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I went there and no one was wearing these shirts. Delicious food, and still not Hacker News.

I'm definitely eating lunch there today, even though it isn't hacker news.

Even better, it's valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehous...

I don't know about common sense.

I don't think it was rationality or a lack of it. It sounded like he couldn't stomach the business anymore.

Or, he didn't feel like exposing his wealth to the markets for a while. Let's see if he ever comes back.

Funny, but not hacker news.

The U.S. takes on plenty of "responsibilities" that it shouldn't. I would be thrilled if the world saw the U.S. as ambitious educators, not aggressive policemen.

But don't worry; first world nations don't want our education anyway.

Where can I download this "Internet"?

From now on, I'm writing all my code on a legal pad first.

I had a similar experience. My first copy of linux was the RedHat 7 distro that came with "Linux for Dummies", and it cost $20. At the time I didn't have a CD burner or a good connection, so it made sense.

It was also nice to have the book, even if it didn't make me much better than being a Dummy.

Thanks. Your question made me really think.

The definition of murder as "the unlawfully killing of a human with malice aforethought" is a good one that applies well to Hans Reiser and shows the importance of motivation in determining whether or not someone is a criminal.

When soldiers are learning to kill an enemy that may not even exist, they have very different motivations when compared to someone that is planning to kill a personal enemy.

I believe that both individuals and nations have the right of self-defense, so I don't hold contempt for anyone that is learning to kill in order to defend himself or the people he has a responsibility to defend.

Contempt and scorn are appropriate feelings to have for murderers.

I thought this article was interesting because the author had spent a lot of time watching Reiser in court and might be speaking some truth about Reiser's personality.

Is there anyone here that knew Reiser more intimately than this journalist, and could give us some feedback?

Worked well for me in this case. I missed lots of cool stuff while I was camping this weekend.

I love this article. I have several friends that became frozen because they were bright and afraid to fail.

projecteuler.net is my favorite for sharpening my programming, or for learning a new language.

I hope so.

It's really nice to know that I could tighten my belt so much more.

I'm assuming that the writer wasn't making things up when he said that .mac support gave someone his password.

That interlude completely disrupted my presentation today when someone noticed that my search box had "Jessica Alba" in it.

I had no idea who she was, and now the entire engineering deptartment thinks I'm nuts for her.

Disappointment #2 is storing the passwords in plain text.

Idiocracy was outrageous (and funny) for the same reasons, and they're more enjoyable if they're recognized as absurd conclusions of widespread materialism and anti-intellectualism. Looking at them as serious science fiction only provokes the indignation and outrage that Gennady Stolyarov II is feeling.

Looks like I have a lot of research to do.

Yeah. The great part of this story is that Google approached this developer and asked him nicely.

I didn't expect to find a new favorite essayist today.

My strategy is to completely ignore my heroes, so I don't freak them out by revealing myself as a fan boy, and then hope they come and chat with me first.

How is it working, pg? Are we BFF yet?

When I'm on my death bed, not having learned enough physics will be my greatest regret. I hope.

I think Schneier didn't actually see Speed. I haven't either, and from what I hear I'm better off without it.

This is awesome. Since I don't have a CS degree, this will put me on equal terms with people that have worthless ones. We'll be judged on experience and knowledge instead.