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godoc -http=:8888 is very cool, too. It gives you most of golang.org on localhost, for speed and when you're offline.

What's more, it includes the documentation of your own code and all installed third-party packages under "Packages", as long as they are on GOPATH.

This book isn't for you, then. I understood it as an introduction to programming, using Go.

The official Go website http://golang.org has everything you need, including the spec [1] and the insightful Effective Go [2].

[1] http://golang.org/ref/spec

[2] http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

The title of this submission is in fact totally wrong. Rakudo has quarterly releases. Perl 6 is not finished.

I have a Toshiba Portege Z835 (13", thins, SSD) and am very happy with it. Everything works under Ubuntu, including suspend/resume, changing screen brightness and volume with function keys and that stuff. The build quality is not the toughest, but it's pretty cheap, too.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

You could at least read the site's guidelines before complaining.

Zurich, Switzerland. Public transport is very good. With the car-sharing company Mobility it's easy to book a car by the hour if needed. That plus normal car-rental for longer trips comes out cheaper and more hassle-free than owning.

It should be something that's orthogonal to screen size. Maybe have a slider somewhere on the page that allows you to zoom in and out of the content.

Interesting, thanks. Do you think one could use only one of the two narrow shelves and put a large screen on it? Can it support the weight? That way you could have keyboard and screen at different heights.

I'm a bit torn over the RAM limit of 4GB. It's ok now, but if I buy a machine in that price range I'd like it to be good a couple of years.

Emacs org-mode (http://orgmode.org/) seems to provide most of your requirements. Haven't used it myself, though.

In Switzerland, you're banned if you stayed in the UK for longer than a few weeks, during the BSE years. That seems to make a bit more sense.

I'm doing ai-class and I find it just fine. After the first two weeks, all the technology worked just fine - what problems are you referring to?

The video editing is also fine. If such minor issues break your rhythm, you might need to rethink your approach to the lessons.

Given that there are still thousands of students in the class and enjoying it, it didn't "fail" at all.

Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach (Russell & Norvig), while doing ai-class.com. Great writing for a text book.

Coders at Work (Seibel).

Thanks for the correction, I missed the "on the web" part.

I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.

I appreciate your effort. The questions are interesting, and it's educational to read through the answers since the problems are the right size, more than just "find the right Emacs library function" but short enough to read through in a few minutes.

The changes are not "random", just because you don't know about the thoughts and testing that went into them.

Mac made a huge all-breaking change with Mac OS X. That only occurs every few years, but as you say, Gnome 2 is ten years old. Then Lion introduced all kinds of workflow-breaking changes, like the automatic spelling correction, the "overview mode" or whatever it's called, the reversed scrolling. And you have to suck it up that much more on Mac OS, because there's just no way to install a different version of the interface.

I see the difference between a server and a library, but both can often be used for the same use case. Just recently I evaluated a few data stores for a project and I didn't care all that much about the distinction. For the servers you're gonna use an API for your programming language anyway, so the programming model isn't that different.

Thanks for posting the summary. I imagine it helps forming a somewhat coherent group.

Some of your activities could be a good inspiration for the next HN Zurich meetup, which reminds me...

It doesn't say whether you're supposed to give gross or net income. Can make a huge difference when comparing countries or even states.

What software do HNers use to make good diagrams? We have one suggestion for TikZ so far, which looks nice, but I don't really want to get out the TeX hammer for every little diagram.

I'm not sure if it's "almost done". I bought the MEAP (early access) a long time ago, and for months nothing happened at all. Then a second author came on board to get things moving.

A few days ago I got an update from Manning:

    "What's new?
    Chapter 2, "Testing and Debugging" has been added.
    Chapter 3, "Functions are fundamental" has been revised.

    What's next?
    Our next update will be coming quickly, with revised versions of Chapter 4 on closures and Chapter 5 on object-orientation with prototypes.

I haven't bothered yet to actually look at the PDF, it sounds like it's still in a rather early stage.

This article essentially says "practice any sport, whenever and wherever, just keep at it". While that's not wrong, it's not very useful.

For me personally, scooby1962's videos on Youtube were really helpful. Great advice on building muscle without doing crazy stuff, not requiring a gym and almost no equipment.

Integrating CoffeeScript and cleaning up JavaScript code are not "real" problems either. Just like with new programming languages such as Clojure it's about improving the tools used to solve real problems.

With a bug like this, an install script without root permissions can still wipe out your $HOME when messing around in the dotfiles. Scary!

I think anything from 200 to 500 would work well. Anything at or over 1000 is problematic since to get that you need to be quite active on the site.

I think if anything, it's not restrictive enough. The idea is that HN acts as a community filter for membership, and 200 is really not much for an active member of the community.

I'd be interested in that code. There's lots of static site generators out there already--and like so many procrastinating nerds I wrote my own--but it'd be a nice real-world example of Go and its Template package.

Exactly. He uses Disqus for comments, so it could actually be a static site. No worries about performance, caching, load, security anymore (almost).

I'm not convinced it would actually work, but what the OP probably meant is that the pharma companies would pay the certification companies so they could put a "Certified by X" sticker on their packaging. The better X would certify, the more they could ask from the pharma company, so the market would reward proper certification.