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giladvdnon Did someone hack Posterous's home page? (update: back to normal)

How did his domain change break the main site?

giladvdnon How to write a Haskell program

I agree. I don't know Haskell but this guide sure turned me off of it. They seem to try and do their best at showing the most complicated and unappealing aspects of the language. Even the basic HelloWorld program demonstrated is weird and long and I get the feeling that Haskell is convoluted and not worth it.

giladvdnon Ask HN: Random startup generator templates

When we did YKombinator it took around 2-3 hours to "code" and around a day to design and polish.

giladvdnon The Cognitive Style of Unix

The fact that you don't know how to make your tools easy to use doesn't justify making them complex nightmares.

UNIX (and open source software in general, with a few notable exceptions) is difficult because it's built by thousands of hackers with no user experience goals in sight. The goal is solving a problem for that particular person, as fast as possible. It's rarely getting more people to use the product.

giladvdnon Random Startup Generator

Thanks for the love guys :)