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treo··on Pharen: A lisp that compiles to PHP
> When debugging you have to find the source of the problem in the PHP, though ideally after that you can just find the matching Pharen code and go from there.

You could always just add the S-Expression that became the php code as a comment. From there it should be trivial to find it in the Pharen code.

treo··on Mathematics: The Most Misunderstood Subject
This reminds me of "A Mathematican's Lament" by Paul Lockhart ( http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf ). It is a great read in any case.
treo··on SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning
That is what strato does, it drops the 100mbit to 10 mbit until you unlock it, and this game goes on every 300gb (it starts at 1tb).
treo··on More than you ever wanted to know about Marijuana strains
Recent studies[1][2] have shown that psychosis only may be a risk if you already are prone to it.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=S... [2] http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/16936704/a...

treo··on Issue 10562: Change 'j' for imaginary unit into an 'i'
just add a hat ^ or squiggle ~ over it, or maybe a point, or something else. I always wondered when the Hebrew alphabet would come up.
treo··on Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)
Just one advice: mod_python is more or less dead (Last Release in 2007) you should probably switch to mod_wsgi.
treo··on Ask HN: How important are ergonomics to you?
If you want to use a notebook your main computer I think a docking station is a must. The problem is that, if you want to go with a macbook you there are no really decent docking options for it.
treo··on Python Debugging Techniques
I just tried it and it works
treo··on The Little Secret of Web Startups
The estimate isn't very good, my old site that gets about 300 visits a week is estimated to have about 3800 visits per day. Another one that gets about 100k visits daily is estimated to have about 50k visits. So I wouldn't trust their estimates that much.
treo··on Poll: Do you smoke marijuana?
Could it be that your friends where not that motivated to begin with?
treo··on To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes
I do, and as an added feature I can blame the trackball for playing bad, but in reality I am just as bad when playing with a mouse
treo··on When programmers build websites
This is the image that didn't load in the original submission ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=701968 ).

I don't actually think it is that good, I kept wondering what it is, and I think there are some others who would like to see it.

treo··on [dead]
doesn't really help as the picture is still read from the overloaded server.
treo··on Boilerplate Phrases That Kill Resumes
As you have to login to read it, here is the text:

The Savvy Networker Liz Ryan, Yahoo! HotJobs

The 2009 job market is very different from job markets of the past. If you haven't job-hunted in a while, the changes in the landscape can throw you for a loop.

One of the biggest changes is the shift in what constitutes a strong resume. Years ago, we could dig into the Resume Boilerplate grab-bag and pull out a phrase to fill out a sentence or bullet point on our resume. Everybody used the same boilerplate phrases, so we knew we couldn't go wrong choosing one of them -- or many -- to throw into your resume.

Things have changed. Stodgy boilerplate phrases in your resume today mark you as uncreative and "vocabulary challenged." You can make your resume more compelling and human-sounding by rooting out and replacing the boring corporate-speak phrases that litter it, and replacing them with human language -- things that people like you or I would actually say.

Here are the worst 10 boilerplate phrases -- the ones to seek out and destroy in your resume as soon as possible:

    * Results-oriented professional
    * Cross-functional teams
    * More than [x] years of progressively responsible experience
    * Superior (or excellent) communication skills
    * Strong work ethic
    * Met or exceeded expectations
    * Proven track record of success
    * Works well with all levels of staff
    * Team player
    * Bottom-line orientation
You can do better. What about adding a human voice to your resume? Here's an example:

"I'm a Marketing Researcher who's driven by curiosity about why people buy what they do. At XYZ Industries, I used consumer surveys and online-forum analysis to uncover the reasons why consumers chose our competitors over us; our sales grew twenty percent over the next six months as a result. I'm equally at home on sales calls or analyzing data in seclusion, and up to speed on traditional and new-millennium research tools and approaches. I'm fanatical about understanding our marketplace better every day, week and month -- and have helped my employers' brands grow dramatically as a result."

You don't have to write resumes that sound like robots wrote them. A human-voiced resume is the new black -- try it!

Liz Ryan is a 25-year HR veteran, former Fortune 500 VP and an internationally recognized expert on careers and the new millennium workplace. Contact Liz at liz@asklizryan.com or join the Ask Liz Ryan online community at www.asklizryan/group.

treo··on Astalavista Hack Act 2
If anyone missed act 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642671
treo··on How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
But it is still better then reading from /dev/random
treo··on How to find security holes
I think thats because of what rythie said: "Also canonical.org != the people who make Ubuntu (that's canonical.com)"
treo··on 3D Realms shuts down. No Duke Nukem forever
so hurd will not ship with a copy of DNF, now I am disappointed
treo··on Poll: Where are you from?
Germany
treo··on Twitto: A web framework in a tweet
I think the point is that PHP is a web framework by itself and there is no need for a fancy framework around it.
treo··on Ask HN: Which school do you attend?
TU Darmstadt
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