Radiant

I'd agree with you if you were talking about generic "commieblock" buildings, but the ones presented in this article are pretty original and have a monumental feel to them. Pretty sad to see your sentiment upvoted this high on HN.

This post is sarcastic and the site is some kind of a parody, right? RIGHT?!

A lot of countries grant citizenship based on some points system. In most of them having a Master's degree brings you more points.

Also: yes, if you want to immigrate to a Western country.

Oh hey, it's the Fallacy Man!

People who can read data sheets tend not to use Arduino.

That's a really good book, indeed. Cliff in the book is much less annoying than Cliff in real life, though. I didn't expect him to be such a conservative anti-technology person. A good example is this[1] newspaper article of his. At times, he just seems like a typical attention-seeking contrarian.

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...

A friend who works in Germany told me that recruiters in his company discard all CVs that use Europass template.

Yes, seems like it's 8.04!

That version of Ubuntu looks very, very old.

So it's like Google's Inbox?

+1 for LibraryThing.

That was actually inspiration for Google's PageRank algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#History

Same thing happened to me.

His website design is a shameless rip-off of Paul Graham's website. It's incredibly lame.

What an awful article. The whole "let's imagine how Steve Jobs would do it" thing is so lame and morbid. His whole critique is basically "Why isn't Tim Cook the same as Steve Jobs?!" If you need bullshit "storytelling" to like or buy a product, then that product probably sucks.