tomjen

I constantly remember the story of that damn drill, precisely because it is such a good metaphor. It might be worth learning that style of writing.

Attack at night with silenced machine guns - any luck and you have the first ten floors before anybody realize what is happening.

In Denmark that would be an upper middle class car.

CTRL+A, Del. You are never going to catch up in time anyway.

I don't believe that a low birth rate says anything about when people grow up. If it did, teenage mothers would be the most responsible people in society.

I would have voted him up if he was doing AI - the most impressive way to get a phd in AI would be to have your creation defend your thesis for you.

Well it does become abandonware, but that hardly matters - it is still illegal to copy it although I don't think Microsoft is going to complain too much.

Well yes only selling stuff to the US is something that can really turn me of a site, even if their services later becomes available to the rest of us. This isn't the real world, so stop treating us as second rate citizens.

Because unlike cigarettes nobody dies, and a company (thankfully) has the right to make money.

Almost nobody mixes lisp (or derivatives of lisp) and XML - sexpressions are the typical representation of lisp code and are isomorphic to xml.

Well you are partly right, but you can get a lot further and get there faster if you do have a plan.

Well all that proves is that the average person is an idiot. We knew that.

Yes they do exist. They exist because those people are us. Nobody argues that the WSJ was wrong about the data they collected, but they were horribly wrong with their conclusions and assignment of blame.

Mantis is okay - we used it for a (school) project last year, but for what we needed it for it was overkill.

Not really - Joel is smart. He knows that the marginal cost of a frogbuz account is almost nothing but that the price - if the company is acquired - is an entire company that use his software.

It may be true that you mix semantics when you mix tables and html, but you lose little if you do it while you use RoR/Django or any other of the frameworks where there is a central template because you still only need to make changes in _one_ file to affect the hole site.

The Belgians have the same problem with a lot of the shells from the first war lying in the forests - only most of them are actually gas shells, slowly rusting.

As a user if I am actually going to give you money, I would think your service was worth giving my email address out for.

On the other hand I have properly signed up for more than 10 times as many free services as I pay for.

I sure hope they google me - I am apparently with Copenhagen Business school, a filmmaker, a photographer and (twice) a carpenter. Well at least I am no longer a gay porn star.

Woha, you have a spec - I figured there wouldn't be any of that on Hacker News.

Yes, but not just some people, the people who caused the recessions in the first place.

_Please_ don't make more links to private betas, wait until they go public.

There is a large segment of the young people who grow up with access to video, games and music for free and who don't really have a lot of money so they feel that it is wrong if these things aren't available to them.

Second the price for a given item (when traded freely in a free market) is generally declining over time and since the marginal price of all most all web offerings are zero (for all practical purposes) it is possible to underbid the competition all the way down to zero, landing it in the same category as the aforementioned music.

And I don't know if that is a good thing or not (though I suspect it isn't, at least for most start ups) but if that doesn't matter if that is the direction we are heading.

>based on fairness instead of naked greed

Would somebody please send that man a copy of "Atlas Shrugged"? And to every school child too.

Ireland is the preferred tax heaven for many European companies.

Well, we will hack through it.

If you want it to be yes.

They don't care. If just one of these projects pay of, the rest is peanuts.

Out of curiosity, were does one obtain a classical education?

The best way to confirm the identity would properly be to check peoples passports/drivers license. That would prevent trolls.