful there's no way they don't add more products/categories.

Maybe this is better addressed to his site than this one, but I'm curious what type of job he netted with his reverse job application. Many people postulated it would be something …

I'm in a very similar position working with Ruby/Rails, and I struggled for a while trying to figure out what to do. The approach I settled on was to work through another tutorial,…

I know this isn't a totally original idea (as he mentions in the blog entry) but there seem to be a lot of folks newer to the filed on HN, like me, and I thought this was helpful a…

This is pretty cool, but it's hard to think of good parameters that generate a funny or interesting diagram. Maybe you could think of some more suggestions.

I just finished reading the article entitled "The Big Score" in the issue of Wired that turned up in my mail box today. (I'd link to it but I don't think it's available online yet.…

This seems like a perfect chance to take advantage of the law of unintended consequences. What I mean is, even though you may not see the direct and immediate benefit from a speaki…

I also wanted to learn to program and some friends recommended Ruby and Rails. I can't tell you if it's the best but it definitely does have a few things going for it. 1. A robust …