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Reading this is another reminder that I was not cut out for computer programming...

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How can that possibly be a discussion-enhancing comment on a news site lovingly called "Hacker News"?

Please mind that signal to noise ratio is something that we have to all work hard to maintain.

"This doesn't belong on Hacker News is signal?"

(Even less signal-ish is this post. But I don't care about signal-to-noise. What I care about is when there's no longer any signal, like Reddit and Digg.)

I suspect that unmitigated habits of noisiness contribute more noise than the combination of noisiness and inverse noise.

"I don't care about signal-to-noise. What I care about is when there's no longer any signal, like Reddit and Digg."

Disregard for standards leads to digg.

Four monks decided to meditate silently without speaking for two weeks. By nightfall on the first day, the candle began to flicker and then went out. The first monk said, "Oh, no! The candle is out." The second monk said, "Aren't we not suppose to talk?" The third monk said, "Why must you two break the silence?" The fourth monk laughed and said, "Ha! I'm the only one who didn't speak."

Edit: Source: http://thelab.fisica.unige.it/grosso/modules/news/article.ph...

Sure, but I never agreed not to speak. The rules apply to everyone except me. Duhhhh.

I voted you up, not because I agree, but because for me, this was more a reminder as to why JavaScript is a tricky language, and not one that should be jumped into as mindlessly as many of us do.

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