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So, I read this article early today. Then later, I was just googling interesting things, and thus surfing ensued...

I landed here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090119104804AA...), and noticing the nature of the comments/avatars. Do you think it would be possible to find "reliable"-confirmation that "even on the internet", 'female personalities', in situations where one would expect 'care ethics' to be emergent on the social graph (perhaps health care industry), could one find numerical-"confirmation" of the one-to-one vs one-to-many interactions hypothesized in the article?

...or is that just a cyclical thought... a bias?

When I'm (attempting) a critical listening of music. I prefer to explore it in it's larger context (typically as an album). Some 'albums', definitely not all CDs, have a greater architecture than any one song can completely embody, and thus the work is more meaningful in the larger context. (Think conceptual albums, etc.)

But I would definitely consider my casual day-to-day listening as song based.

I wonder if we'll be able to have IBM:DeepQA and Wolfram:Alpha compete against each other at Jeopardy...

I recently finished reading Mythical Man-Month. That book is awesome. It's like Sun Tzu's Art of War, but for programming complex software systems.

Well put smoody. I've been trying to decide where I wanted to go next (boston and boulder among them), and my choice just crystallized. Thanks.

You could look where Ray Kurzweil gets some of his data points for "The Singularity is Near". If you serious you could check around for a similar academically compiled list of "significant" historical events. (I think Ray mentioned doing something just like this...)

Further more, I'll mention there is some crazy Russian who thinks our modern calendars (Gregorian) are an elaborate hoax. But, as I understand it, he had someway of applying algorithms to historically "significant" data points. (If you're actually interested, reply and I try and find his name again.)

...FWIW

Sorry, their site went down for maintenance shortly after I submitted...

I found another copy here: http://www.mindswap.org/~aditkal/research/papers/ontoSW/ont-...

At my HS, when you were a junior/senior they had a deal where you could attend classes at a tech institute for free. I spent two weeks learning about wiring offices (pull cables, etc) before I decided I'd rather go the social development route in school.

But for a lot of folks, a technical degree from one of these places could be a real leg up in finding a comfortable paying job without incurring college debt.

This might be a silly question, but could anyone recommend a solid resource on case studies of fairly recent startups?

...wait a second, a stupid detector is going off in my head, let me check something real quick... (googles "founders at work")... well that's the one -- curiously I hadn't read it's synopsis before...

I would still be interested in further reading suggestions though if other books come to mind.?

I second web service load testing.

...speaking of slow... I just found out why my shell was so slow: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/11/08/update-g...

Have they gone to plaid?

Any thoughts on how google-integrated tools like HNSearch (webmynd) will play a role in the present-future of the post-google-"search monopoly"?

makes me want to learn lisp, but not until I'm speedy in python

LISP, you're next and I do expect to have my mind thoroughly blown when I 'get it'... I was thinking about code-emitting and meta programming in C#, and I realised that what you're really after is access to the AST... which I hear LISP lays bare..

Erm, I get protocal erros when I attempt to run the first test.

If they started to support torrents, they could slap an RSS feed on it and you could pull them into Miro.

This is great. I've been watching some lectures online recently and found myself wishing for a good consolidated site. I wish there catalog was a bit bigger, but with luck this will grow. I wish they had some social tools too. Like a forum for each lecture for people to discuss and ask questions.

You might be able to use twitter as your sms bridge. Also, I don't think carriers change to email out sms. Most carriers let you send an sms by emailing: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/939/sms_email_cingular_nextel...

Maybe this should be a separate 'Ask HN', but...

Previously over the last 6 years I've coded in PERL, PHP, JAVA, and C#.

I'm currently 'retraining' myself over to Python for scripting and web programming (django).

I plan to stick with Java and C# for the time (our shop is about 50/50 split over SOA boundaries). And I want to keep fresh in these as my bread winner languages until I get out on my own. (Not to mention with the advent of Jython/IronPython, and Clojure it might not be bad to really dig some heels into the JVM/CLR idea.)

BUT, after I finishing working through AIAMA in Python. I want to get to work on picking up a lisp dialect and work through SICP. So I was curious, what would be a better angle of attack: Scheme, CL, or Clojure. I'm drawn to the idea of Scheme as it's been painted as a simple language to explore 'deep CS' concepts. But, Clojure sticks with the JVM/CLR strategry.

Would I be missing out if I didn't start with CL? (it sounds like the Latin of programming languages)

Are Lisp dialects (at least those mentioned above) more similar than different; or, How difficult is it to switch dialects?

Is Clojure specifically a bad choice for working through SICP?

further study: Vantage Point, (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443274/

like open a twitter acount, and pull it for pm match on user name, parse out time in '4pm(-5pm) <text-descriptor>', and also use dm to send sms responses..

anyways, nifty

is there a way I can hit this service via sms message?

what I'd like to do to try this out be able to TommorrowIt from my phone, have it sync with google calendar, and either you or google or hack delivery today's tasks in the morning back via sms.

That background looks an awful lot like ubuntu's.

I'm not a shell expert, but I wanted something unix like when work dictated that I would be on XP, so I downloaded Windows PS. Maybe I have an old machine, but it was sluggish, it didn't seem to share the same system environment variables to the point of annoyance.

Feature request:

It would be cool to have the option to see HN comments in chronological order (with second order being hierachy) but still with otherwise standard point-marking/voting. I think this is a feature I've been secretly wanting in sites like reddit and HN, because I think it is fundamentally different to watch a conversation unfold. Like pure chronilogical markers so one could step through the conversation as it happens; hopping from anchor to anchor in the order they first appeared...

because that would be sweet...

though I'm sure pg's concept of object code is outpacing-ly more resolute than my own,... I really do think I agree.

at least not worse than msft: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://w3.org/

I'll tell you what would be awesome. A peer reviewed hacker reading list. But, only the really sacred books. For instance GEB or from the post that prompted this post, after reading that review, I can tell you it will absolutely be my next non-fiction book. I've been wanting to read through some old textbooks to try and pick up somewhere I might've left off, but always found them distancing. This looks like a great way to dive back into it.

May be good advice, but aren't they giving it out a little late?