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The sad thing is that this is supposed to be Hacker news, not Apple fan-boy news.

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the iPad. Could anybody clarify?

Is it just a regular tablet? What OS does it run? Is it free? Can I change it to GNU?

After reading a dozen or so entrepreneur stories, I've come to the conclusion that luck and connections were the most important factors in their success [citation needed], and bodybuilders don't need any of them.

I simply can't believe so many people are paying that exorbitant price tag ($1600 to $16000 an year) to have zero-profit niche Q&A website.

It doesn't make sense financially, and they could sponsor free software development of the already mentioned clones.

> if a guy doesn't want to go to a party and get terribly drunk with everyone else in the company, then he obviously has some element of his outside life — a girlfriend, a hobby, et cetera — that is more important to him than the company

god...

As a Brazilian, I consider very offensive the american difference between Hispanic and White. Were iberian europeans somehow lesser than north europeans?

No matter the answer, non-hispanic whites are ignored and the term is now used to designate people from latin countries - I, myself, being the product of german and italian "whites", have been called hispanic more than once.

Ah, the typical and noble starving artist, who sacrifices material well-being in order to focus on its artwork.

Meh, this is a war against MEN.

In a society with such a gender imbalance, women can be more picky and some men are left without hope of getting a partner. Without a partner, what are they going to focus on life, if not work? And who is gonna get their money when they die?

Communists may be evil, but they aren't stupid, so it's unlikely they haven't foreseen this.

And the news website reports this abuse as if it was an acceptable and respectable decision! Is there any doubt that mass media's role is just social control?

That was the point! :)

"For me, there is a sort of metallic flavour to most raw tuna;" - yes, it is called Mercury

Haha, oh the irony... I once had my very own WM articles deleted on the portuguese wikipedia by a proposition of guy that... cataloged guava varieties.

Let's just hope nobody records anything obscene so that our Apple overlords don't remove it from Their store.

Reddit clone in 4 lines of perl: http://gist.github.com/299579

Haha, my technique is also blocking websites. Here it goes, might be useful for someone: http://pastebin.com/AhY3mgU4

So what? It's easier to lie saying only the truth and omitting some part of it, or not even omitting anything, but not saying it frequently enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence

A lot of these thoughts ultimately come down to selling and dealing with clients, which I find the hardest part of the thing. Can someone share some advice on it, or maybe suggest a couple of books on the matter?

> In fact, this week Citi has announced the financing for the True Colors Residence, a housing facility for homeless GLBT youth in New York City.

Wait wat?

Citibank is sponsoring free motels?

How does this compare with parenscript?

Install xmonad and configure it properly

I hope my downvoters enjoy the beauty and art of "Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks / Lick on these nuts and suck the dick / Get's the fuck out after you're done"

I try to be open minded; I try to appreciate the style; I try to pretend it's not just a glorification of criminality, immorality and shallowness, but with every song I listen, I get closer to the conclusion that it's the same goddamn piece of rap.

Would anybody care to prove me wrong?

This might be of some use: http://pastebin.com/f10cbf605

Huh? I didn't get it... his whole technique is creating a one-key shortcut?

I'm currently using sup (http://sup.rubyforge.org/), which has labels and threads like Gmail, but is Free as in Freedom, runs on ncurses and, ironically, has a much better search mechanism, which was the main reason I switched from Gmail. There is also notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org/), which is still alpha, but aims to be faster and more scriptable than Sup.

The only program one needs in Windows is putty, so to be able to connect to a REAL computer.

Considering that kindle customers do not own the books they buy, Amazon's kindle will be Free as free first dose of cocaine.

This is what happens when we cede terrain to these idealistic and demented pressure groups, such as the feminists and the racialists.