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Does Google pull links from Gmail and attempt to index them? I am wondering how they knew to index these pages with random URLs (the "security through obscurity" employed by ClickBank and defended in the support ticket referenced in the comments here).

"Land of Lisp" is actually what turned me on to PG/HN/startups a few years ago. I believe there was a passing mention of PG somewhere near the beginning and that got me started reading essays.

I am very excited for this book as I do prefer the cleanliness of Scheme to CL.

He would be able to deny this unless he has already been disappeared.

How about

  grep -irn <identifier> .

?

-r recurses and since it is multiple files implies -H.

I use perl for this as well.

  perl -e 'chdir "/var/session" or die; opendir D, ".";
      while ($f = readdir D) { unlink $f }'

It is very efficient memory-wise compared to the other options as well as being much faster. It is also easy to apply filters as you would with -mtime or such in find, just change the end statement to:

  { if (-M $f > 30) {unlink $f} }

to affect files modified more than 30 days ago.

It's actually anti-urban-intellectual posturing, suggesting that the comment author is on a higher level intellectually.

I had a good laugh at both the joke itself and that the telling of the joke is an act of "verbally humiliating the dumb".

I believe his "—or geekishness, if you prefer—" is referring only to "intellectualism", a way of broadening the scope rather than redefining "geek".

I actually just watched those back episodes of Top Gear two days ago. I thought they conveyed most of the things said by your parent fairly well. They expressed extreme disgust with the gearbox, demonstrating clearly how non-functional it was, and showed comparisons with cars in the same price range in which it had much more body roll and braking distance.

Link to full zine: http://straylig.ht/zines/HTP5/

Hi Ajay - I just sent you an email.

This is a great way to put it. I agree, this is only happening because administrators see a way to use their "book."

Disclaimer: the same thing happened to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637272

I am glad to see that this is getting proper attention, probably enough for Kiera's life not to be totally ruined by it.

The exact same punishment was given to me for doing the same thing in 2004: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637272

No, I am not, I am very white and nerdy.

I am surprised at how much of the discussion here has focused on race and racism. I don't see that being a factor here; this is simply how public schools in America work.

I did not, however, have a perfect disciplinary record; I had been suspended a couple times for "hacking" type activity.

Yep, it used up most of what they had set aside for college though, which contributed in large part to my not finishing college, but that is something I am also glad turned out the way it did.

That is what happened in my case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637272

There wasn't a news article about me so I don't have to worry about being Googled. I do feel bad for the girl because of that. However, so far employers have found my story amusing so I'm convinced that high school hijinks affect job prospects terribly.

This EXACT same thing happened to me. I had some liquid Nitrogen for a science experiment at school, put it in a 20oz Coke bottle. Of course that's not something you do without knowing mostly what will happen, as I suspect was also the case with this girl. I took it to the bathroom (somewhere with no objects or people to damage) and it exploded, making a bit of noise.

I was expelled and charged with the same sorts of felony charges - constructing a bomb, detonating a bomb at a school, etc. With a small bit of lawyering the charges were reduced to one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct for making a loud noise. For that I was able to get "diversion" (like a lighter form of probation for juveniles), just some community service and drug testing, and could have my record sealed at 18. I was not, however, able to successfully appeal my expulsion.

I hope that this girl will be able to get a similar outcome and not end up as a felon because of this silliness.

This was in the middle of my 10th grade year. My next two and a half years doing home schooling and at the only private school in the city that would take me were terrific, I am very glad my life took a turn the way it did.