rogerclark

he links to this:

http://www.william.ro/

this is probably not the will.i.am you're thinking of

pretty sure it's because they're all mentally ill, delusional, narcissistic egomaniacs with technology addictions and nothing meaningful to live for besides Y Combinator

what about installing Clojure on the Raspberry Pi, or what about installing Google Closure on the Raspberry Pi

this article doesn't say anything

that oatmeal guy sure does love attention

i bet absolutely no one ever wants to hang out with you

linus is a misanthropic blowhard. as a role model, regardless of whether he signed up for it, he should be embarrassed at his behavior

this is just ridiculous and dismissive of everyone who has ever tried to better themsleves

that guy is such a turd

this story seems a bit manufactured. i get that the kid makes the whole thing more endearing and maybe more poignant, but the writing seems inauthentic and intentionally crafted to drive home the obvious point (a point that every tech-savvy person in our modern world already agrees with)

reddit is a horrible hellhole

this guide isn't even necessary in 2012. people on irc aren't even mean to new people anymore. everyone is boring and nice

whgats it like livin g in japan

even the title of this article smacks of nerd exclusivism/elitism

thanks for helping to perpetuate the idea that smart people in technology are bizarre outcast freaks

because for this purpose, you are all using "old" for "more knowledgeable and superior"

This guy obviously wrote this question to provoke this exact response from people. He's duped all of you into obsessing over nostalgia and thinking/saying you've got a leg up on "today's youngsters."

Nobody who asks this question would need to go to a StackOverflow site to get it answered.

This is pure crap. The jokes suck, the designs are awful and CafePress is garbage.

master list = the alphabet

I also have a lot of respect for people who are willing to teach. But I don't respect teachers that speak of these concepts like they're magic that no mere mortal can understand. This is stuff that everyone can know -- and should know -- and needs to be treated like learning arithmetic, not tensor calculus.

What a joke. Things like this – and the rhetoric on his site – make systems programming look like more of a dark art than it actually is.

If you're a programmer, should know how your computer works; if pointers are too "hard" for you, you're in the wrong business. You're settling for mediocrity and belittling your own intelligence by assuming you're not capable of tackling this stuff the same way everyone else has.

It's interesting to me that so many people in the startup community hate the bureaucracy and overall attitudes in big companies, yet for quite a lot of people, the high-paying exit is the ideal fate for their startups. Exits normally involve one of these big, bureaucratic companies swallowing your company whole.

No. Plants are living organisms that require (relatively) complex cell machinery to carry out photosynthesis. This is a single molecule that can be "charged" but does not change its chemical composition.

The mechanisms that plants (and animals) use for chemically storing energy are useful for living things, but aren't all that great for long-term, large-scale energy storage. In some sense, we already use plants like that (biodiesel) and, in general, it sucks.

I doubt there are many people using Evernote that couldn't figure out what "text editor" meant.

I think his point was more that you can't expect anyone to be genuinely enthusiastic and passionate 100% of the time, even if they're doing something they love. There are times when part of the work sucks even if you're working toward something awesome. Sometimes the periods of suck can last much longer than you'd like.

I love my job, and I'm quite enthusiastic about it most of the time. But on some days I just don't feel good, and sometimes things like meetings can get annoying. Just because I don't enjoy it 100% of the time, all day every day doesn't mean I'm pitiful or that I'm wasting my life.

OkCupid already has a form of this stratification in place. I'm just not sure how obvious it is (or whether people should even know about it).

If people consistently rate your photos higher, after the ratings clear a certain threshold, the system considers you "attractive." The system sends you an email congratulating you and about how "you'll be shown more attractive matches from now on."

TechCrunch is awful. Why does anyone post this crap on HN?

I'm a guy, and I don't have a kid, but "whoopie" is basically what I thought when I saw those other articles.

I would think that a startup -- especially in the initial stages -- would be way easier to manage than a traditional 9-5 tech job you're already heavily obligated to. Of course a startup has a different set of challenges, but not having to attend to rigid meeting schedules and such could be quite a bit easier for child-rearing purposes.

It was easy for us to say this 15 years ago when a super-compact binary protocol just seemed to make oh so much sense, but now I'm not so sure.

The IRC protocol does exactly what it sets out to do, and there isn't really much over-the-wire overhead for client connections. The only information that's repeated unnecessarily is user hostmask data; everything else is mostly 100% useful.

It could really have only been a bit better if each event was described in a JSON- or YAML-like notation, but this was 1988, not 2008.

Compared to tons of other legacy protocols in use today (FTP!?), IRC isn't all that bad.

I'm interested in exactly how you diverged. What changes did you make to the protocol (especially in terms of server-server communication) to facilitate that kind of scalability?

XKCD Explained is much better -- because it has the right perspective; it's explaining the comics to people who already understand them, shitting on the author and his idiot audience.

XKCD is a condescending comic whose audience revels in its own perceived superiority, while any self-respecting nerd with a real sense of humor knows that putting a science or technology reference in a cartoon is not a joke in itself.