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Click on the bond button before adding an atom. It cycles from 1 to 3.

The results are rather wrong, i.e offensive to the eye (try creating aromatic compounds), but as a GUI prototype, it's pretty neat.

For the record, I'm not xach. I just saw this on Programming Reddit.

Edit: link http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/854w0/faking_vo...

> It can be looked at both as metahumor and as a piece of postmodern art.

I think this is more of a recursive humor than metahumor.

> myth of business journalism in his "submarine" essay

Fascinating article! Thanks for the tip. Submitted :-)

I suspect that math is hard for bozos, but I actually know tenured CS professors who are total bozos at programming, and probably shouldn't be listened to even regarding minor issues. Publishing fluff papers, going to conferences, writing grant proposals and politicking is all they are good for.

It's pretty hard (even if you are a great programmer). If you are looking to find a great programmer who's available long-term, hire someone who's PROVABLY great and available short-term to do the interviews/search for you. Think Stroustrup or Stepanov if you are looking for C++ programmers. RMS or Steele if you are looking for Lisp programmers, etc.

For every good programmer I know, I know many more who are total bozos who claim to be great and are thought by some to be great.

Well written article, but it would be more relevant, IMHO if it compared Haskell and Clojure, not CL.

> it's why he maintains hundreds of Made For AdSense sites

But doesn't Google know who the owner of each AdSense site is? Eventually, they have to send him a check, after all. And if someone owns a lot of these AdSense sites, doesn't this raise any flags?

4 gebruikers?! It has to be worth reading!

If the number of CPU cores increases significantly, with the individual cores getting much simpler, I wonder if bit twiddling will be back.

Because of its excellent ActiveX control support, of course.

IMHO, you should move to RWH after SICP

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

Kitten. I hate voice mail.

I don't know about "modern" and "expressive", but it's definitely faster, and I really like the fact that the compiler catches 95% of the silly errors I'd make in a dynamically typed language.

> without a database

Why?

I can understand not using a database if this was improving the performance.

Haskell for me.

I'm curious, where does a site like HN have its bottleneck: SQL accesses, server bandwidth, CPU or memory consumption by PLT?

> Reddit commanded at least a few million.

I wonder how much that is per site regular. A typical reddit user probably won't click on ads more than a couple of times per year.

> I know more than a few people who spend no money on "music" but several hundred a year on iPods

Does one have to buy a new iPod every year?

I had no idea that only 85.5% of the population had normal color vision.

I think more specific advice and tips would be useful.

What if more people used drugs and the related crime and accidents went up?

But that's a redditism too. Ironic, isn't it?

good point, but still drug use would likely go up

I didn't RTFA, but the answer seems obvious:

    cat > file_to_be_rewritten

HTH

Not exactly. If your doctor treated you while on crack, you probably have grounds for a malpractice lawsuit. Overall, I'd expect drug use to increase, once drugs are both legal and cheaper.

Wow! This is worth diving for!

> Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?

Sounds like a lawsuit.

I've had a little bit of wine, so you'll have to pardon my honesty: I think Python is a crap language with a great syntax. I'd rather use C++ when performance is very important, or Haskell, when it's not.