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Re:Ask HN: Does your ACM chapter suck? on Monday December 15, 2008 @04:34PM (#398855)
My chapter at University of the Pacific doesn't even have a website right now. We have a forum that doesn't get used, and the club is filled with gamers that don't have very much motivation to do anything related to programming. I'm going to try to start an SICP project group next semester, but right now no one's trying to do anything educational or new.
Sad. I just moved out of Palo Alto.
Re:Supporting a free language study application? on Monday August 04, 2008 @03:46PM (#266667)
I was going to say much of what mechanical_fish said. Your project is a real product.

I'll definitely give you $20 if you can effectively teach me Icelandic.

Re:Ask HN: Would you really use this on a girl? on Friday July 25, 2008 @02:10PM (#256910)
Aren't they using the same shortcode as chatterous.com?
Re:Ask YC: Are you religous? on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @02:09PM (#254568)
"A person's religion says a lot about their epistemology..."

Where do you draw this from? Have you any citations you can make? This seems like something I'd be interested in learning more about.

Re:Ask YC: Are you religous? on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @02:07PM (#254562)
I don't understand how shared assumptions being the basis of logical argument constitutes a flaw. Could you explain this further?

We argue about experiences in science all the time. We do this by documenting steps regarding how we rendered our experience so that other people may also experience what we did and perform measurements and comparisons and analyzations, et cetera, and once we've done that, we can apply other intellectual tools we have, like logic.

How do I render a religious experience for myself?

Re:Love: a procedurally generated MMOG written by one guy on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @02:01PM (#254558)
Surely another method could be implemented. I don't want to give an upvote to an item before I read it - at least, not in good faith.

Personally, I currently use instapaper.com...

In depth: The Pirahã tribe (Number-challenged Amazonians)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto?currentPage=all

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235862 reminded me of a much more in depth (and thusly much more fascinating) article on the Pirahã.It touches heavily on Noam Chomsky's big language theory as well as the soft Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

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Re:Slapp: A simple chat wall Merb tutorial. on Monday April 21, 2008 @04:49AM (#169226)
So where can I see this in action?
Re:Ask YC: Who are YOUR heroes? on Saturday April 05, 2008 @10:05PM (#155941)
Better to take multiple five minute breaks reading something worthwhile than to spend five minutes reading something useless.
Re:Glass Bead Network launches (finally) on Friday March 28, 2008 @01:27PM (#148670)
I have to agree - having to sign up before trying it out stinks. Rig up a robot if you must, or allow only eight moves, or have a separate lobby for unregistered users.
Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @03:15AM (#139663)
I'm inclined to agree.

Moreover, the US government basically prints money all the time... (in the metaphorical sense)

Re:Ask YC: What logo do you prefer on Sunday March 16, 2008 @07:26PM (#138504)
Red implies a problem. I infer that red denotes a problem.