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Re:How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:33AM (#10039710)
The best way of eliminating the hacker ethos is to create economic forces, starving programmers and Ph.D people, low wages so that the search for money is key. Is HN about hacker ethos or about making money?
Re:Ignition: V8 Interpreter on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:29AM (#10039702)
Would it be useful a <hot-code> tag for the purpose of indicating that optimizations are required for the code?

in Lisp we have compiler options (declare (optimize ...))

Re:G is for Google on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:35AM (#10039556)
Now there are two names one for earth (ads) and one for moon (riskier things), earth gives money for moon projects.