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Works for me, with current Chrome dev (6.0.472.25). Which version do you have?

It wasn't, when the comment you just downmodded was written. There's a reason Aaronson's posted multiple clarifications, after all...

It's been updated again, with a revised version of the draft ("minor updates") dated August 9, 2010.

Well, he also states that he hasn't really spent any time analyzing the proof, so it's not like he knows that it's deeply flawed. Isn't Aaronson maintaining a bit of a bad-boy online persona? Could just be his way of saying what Bill Gasarch just wrote on his blog:

"So what are my uninformed views? If I was a betting man I would bet that it won't pan out. I would bet that he proved something very interesting, but not P ≠ NP. Why do I think this? This is NOT based on the author who seems to be a person to be taken seriously. Its just that the problem is so hard and we've made no progress on it since... . Hmmm, when is the last time we made progress on it?"

Discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587405

As randomwalker says, it's not entirely obvious that Aaronson is betting against the proof.

Tao comments on it (very briefly) here:

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/pnp-relativisation-...

Guido has never been that kind of "dictator". Sounds you haven't really been paying attention...

Yeah, you're so completely missing the point of his code that I have to question the intelligence of both yourself and everyone who's upvoted your message. Is this stupid night on Hacker News, or what's going on here?

(And yes, I'm 100% serious. Your reply is the dumbest thing I've ever seen on this site.)

> this should be a lesson: if you're going to do a "hacker" resume, it should be perfect and actually parse/compile and run.

It does parse/compile and run. Try it.

So what industry is this, and who are their customers?

I suspect that was a reference to this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/technology/12google.html

"User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not computer science majors."

Inamorata? Did you mean to write that, or did your phone just teach me a new word? :-)

The page I end up on has the title "5 Organizations Helping Women Get Ahead in Tech" and isn't really arguing against anyone what I can see. Are we reading the same article?

In the article, "They" in your first quote refers to evening people, so I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're trying to say here.

From "Jay Nancarrow, a spokesman for Google", perhaps? That's a real person.

What interview? Blogoscoped is quoting three comments from the Reddit thread.

The script just sets a hidden input field to a "magic" value once you've moved the slider all the way. If you can write a trivial regexp, you can circumvent their "captcha".

Can you link to the post where they claimed that? In the one I read, they said that Tumblr was a pretty cool site. Not a single word about the size of the user bases.

So which post did you read?

What argument? Posterous has never claimed that Tumblr was dying, so the whole post was based on a false premise. Go read their original post again if you don't believe me (or read my post in the deleted thread, where I quote the relevant parts).

Where did Posterous claim that Tumblr is dying, btw? Their original blog post says "A lot of you have asked for help moving your old blog, photos or videos to Posterous. You grouched about dying platforms that haven't added new features in ages, sites that have made it too complex to perform the most basic tasks and places that smother your content in ads."

You have to read things way too literally to interpret that as "all sites we're going to mention over the next few weeks suffer from all these flaws".

Looks like it's operated by these guys (who are described as an "amazon affiliate" in the FAQ):

http://fresh.amazon.com/

The more I read about this, the more I wonder if most of them were just playing an ARG (or at least thought they did).

It's titled "A Special Announcement!" in the TUG conference proceeding. I'd say the odds are pretty good that it's TeX-related.

On the other hand,

"When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data. Data in your favor? Ok, launch it. Data shows negative effects? Back to the drawing board. And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions."

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

You do know that the SNL thing was a riff on something she actually said, right?

You claimed that he had "complete misunderstanding of recursion until someone mailed him a copy of SICP". To prove that, you refer to an implementation technique?

Here's the thing: Your first post was unfounded and uninformed personal attack on someone you don't know. That's reddit style trolling, and says a lot more about what kind of person you are than it says about the person you're attacking. Hacker news would be better place without that.

Oh, please. It's not like anyone's forcing you to be an trolling asshole, so why do you gladly volunteer? You don't know Guido, and you don't have the slightest idea what he knows and not.

Or that's what he claimed. For some reason, he forgot to mention that he went from a post-IPO behemoth to a pre-IPO company that was the hottest thing on earth at that point...

If you buy GOOG stock because you expect them to maximize short term profit, you haven't really been paying attention. It's not like they haven't been telling people what they're up to:

http://investor.google.com/corporate/ceo-message.html

http://investor.google.com/corporate/2004/ipo-founders-lette...

Is it just me, or is the "daily internet activities" description a bit confused. Do 18% of all adult Americans really deal with their online bank "every day"? Or did they perhaps mean that the average user does it a couple of times per week?