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If I assume women like me, but I'm not getting laid, then I have only myself to blame, and that doesn't feel good. But my pride isn't so attached to the amount of gay sex I'm having.

garreton The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.

http://xkcd.com/386/

garreton The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.

Web companies are quite different from screenplays.

garreton The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.

Did you create this comment exclusively for the love of creating a comment?

garreton A sick CEO's full disclosure

You get your customers and colleagues only once, too. Maybe he could have chosen better priorities. At least he had some.

garreton Ask HN: Please help a virgin blogger.

I'd been reading your site for a few weeks before I realized they were recycled comments. I like the idea of culling the ones that read like little essays. I just assumed that was your goal.

Plus, having a blog on its own domain is easier than giving everyone a link to http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=edw519, which is awkward, and which includes the clutter of shorter comments, other people's comments, up/down arrows, etc.

1. When I read, I'm interested in an author, not an author's readers. (But the links back to HN are good in case I want that.) As in the last paragraph of this article: http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/whats_fair

2+3. I prefer reading one post at a time, with a straightforward ToC. Tags are distracting. If I'm looking for a post on a certain topic, I use a search engine.

4. Even if the title's lame at first, it can become cool if comes to stand for something good.

garreton There Are Two VC Industries

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

garreton Scotch as a Diet Hack

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

garreton Scotch as a Diet Hack

The point of this article seems to be: people believe scotch has more alcohol than it does, so you can drink less without their pressuring you into drinking more.

Obviously you could just have a water

This is more about hacking other people than it is about diet. Managing other people's impressions of you without having to be upfront about what you're doing.

garreton Productive Programming

One of the most useful mental habits I know I learned from Michael Rabin: that the best way to solve a problem is often to redefine it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html

garreton Heavy drinkers outlive nondrinkers

I would guess that the more a person drinks, past a certain point, the more likely they are to lie about it.

garreton I own you, and you're easily replaceable.

Scientists are supposed to know better than this.

Maybe we shouldn't suppose so much.

garreton Creepy?

he no longer pays much attention to the blog

He pays attention enough to start comment threads about it.

garreton Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks

Gruber fails to mention the obvious motivation behind this.

Maybe because it's obvious. The point of the article is that breaking copy/paste, whatever the reason, doesn't work: "Who, when they paste such text and find this “Read more:” attribution line appended, doesn’t just delete it (and wonder how it got there)?"

garreton Damian Conway on Perl and its future

the essential complexity of the code ... will manifest elsewhere

By using a different language or by writing simpler code, you can avoid every complexity mentioned, so it's not really essential complexity. And programmers in any language can create these problems, except "the intrinsic Python OO worldview," and maybe "weird library APIs". So this sounds like it's really just a criticism of Python.

garreton Oh look, an iPad

> It is heavily restricted in what you can do with it.

And that's what makes it more useful to more people.

garreton I no longer read long articles on my computer

True, it's better for long articles and for users who wouldn't comment on blogs anyway.

garreton Steve Yegge's predictions from 2004

It's like an automatic mondegreen generator.

garreton Censorship flamewar

Not everyone realizes copyright enforcement is a form of censorship.

garreton Dictionary bookmarklet defines any word on a page

Lingro is the fastest and best web dictionary that I've used. I'd been looking for a good one for a while.

garreton JQuery 1.4 and Malformed JSON

It can also be wasteful to include unnecessary special cases. Eliminating them saves people's time at the machine's expense.