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Usually I read HN comments before the actual article, and as a result I was unaware of the blog's title before reading his comment. It provided value to me, at least.

I still don't get it :/ Where did the 'paul' part come from? (Yes, I'm aware of the play-on-words with the name.)

Can we get some supporting evidence, please? This strikes me as a little unreasonable.

>> " But... You know, there are lots of people out there who >> are good at business, the details of AdWords/marketing, can >> write well, can recruit people, etc"

Just because Patrick isn't the only one to do this doesn't make his accomplishments any less worthwhile. And most of those others don't share their knowledge on HN.

The 'clarify and 'X' buttons show their corners in Chrome, looks a bit messy.

Sounds like somebody's startup idea. Any idea what the software he needs is?

I'm afraid I've missed something here. Anyone care to provide an explanation?

It appears to me that you publish your essays in bursts. Coincidence, or the result of something else, such as working on multiple essays in parallel?

The problem is actually accomplishing the above, instead of just noticing it.

I halfway agree with you - they probably wouldn't try to write something like Halo, because they wouldn't know where to start. Simple, fun games still exist though. Just look at all the Flash ones.

I made this because I found myself getting around noprocrast by opening lots of tabs and not refreshing them. This ought to solve that problem, though it could just be another step in an arms race against myself. Hope someone else finds it useful, any suggestions much appreciated. :)

I've presented before using html/css files. Normally I'd have used Google Docs, but formatting the code separately was too difficult.

"...someone of such low caliber..."? Was that really necessary?

I like the new stories box at the top. If many new stories don't get voted up because people just don't see them, then the box seems like it could alleviate that problem.

I won't pretend to know much about responsibility, but creativity like that needs to be nourished.

I'm not sure why this was downvoted; there are tons of things I think will be easy before I start doing them.

For learning Javascript, I used http://eloquentjavascript.net/ It's really thorough, and if you get stuck somewhere you can email the author for help.

Have you seen this guy? http://www.chrisguillebeau.com/ He shares your interest in travel; you might find it interesting.

Speaking of developing games for it, how does that work? I see the word 'flash' mentioned a few times, is the author talking about the same technology people make games on the Internet with?

_why

I found PG by looking up the Wikipedia article on "Nerd" and going down to the external links, where his "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" article is.

I like it, and I think others will say so once the "OMG it changed!" response goes away.

If you read X as two X chromosomes and Y as XY, you still have genders :)

Mine's also absent, though I suppose that's to be expected: I did it in Python.

Can't a guy trail off if he wants to in this place?

Do we know when? It says invitations will be issued June 1, but not (that I saw) when the event actually occurs.

Senior in high school at 16?

>>"...you tend to display a few more layers of your personality..."

And perhaps your physical self as well.

Can someone provide a rationale for the downvotes? While I feel there's a decent one, I'm unable to articulate it.

"...research supports the likelihood of a genetic basis..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers_syndrome