va_coder

It's a project that allows the Clojure guys to monetize their work.

Go ahead HN Lisp lovers, kill my karma!

slightly offtopic: The user id - coconuts2314 - looks like a bot. Look at all the submissions and only one lame comment. Shouldn't the HN spam algorithms detect this?

Does Postgres have an equivalent Connect By feature? Last I checked it didn't. If you don't need to scale your hierarchical data much, its pretty handy. I'd prefer to go to Postgres too.

I didn't know this one: ^X ^L

Perl: one man's solution is another man's problem

Why is Amazon so dominant in e-commerce if the working conditions are so bad?

I subscribe to the Economist and listen to it during my commute. Many of their articles are verbose, but it's still better, IMO, than many alternatives.

I work at a company that uses Jive (forum software written in Java) and its a grave yard. I'm really surprised that Yammer is so popular.

People who love C love it, in part, because they are often solving interesting problems with it. Many problems that require C are interesting: embedded software, automated robots, new databases etc. Most problems that C is not good at - Web development - are not that interesting to many people that love C.

"Monsanto won its case against Parr, but the company, which won't comment on specific cases, has stopped its legal action <edit>for PR reasons</edit>against the Runyons."

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-4048288.html

Google is your friend. Here's one of many:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-4048288.html

It's my understanding Monsanto isn't a company that relies on free markets. They use lawyers heavily. If their seeds blow from a customer's farm to a non customer's farm and the non customer doesn't actively try to remove the Monsanto seeds, they sue. They are like the seed mafia.

You have to take everything a hedge fund trader says with a grain of salt. These guys are making bets both upwards and downwards on the same day.

For all I know they've got a program that detects when this article hits the web and that triggers a trade, and then an hour later their program triggers another trade.

Do a search on twitter for whoshere. What a P.R. nightmare.

If they cared about protecting a brand name they should have chosen something more original than 'Who's Here'.

It's useful to me. The amount of words doesn't equal the quality of the content.

When my dad asks if he thinks he should buy some Facebook stock, I can tell him the IPO was more about allowing insiders to sell their stock than raise capital. Red flag

Is it possible to short stock in a non public company?

"Mr. Kaplan, the entrepreneur, argues that by styling itself as an idiosyncratic company that has broken the mold in initial offerings, Google is potentially courting disaster."

Maybe in hindsight he meant the opposite of disaster.

When it's finally released the plan is to change the name right? Diaspora sounds like horrible disease.

Thanks

How do they plan on monetizing their efforts?

Thanks for the reminder Microsoft. I was starting to feel some sympathy for you.

No pricing = No interest

s/Company Menu/Pricing Menu/g

Someone must be able to make a viable business model out of selling Ubuntu on Ultrabooks.

Are pretty sites necessary? I ask because most sites I go to on a daily basis, like HN, Google properties, Amazon, etc are relatively bland.

This whole thread is getting really dangerous

"The gal conducting our training reminds us again that we cannot miss any days our first week. There are NO exceptions to this policy. She says to take Brian, for example, who's here with us in training today. Brian already went through this training, but then during his first week his lady had a baby, so he missed a day and he had to be fired. Having to start the application process over could cost a brand-new dad like Brian a couple of weeks' worth of work and pay. Okay? Everybody turn around and look at Brian. Welcome back, Brian. Don't end up like Brian."

It's amazing we allow this. It should be illegal.

>>What is Canonical bringing on the VPS that is so specific?

Little things, like UFW for easy firewall setup. But you're right Debian is often doing the heavy lifting.

Masochism and Hibernate go together like peanut butter and jelly

For me, Ubuntu on a VPS is always a viable alternative to the PaaS offerings. Canonical's distribution makes it easy to get up and running quickly.

Before you sign up, Twitter asks you to give Prismatic permission to "Post tweets for me", why?