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I flagged this.

It wasn't submitted to let people know about the feature, it was submitted to stir the pot.

_3ex7on Skype cancels Asterisk integration

If you want POTS, you get a telephony card from Digium. If all you want is VOIP, then you can use your box as-is.

Might be outdated, but you TFoT2 is free:

http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/

_3ex7on Ask HN: Is working on a startup a terrible idea for a graduate student?

Oh my bad guys I didn't realize he was just looking for a pat on the butt. In that case, yea dude startups are totally awesome !!!!!!!!!

_3ex7on Ask HN: Is working on a startup a terrible idea for a graduate student?

You might be better served asking somewhere else that is not going to be as biased. Try reddit.com/r/AskReddit .

_3ex7on IBM doesn't care about node.js people

I hope to be as awesome as Marak when I grow up ....

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_3ex7on Ask HN: What do you think about this idea? It's called "Strtps"

and while we are at it, dont change it to "something"-ly

_3ex7on X Factor & fox.com hacked, contestants database leaked

What does this mean? This is not useful to the discussion either.

_3ex7on Apple AirTunes private key extracted

cool story bro

_3ex7on Why not Lua

I couldnt tell you but...

Look at awesomewm (dude wrote it)

http://awesome.naquadah.org/download/

_3ex7on Stop Telling Students Recursion is Hard

Thanks for your answer.

>Also, in Scheme and other functional languages, function calls in the tail position are compiled or otherwise treated as jumps.

So that is why people make such a big deal about tail-call optimization? Because it prevents stack overflow?

_3ex7on Poll: Display points on comments?

I thought people were supposed to vote up/down based on whether the comments adds/detracts value from the convo?

_3ex7on Poll: Display points on comments?

Why not let the person who submits the article decide whether or not comments are visible for that thread?

_3ex7on Poll: Display points on comments?

There are quite a few people here who are suggesting pg make it an option. While that would make everyone happy, it wouldn't solve the problem; people who vote based off points will continue to do so.

_3ex7on Another Way to View the "Decline" of HN

I would say posers instead of critics (myself included)

_3ex7on Stop Telling Students Recursion is Hard

I am not sure if I understand recursion or not. My definition of recursion is a function that calls itself repeatedly until an exit condition occurs (the first chapters of little schemer define this as an empty list). If the exit condition never occurs, and the computer lacks infinite computing power, you will probably get a stack overflow. As far as I can tell, recursion and a for-loop accomplish the same thing.

Am I missing anything?

EDIT: I wrote this before reading the article

_3ex7on If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email address in your profile

I have a feeling this guy will make it

_3ex7on Ask HN: Please suggest me some good open source physics engines

relevant: http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/04/06/physics-engines-f...

xpost from http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/gkz1e/physics_engin...

_3ex7on The Solution to App Fatigue and Hitting the App Wall

Or you could just not drink the kool aid of every tech fad that comes out?

_3ex7on The iPod of 2004

Does anyone know of a reason why the headphone jack moved from the center to the left side ?

EDIT: On second thought, the new iPods (iPhones) have the ear piece for the phone in the middle.

_3ex7on [dead]

That person had "should" italicized. Also, the question is asking what the most elegant solution would be, not the most fast.

_3ex7on Goodbye Facebook

This movie is not about Facebook. If you watch the behind-the-scenes documentary on the 2nd disk, they even tell you this. Facebook, in the context of this movie, was just a vessel to deliver a story about building something big and conflict. Much as a tortilla chip is a vessel for nacho cheese.

_3ex7on Talismans of Productivity: Or give up coffee.

I was always curious about the timeline between:

- finding one of these talismans of productivity

- actually trying it out

- blogging about it

- staying with it

I have a feeling the first 3 occur pretty rapidly.

_3ex7on Poll: HN San Diego -- do you want a mid-month meeting?

whatever sounds good to me

_3ex7on Doomsrc.txt (released 13 years ago today)

The original link is ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/doomsrc.txt , but I assume HN denies ftp links.

_3ex7on Ask HN: Anyone have process for creating good internal application names?

I name them after herbs

_3ex7on Request HN: Join The HN Dream Team

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_3ex7on Processing.js v1.0 Released

Apologies.

Personally, I use processing.js because I can use all the existing Processing examples as a point of reference. It is easier to get the ball rolling as opposed to starting from scratch.

As a plus, the experience I get with processing.js, I will be able to apply to Processing (as you probably know, Processing is often used to graph output from an Arduino board, something else I have as a hobby).

_3ex7on Processing.js v1.0 Released

It is pretty much a direct port of the Processing language (originally written in Java). So you can bring your Processing projects to the browser without the need for an applet.

_3ex7on Why I'm staying at Harvard

> I tend to be the card carrying non-academic in my circles

I am unfamiliar with your slang. Can you elaborate please?

_3ex7on Ask HN: Inspirational Books

Fahrenheit 451 opened my eyes about society today. Not sure if it is really "inspirational", but it very well might have you view the world differently.