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I for one may use Ruby as a scripting language for my next project, I want to see more articles like this.

Big guys have free advertising from piracy, small guys are hurt from the same thing.

Edit: I guess we mis-understand each other -- I didn't mean VERY small guys, who may suffer from obscurity.

This "other side" is exactly what makes low-level languages so powerful.

An example from my own experience: take Django code base, replace Django templates with Mako, replace Django ORM with an existing object database, add some nice features from other web frameworks, glue everything together, write tests and you have a new web framework, yet there's very little new code. Thus I 1. used existing tools; 2. built my own tool at the same time.

That's how I understand the term "postmodern programming".

  import sys
  sys.stdout.write("Hello world!\n")

I was fooled by good Chrome UI design myself, but after careful tweaking of Firefox with good theme and plugins I just can't use Chrome, I switched back to Firefox completely, it's so much better in every way...

Edit: also, there are many new Delphi/Pascal projects, just check out http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ the "True Death" is highly exaggerated.

If you wanted to reinterpret and not misinterpret you should've name it "If you believe that dumb people don't know they are dumb you are likely wrong: all are skill unaware."

I think that the strongest ideas are never really original, they are just better implementations of the existing ones.

For example, MySQL Proxy knows nothing about transactions.

http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/mysql_replicated/en/

I'm not sure whether authors are here or not.

It's only a draft. Everything may change.

Read http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/

Complete example:

  <style type="text/css">
    body {
      height: 100%;
      display: "a   .   b   .   c"  /2em
               ".   .   .   .   ."  /1em
               "d   .   e   .   f"
               ".   .   .   .   ."  /1em
               "g   .   h   .   i"  /2em
               5em 1em  *  1em 10em}
    #logo {position: a}
    #motto {position: b}
    #date {position: c}
    #main {position: e}
    #adv {position: f}
    #copy {position: g}
    #about {position: h}
  </style>

Better no translation than translation like this. Those who don't know English to read original Paul Graham essays may have wrong impression about Paul and his thoughts from such low quality translations.

And I completely agree that "everyone who follows Hacker News knows English and has seen the original, so this post is clearly redundant".

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

press F4 on the first screen and select "Install a minimal virtual machine"

It's ok to be bad in marketing and good in hacking as long as you are not alone.

But Bill Joy is not bald either (or am I mistaken? -- looked only at Wikipedia photo).

I've just recommended it to one person, emailed a link and ... oooops. 500 server error.

Update: now it's up, but I'm still curious.

I have some adult art drawn by myself that just sit there; there should be a way to share it with a real world... I've never even thought about do it with normal hosting company or, "God have mercy", do it on my own servers...

We have dark sides -- we need dark sites. Long Live PRQ!

Edit: please comment if you downmod it, I really want to know what do you think about it.

No Git support makes it unusable for me.

To my eyes it looks like a hidden gem of open-source world, the post is from a guy who wrote Adobe AIR-alike overnight.

Of course it's not polished, ready for everybody, but for those who know Python and like to hack it could be a base for the next killer app.

The most essential dichotomy is between leisure and running for your life, I think.