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Wordpress drops support for IE6 would be a much better title, as it described the article content

The application is actually in the form of answers to questions stored as a repo on github

I think this relates to the whole problem of student loan repayment. It would seem that if you get an engineering degree from an in-state public school, you should have no trouble getting a job and making the payments. However for those who got a humanities degree from an expensive private school, I imagine it's much more difficult.

I think our educators and parents need to start emphasizing picking STEM majors over humanities, because STEM majors will be able to repay the loans easier. Or, if you really want a liberal arts degree, just double major that with an engineering / CS degree.

Link to the site: http://tutorspree.com

Fwiw, I'm a programmer and not attracted to artists. I think art is fine if you want to do it, but it can be hard to make a living that way. I also don't think going to college for art is a great idea, because that major doesn't help you pay back the loans. Now if you can go for free that's another story

Also, programming can often be art. Think of Quine programs.

I don't see this replacing cash registers. Think of places like the grocery store. Porting all that coupon / discount code?? Too much work

I would prefer a choice for the same price, no matte surcharge

I also find 16:9 to be way more common than 16:10, such that all the high resolution 27" monitors I found were all 16:9!!! I prefer 16:10 fir the extra vertical space. More lines of code

Why not take 16:9 and do portrait orientation?

Re: #3... This is not an issue if your screen has sufficient brightness. I got a Dell u2410 and it's matte and seriously bright

For facebook, considering how often stuff is broken.. I Think perl or php would've done a fine job.

For youtube, I think the pull is uploading / watching videos online, and it just doesn't have anything to do with the language they picked.

For Twitter, I'm not sure how it's successful in the first place, but I do feel like there was a lot of enthusiasm in the ruby community, simply because they were based on ruby. So if they picked say php, would they have had that early cache of users? I don't think so.

Facebook and YouTube yes. I am unsure about twitter.

I think it influences success, but predicting that influence... is not easy

Here's a public repo, if nothing else it's a mirror https://github.com/nex3/arc/

This looks pretty cool, do you have any plans to do more with this DSL?

I agree. If you get an idea for a product / website, it's easy to get caught up in using rails or django or nodejs etc... And then there's the steps of which plugins to use. It's very easy to get no work done, and spend all your time setting up the perfect project.

A search function or tag system would be good

Is there a need for this?

I've never had a need to search for social networks that meet my interests

link to the demo http://cansdemo.heroku.com/browser

video describing what they plan to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcrVzWVo4Fs

Based on the video, I think maybe diaspora would serve this purpose better.

Learn clojure. There are paying jobs for clojure developers

Despite the misleading title, Watson is not going to medical school. He's being fed medical information for 2 years to train him.

what's the end goal here? The article notes that one of the sites re1ease.net simply registered another domain name re1ease.net.in ... So they're still up and running.

In the future are these sites going to be accessed via static ip?

Interesting that it has partial node.js compatibility

This is a really polished app. I've noticed a lot of the other hacker news readers in the app store lack features or have weird UI

how are you making money with it?

I put all my domains on http://www.namecheap.com?aff=18181

(Disclaimer, that's my affiliate link)

As far as I know, masters in psych or education, doesn't necessarily get you much in the way of pay.

here's a link that works for comcast users http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepirateb...

I don't use the site, but I also don't think comcast should determine which sites you have access to.

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