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Another huge difference is that anybody can become a new agent in Bitcoin. You just buy the hardware. You cannot influence or join eBay in the same way.

People are mad because funding the project through kickstarter created some expectations that were not met. Funding through kickstarter feels like you're investing in grassroots human projects, but this made people realize that it's really just business as usual.

Having a degree does not magically make you more qualified, it's the work you put it over the years to get your degree. The paper is useless, but the experience learned remains in your head.

Not sure that justifies dumping DBs altogether, but it's still an interesting advantage.

Also, some programmers don't take satisfaction in writing good code, this article will encourage them to stay in their bad ways, so that's not good. I think this article is good for people who take too much satisfaction in writing good code. Good code is not always an end in itself.

This habit of trying to do too much makes me inefficient sometimes. I aim for quality and in the end I just get nothing - but a headache.

If I can get voting on there, I'll use this instead of vanilla HN.

Good innovation. He went further than simply displaying a pretty bullet list, like others do(digg, etc.).

Plus he included minors innovations that are very clever. For example, the size of the headlines are proportional to it's number of votes. It allows you to see how liked(important) a piece is regardless of it's rank.

It would be cool if the headlines would keep their current style and become links.

It's common for dynamic languages to embed typing information in pointers as an optimization. For example, CLISP uses at least 2 bits to distinguish between common types. That way fixnum numbers can be recognized and added without slow memory accesses.

The result is that you get less bits for the address. Hence less addressable memory.

HN should have esoteric/alternative articles like that at all times.

I'm glad that got you interested in Clojure!

Of course you can do statement-based code, like in any language that supports I/O(Haskell included).

That's a hard fact and it isn't what functional programming is about.

The rest is funnier. Give it a try.

I wonder if they ever thought of providing two interfaces.

1. The first is the common case.

    Document doc = new DocumentBuilder().parse("test.xml");

    Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(opts).newDocumentBuilder(opts2).parse("test.xml");

This just has to be mentionned:

My Seth Godin decline letter. Thoughts?, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=398293