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How non-Godelian of them.

You own the local grocery store?

Wow, I'm sorry to hear your career is shot.

Read the Myth of Sisyphus by Camus...

Is this hacker news or SEO news?

Hmm, if they didn't make their own website using Weebly, why would I ever want to use Weebly?

Sometimes I have a hard problem in front of me. I can't crack it. I go to sleep. I don't dream about it. I wake up. I know the answer. That isn't part of the concious mind and is pure reflex and creative.

>or, to be truer to the data, perhaps 1 per cent inspiration, 29 per cent good instruction and encouragement, and 70 per cent perspiration.

Wow, these are all in the same unit?

It is hard to be serious about getting tenure in an English department, which amongst typical universities tend to have orders of magnitude less tenure spots available per actual tenure-track position.

That should read:

    def foo(n):
        n = [n]
        def bar(i):
            n[0] += i
            return n[0]
        return bar

Python really needs a scoping syntax to allow assignment to closed variables.

You might want to try that math again; it doesn't work for spheres.

Do you know anything about the early history of Microsoft?

If you aren't doing it to make money, and are just doing it for the liability protection, in court that liability protection would be found to not apply to your non-corporation posing as corporation.

Huh? You can literally dump photos to it and just upload them across the internet to your desktop, as long as you have a wifi connection (you mentioned writing emails, which would require wifi as well).

Back away, SHARK!

Just pointing out why the GPLv3 is nothing but a pointless complication: as long as your app doesn't come installed on the iPhone by default, it can be licensed GPLv3; Apple can sign the binary, and, as the iPhone is the only platform your app is made for, you bypass the whole 'tivoization' clause.

Are you crazy? You can just set a -1 funny modifier (I set -2, Slashdot's meme humor rampant and unbearable). If you do that, and browse sorted by highest score, Slashdot has by far the best comments anywhere on the net, aside from certain niche newsgroups.

Well if we are talking about CO2 then you would see the opposite of Karst: CO2 stimulates plant growth tremendously.

Depending on their circumstances, it could also make sense that they would try hardest not to get pregnant at that time of the month.

pagerank is published, but patented.

Perhaps it is just because what Justin.tv is doing is innovative? They were featured on the Today Show early on as well.

Does that really outweigh being transparent in this case? I think one thing that a lot of people admire about YCombinator is how up-front you guys are with everything reasonable to be up-front about.

Only a problem if you are browsing your project with notepad.

If by new you mean 'just as old as', yes.

I hope you aren't pitching a timezone app.