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TransientMuse

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TransientMuse··on Ask HN: Does your ACM chapter suck?
My chapter at University of the Pacific doesn't even have a website right now. We have a forum that doesn't get used, and the club is filled with gamers that don't have very much motivation to do anything related to programming. I'm going to try to start an SICP project group next semester, but right now no one's trying to do anything educational or new.
TransientMuse··on Join us at Hacker News Coffee, Palo Alto, Tuesday at 8:30am
Sad. I just moved out of Palo Alto.
TransientMuse··on Supporting a free language study application?
I was going to say much of what mechanical_fish said. Your project is a real product.

I'll definitely give you $20 if you can effectively teach me Icelandic.

TransientMuse··on Ask HN: Would you really use this on a girl?
Aren't they using the same shortcode as chatterous.com?
TransientMuse··on Ask YC: Are you religous?
"A person's religion says a lot about their epistemology..."

Where do you draw this from? Have you any citations you can make? This seems like something I'd be interested in learning more about.

TransientMuse··on Ask YC: Are you religous?
I don't understand how shared assumptions being the basis of logical argument constitutes a flaw. Could you explain this further?

We argue about experiences in science all the time. We do this by documenting steps regarding how we rendered our experience so that other people may also experience what we did and perform measurements and comparisons and analyzations, et cetera, and once we've done that, we can apply other intellectual tools we have, like logic.

How do I render a religious experience for myself?

TransientMuse··on Love: a procedurally generated MMOG written by one guy
Surely another method could be implemented. I don't want to give an upvote to an item before I read it - at least, not in good faith.

Personally, I currently use instapaper.com...

TransientMuse··on Slapp: A simple chat wall Merb tutorial.
So where can I see this in action?
TransientMuse··on Ask YC: Who are YOUR heroes?
Better to take multiple five minute breaks reading something worthwhile than to spend five minutes reading something useless.
TransientMuse··on Glass Bead Network launches (finally)
I have to agree - having to sign up before trying it out stinks. Rig up a robot if you must, or allow only eight moves, or have a separate lobby for unregistered users.
TransientMuse··on Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page
I'm inclined to agree.

Moreover, the US government basically prints money all the time... (in the metaphorical sense)

TransientMuse··on Ask YC: What logo do you prefer
Red implies a problem. I infer that red denotes a problem.