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To be fair, Kanye has also employed vocoders. See: "The New Workout Plan"

Except, that on a site like this, it distracts from the meaningful, insightful, or educational content that might otherwise take its place.

I compose electronic music. Attempted to learn to play keyboard at a late age, but progressed unsatisfyingly slowly.

I would agree that a disproportionate number of programmers I know are musically inclined.

I grew up using a computer. My penmanship lessons in school were botched. I started typing all my homework from fourth grade onwards. My handwriting, to this day, is only borderline legible.

My friend's 30+ person company is developing desktop software exclusively on AIR.

I find ProggySquare to be slightly more readable, partly because of the additional empty space taken up by letters like A

Coincidence. I've seen that ad many times before, and I'm fairly confident few or none of the profiles I viewed contained sunglasses in the profile photo.

I come to Hacker News to learn new things. I agree that it's amusing; I disagree that it's useful.

If I saw this on Digg, I would digg it. If I saw it on Reddit, I would grumble to myself about the direction Reddit has taken in the past year and ignore it. Instead, I see it on Hacker News, and I, too, want to downvote it.

If Hacker News is really "stuff, plus anything that has to do with the internet," it might as well not exist.

I'd argue that the more important measure is who your classmates are, but where their ambitions lie.

I went to a prestigious engineering school with high-quality instruction and top-notch students. However, the professional culture of the school was very much defined by a finance-heavy recruitment culture. Very few graduates of the school go on to do engineering, and thus the peer culture there doesn't contribute to advancing one's career in the sciences.

My best interpretation as to the point of this image, and/or this submission, is to test whether any pg-created content will automatically rise to the top of Hacker News regardless of its actual merits.

I recommend Herb Sutter's classic Guru of the Week articles: http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/ There's a lot of usually-uselss arcane stuff in there, but also a lot of valuable information.

Getting a job.

The video game industry is built on C++.

Thank you, Hacker News, for helping me cure my addiction to Hacker News.

One of the factors that lead Reddit to become unreadable, in my opinion, was the proliferation of editorializing headlines.

When the headlines begin presenting ideas that are too large a subset or superset of the actual contents of the article, it becomes difficult to judge what articles one actually want to reads.

New York Times Hacker News Digg

Let them find a way to use it.

When I was in high school, I played Robot Battle, a game in which you scripted behaviors for automated tanks. This gave me immediate reason to use and learn much of what I learned in math at school. The day we were taught basic trigonometry, I was on the edge of my seat, because I knew that what I was learning would be useful several hours later when I got back to coding my robots.

Of course, you can't force an interest on a child, but you can certainly introduce them to new ones.

So, Hacker News readers who have hired people based on resumes before: How would you feel, and what would you think, if you encountered this on an applicant's resume?

I have no interest in seeing this or other polls on the Hacker News front page, but if others want it I'm happy to contribute to it (all it takes is a click, after all).

And yes; one of the worst things that happened to Reddit was the proliferation of Vote-Up-If posts.