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What is the advantage of using domain-specific calendar/docs over using them with your personal google account?

I read people saying "duh, this is obvious". Of course it is, and everybody knows it, but it is still important when political personalities start to say it publicly.

Alcohol and tobacco are taxed heavily in most countries, and most people still prefer to buy it legally.

At first I thought it was a fake account, then I saw the verified account logo. Scary stuff.

Yet another article about the adventurous kind of retirement. Is it me, or do all personal finances magazines seem to have one of those these days?

How you dare questioning the sacred idea that an income tax bracket of 70%+ would destroy the economy?

I guess Amazon is forced to do that to the extent that someone else would do it first if they don't.

Am I the only one who thinks Stripe might be the most important YC startup ever?

Are you doing it just for fun, or is there any benefit over using something like w3m-emacs? (it could be nice to have emacs search HN for the currently selected word and make it a link, or something like that)

The genes? Like, if the kid of a miner is adopted by a couple of lawyers, his miner genes would still push him to a life of digging?

Are you also fine with racist jokes?

(sorry for the offtopic). Any news from the beta version of Stripe in Canada? Has any canadian here used it? Edit: hadnt seen this https://twitter.com/stripe/status/245159999674933249

They have been profitable since 2009, apparently (http://www.wired.com/business/2009/12/twitter-earns-first-pr...)

"Tu quoque"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

I guess twitter thinks it is big enough to stop worrying about pissing third party developers off. In the short term it probably won't hurt them much.

RPG's sequels to the original text are worth reading: http://dreamsongs.org/WorseIsBetter.html

I don't know, keeping such a huge code base simple enough to be able to add new features without breaking stuff sounds indeed amazing to me.

The page rank is high probably because of the people who link nissan.com without checking

Of course it has to do with SEO. The reason to write those fake reviews is not (only) to get people reading those before the product is out, but mostly to have better google rankings (page age seems to have some weight).

The author implements an inneficient algorithm using python and then a better one using C. He seems to feel python is for dirty brute force and C is for "real" programming...

"Rationally there is no point in having children at all"

What does that even mean?

Is it "rational" to stay alive? (isn't it only "worth it" because your genes order you not to kill yourself?)

Exactly, I also find it a bit confusing. I assume they are capturing variables (it would be crazy otherwise!) but they treat loop variables differently (as if a new variable was created every time).

The author seems to find that lambdas capturing the same loop variable is counter intuitive, but, honestly, that's the behavior I would expect from it!

I "still" use emacs because of SLIME. The most pleasant programming environment I have ever used.

Was he working 12-16 hours when you were a kid? So did you use to see him only the weekends?

I wish people would stop using the word "disruptive" all the time...

Excellent read. I specially liked this part:

"In fact some people get far more support than others. For example, I’m not going to name any names, but when a top tier VC writes a five million dollar check to a 19 year-old with a barely-beyond-napkin-stage idea, no customers and a fragile technology because they “present well” then clearly something else is at work."

Strictly speaking no GUI can be written using only a programming language like perl, java, tcl...

I/O has nothing to do in the discussion comparing Turing Complete vs. "supporting some language feature in a way that makes it practical for humans to use it.".

That's "evil" only because they will compete with a smaller company that you personally happen to like.

And probably none of them would find that to be bad in itself.