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It's not a YC startup and it's wildly successful.

michaeltyon George Gilder: Capitalism is based on information and knowledge, not greed

Some places to start:

The Use of Knowledge in Society: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

Economics and Knowledge: http://www.econlib.org/library/NPDBooks/Thirlby/bcthLS3.html

michaeltyon Groupon down 27%, hits new low of $5.50

Don't catch a falling knife.

michaeltyon Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An “Unmistakable Copy” Of The Sims

I believe it's called "casualties".

michaeltyon University of Florida shutting down research in Computer Science department

Thank you, Rick Scott!

michaeltyon Why I use vim

http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home

michaeltyon Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.

"Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension."

(bursts into tears, runs out of room)

michaeltyon Living in China, let me tell you what life is like with restricted internet

"SOPA...It's like handing machine guns to monkeys."

I've gotta try this out as an explanation of SOPA to non-techies.

michaeltyon This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

On that note, some music to listen to while looking through those photos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0F2KfCvhg

michaeltyon Memory modules from Apple.com are 10x market price...why?

16GB RAM Corsair from Newegg for $174.99 (until New Year's Day). Just sayin'.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233...

michaeltyon Memory modules from Apple.com are 10x market price...why?

The same. Bought 8GB RAM for my MBP from them for $50. Feels good man.

michaeltyon Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA

In an email? Whatever.

michaeltyon Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day

Yes.

This is not censoring, this is capitalism in action.

michaeltyon Vim: revisited

(stares in wonder)

michaeltyon Knuth and the Unix Way

Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/664/

michaeltyon A SOPA compromise is floated

Indeed.

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

michaeltyon The single most useful Emacs feature

C-x C-t

Transpose the current line with the previous line.

michaeltyon Solarized color theme for Emacs 24

The author also has Zenburn for Emacs 24.

https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs

michaeltyon The Clojure Community and Me

Makes me wish I were young again.

michaeltyon The Euro falling into a recession?

Intrade has it at 8% that a country drops out of the euro by the end of the year.

http://intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=713738

michaeltyon Senator Joe Lieberman asks Google for a terrorist flagging button on Blogger

The good senator should be flagged for infecting the American public with mind-staggering stupid.

michaeltyon Ask HN: Are ergonomic keyboards really useful?

A good review of the 4000: http://xahlee.org/emacs/ms_keyboard/ms_natural_keyboard_4000...

michaeltyon What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Love this one.

michaeltyon Why Emacs?

Here's the other vi emulation mode: http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home

It even has its own port of surround.vim: https://github.com/timcharper/evil-surround

michaeltyon Why I'm learning Emacs

A nice halfway house: http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home

michaeltyon Steve Losh's .vimrc

1.9 MB compressed...

michaeltyon Steve Losh's .vimrc

I love reading these files and finding something new to use. gdefault is definite going in.

michaeltyon Why do so many technical recruiters suck?

"Subprime recruiting".

"Tech jobs will never go down".

michaeltyon Sonnet for Dennis Ritchie

"Exists, what can it be but information?

Your ghost performs the world’s computation."

Beautiful!