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You don't have to join "self-congratulatory ecstasy", but you also don't have to be a condescending dick.

Instead of making vague and shallow insults, you should try to politely explain what's wrong with OP's website.

In your 1-sentence insult, your main grudge seems to be that the website was made by a female. Your point might have been that women's work should receive equal praise (and criticism) as men's. But instead of discussing that (possibly valid) point, your sexist remark only feeds the fire (and makes you look like a dim-witted fool).

In a latter comment, your metaphor compares making social networks to gold rush. Again, possible valid point, burried behind a condescending sarcasm.

We shouldn't read between the lines to understand your point of view -- either make it POLITE and CLEAR or GTFO.

Is your comment supposed to be sarcastic mockery of HN or are you being serious?

I am in exactly same situation.

The main problem with "the spiral of learning" is the wasted energy required to switch tasks.

If I could just stick with one thing until I mastered it, I would be much more efficient. Trying to go back to things I haven't done in a while requires a long period of time for re-familiarization with material I already used to know.

>Imagine a $250 Macbook.

The only good part about Macs is the hardware. I would much rather run a normal linux distro instead.

Putting OS X on $200 Chromebook is like buying a barn and thinking you will get 1000-acre piece of land with it.

This is an interesting, albeit somewhat scary, application of Automaton Theory.

Scientists shouldn't be rushing with this kind of thing (research for sake of research), and we, as humanity, should carefully consider the implication of this kind of things.

Btw, this reminds me of the old game called Core Wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War).

Another problem with torrents is compression of files. Compressing a torrent makes it impossible to select only 1 file from a big collection.

This is a bad application of the quote.

Most of the Lisp hackers are usually knowledgeable about analysis of algorithm complexity.

Alan Perlis comment talks about inefficiency of Lisp programs due to a lot of (meta) abstraction and indirect mapping of abstract software to hardware.

There's plenty of people with mental disease who are illogical, but they still have capable of causing harm.

And "bad guys" are not necessarily required for a global catastrophe. Human error can do the job just as well.

This is my rough understanding of what's going on:

Ukraine wants to increase cooperation with Europe, and possibly join EU. This would undermine it's relationship with Russia.

The previous Ukranian president, Viktor Yushchenko, usually sided with the West, and current president, Viktor Yanukovych, wants to preserve friendship with Russia.

Russia obviously doesn't want to lose allies, so it threatened to stop trading, and impose strict sanctions on Ukraine if they agreed to partnership with Europe.

Some Ukrainians dislike Yanukovych for siding with Russia instead of Europe, thus causing protests.

If you have more knowledge about this situation, feel free to correct me if I err.

Yeah, any member of animal kingdom can rationally analyze situations and make logical decisions based on facts, but art, on the other hand, is unique to humans. </s>

Additionally, it is Open Source.

What is the point of advertisement?

Capitalism is an interesting trick. It is an artificial game, which exploits people's selfishness to benefit the world.

But selfishness doesn't usually work like that, so humans naturally try to find loopholes which would make them rich.

Instead of spending money on improving their services & products, corporations find it more profitable to spend huge amounts of resources on patent trolling, tax evasion and advertisement.

Sadly, ads will not go away any time soon, because they are much more difficult to get rid of then other loopholes I mentioned above.