Hacker News Reader

owlson Are We Giving Google More Than We Get?

Google is God. Someone lynch these heretics.

owlson Ask HN: Would you use a interview database?

Don't give away your ideas before you even start coding.

Yeah this is true.

I'd like to use this space to say don't become an intern at some sleaze bag's company. Make sure they pay you more than they do at Taco Bell.

owlson What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack?

How many of these things can one really be missing and still call themselves a programmer? I'm self taught myself. Pointers? Really? You can learn pointers in about 20 minutes.

owlson Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity

Nuclear power is cleaner than coal or oil.

We just need to build stronger and safer reactors.

Personally I'm glad OP posted this article. Fukushima was tragic, but it didn't give everyone the right to abandon rational thought.

I used to work for a state pirg banging on doors to complain about nuclear power. Spreading fear by barking "3 mile island, chernobyl" etc. Then one day I knocked on the door of a nuclear physicist and he explained to me why I was wrong.