drlisp

Did you use Patrick's Bingo Card Creator for this?

Google Wave is a big deal...what a visionary...LOL

be like me, have your wife do all the work =)

>>Maybe 50, working for 2-3 years, to get a usable first cut and basic standard libraries? Paying them an average salary of 100k, that's "only" 15 million dollars.

I think you are underestimating the man-hours and cost. You will need a Google or some other tech giant to engineer this. Why not improve openJDK?

You should have a points system, where people earn points when the partner verifies the activity was accomplished. Win prizes, etc.

Youre right. I wish them well. Hope they make millions. I just think these talented individuals would have done better for themselves had they not focused on a trendy/hipster social network site (do we need another?) and more on "bootstrappable" software businesses.

Obviously not. These are just a couple MIT/Ivy/Stanford kids who PG liked and decided to give 20k to spend time at summer camp. No one could bootstrap this. The technology inst hard to copy, so if it could be bootstrapped we see a lot of them. Also, it over relies peoples use of Facebook, Twitter.

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

ANTI-theism != atheist

You forgot deism. No way this is covered by "Other"

Also clustering algorithms (k-means et al) used to do a preliminary analysis of NMRI scans

Bayesian spam filtering - machine learning 101

Funny how reports of this bogus conversation can make it to the top of HN, yet the articles I submit on possible future apple products always get deleted. =(

My hypothesis: humans who visit Hacker News masturbate even more often.

Which leads to the question - should one strive to join a startup as an early employee or should one strive to be a cofounder?

For this movie they should have made PG the dad and his son decides to use Java instead of Lisp.

Xavier looks like Carrot Top

Requiring Safari 4: How is that any different than requiring a plugin, unless you just happen to already use Safari?

I think the fact that my comment didnt get downmodded out of existence shows how cool HN is. Nonetheless, the forum shouldnt (routinely?) engage in self-congradulatory homages to PG.

This level of ass kissing makes me want to puke.

wow!