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almost every HNer has submitted this at least once- including myself! Well done

It is the anti-pioneering spirit in me telling me that this is rubbish?

Also http://www.technologyreview.com/tr50/

Slightly off topic but I do not want to post another Ask HN question: what implementation of Scheme would you guys recommend/use? Working smoothly would emacs would be appreciated

This is a great collections of computer interfaces. Thanks

Also the author of "Chaos: Making a New Science"

I always found it sad: people waiting in lines to sell their text-books! Textbooks to beer converter sets a new low: it is pathetic

The peer review process is broken. This is sad from the perspective that it is not easy to trust anything anymore. But at the same time fortunate because everyone in science has to prepare herself for judging independently the articles that are served by the journals

Are the YC pitches so similar to each other as the article implies?

I fact he was the sole-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1921

See also the article The Fall and Rise of Douglas Prasher in Discover Magazine from April 2011 (This how I found the link)

Maybe we should wait for June the 28th for that discussion. Just to show some respect for pi that was with for quite some time

The word "stolen" is misleading- if I read you well. I would suggest you to rephrase your post if you want to be taken seriously

Even though I could agree with you, I think that some things should not be put in front of many eyes.

I guess the downvotes came because you focused on the real product instead of focusing on Calacanis or TC.

When HNers started downvoting thought that are at least fair and for sure politely expressed?

Making some enemies: Google "common lisp" and you will find that link in the first page of results. In a general programming languages forum this could be maybe ok. But having this in the first page of HN (known for having some familiarity with CL) strikes as something superficial to me.

The fact that millions of people are using their software and the fact that they have a real problem to solve (to silence the haters) does not sound so depressing to me. On the contrary many developers would be happy to have such a problem

Thanks! Sorry for rediscovering the wheel :)

Along the same lines I was thinking of the following alternative:

having no url bar at all but if you press let's say Ctrl+g (put whatever is available here) the url bar appears in the center of the screen and it disappears when you press Enter. Do you think that something like that could make sense?

The issue of "reputation" is really interesting and my guess is that will be more and more important in the future. It is already important in specialized communities where it makes sense to be an expert or a master or a ninja or you name it or gain karma points.

But I am not sure how important can it be in communities with many many users and without a well defined focus. He refers to a few metrics for the social component but it is not clear yet what a good and appealing "reputation metric" could be.

I am running Linux (ubuntu 10.10) and I am using the Gnome terminal. Of course I could switch to something else if this could make things easier.

I find nothing interesting in the original post to be honest. Just somebody that has a superficial impression about C# is complaining. Even the first 25 comments that I read are of no particular interest.

Meta: I wildly guess the HN post gets all the upvotes because initally people think that it will be about a google employee not allowed to use Lisp in google.

I have just tried to open a word file and it was impossible since Google Docs support Word files only up to 1MB! This is a big limitation in case that somebody would like to co-edit scientific articles.

I find it kind of sad posting rumors and gossip about somebody's health on HN even if he is Steve Jobs that definitely has huge impact on technology.

The relevant video about the ultra-fast trap of that aquatic carnivorous plant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb_SLZFsMyQ

Humanity's best is by no means present in that contest. These Jeopardy champions do not represent the world not even all Americans. In most cases people that compete in these games are not by any definition the brightest. I really like the idea of the Machine versus Humans contest, but having some already retired champions of a game competing with a tireless computer and supposedly representing humanity at its best it is at best unfair.

I completely agree with you. I think that in the 99.99% of the cases the question of scalability is related with a pseudo-problem or at best a good problem to have.

Thanks!

I think I understand why the initial design/technology decisions would rarely make it to a product that has to be largely scaled. This makes perfect sense for almost all cases.

Do you think that there are technologies that are inherently more scalable than others, so if some body was initially choosing them would stand more chances to scale up in a non painful manner?

<no-sarcasm>Can you please explain that?</no-sarcasm>

Sometimes I do not understand HN. There is the original post of the guy that posted his DNA on github.com (with the link of course) and a decent discussion on

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211334

(5 hours ago)

and still this post is the most upvoted