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This reminds me of Neil DeGrasse's Tyson's "two main philosophies in life": http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qccer/i_am_neil_degras...

Tags make it easier to choose which books to examine and which to pass, so maybe just always show them, not only on hover over.

Perú.

If you are into Emacs, magit is rather awesome. Yes, it can do line-by-line commits (you can commit highlighted text).

Linus' feedback would make GitHub ready to support larger projects, regardless of the kernel staying or not.

Supporting larger projects can't be a bad thing, that wouldn't be wasted effort.

My very first webapp (now lost) used a similar idea. I wrote a web text editor in plain CGI with Python to allow users to create and edit an unlimited number of files. What the user saw as files in the UI were directories in my FS that contained one file for every revision, with the filename encoding the date and time of the edit; also, there was a symlink called "current" that pointed to the last revision, so I didn't need to parse the filenames to find out which version to show.

That was when I learned that Linux's FS is reliable, secure and just all-around awesome.

"I regret having done a startup"

That's why I thought that a bad answer to pg asking "how did users find you?" is what the guy from the graph db gave him, "because we are the easiest!". Total marketing talk.

I too thought that the questions were blatantly obvious, yet wouldn't have asked (some of) them myself. This is an indicator of mastery, to make the difficult seem easy.

There's bash in there, and I think there's some Python; some plugins (git-svn) are in Perl. I also wasn't under the impression that there were 10 languages there.

I second this. It baffles me when I see an article with 100+ karma and 5 comments. How can something be so interesting and yet spawn so little discussion? It makes no sense.

FWIW, I'm already liking not seeing the score of comments. I can see how it really contributes to the discussion. Maybe do a poll later to vote for which changes should stick around?

"it is very hard for highly technically proficient people to be nice to everyone"

They being so damn smart does not give them the right to be condescending and insult people who can't keep up. So I'm not as smart as he is, does that make invaluable? Does that give him the right to call me stupid? What if I am doing my best? If my best try isn't really helping, then they should simply ignore me, not attack me. Nothing gives anybody the right to insult people.

It's the guiding principle here on HN: be civil. Just like others need to polish their technical abilities, being nice is something they should work on.

"HN can be gamed quite easily" is precisely what Zed proved yesterday with programming mofo.

I bet pg upvoted

Try opening it with Chrome (seriously)

Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box?

Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.

Command-lines are faster and more flexible than GUIs, because you define your own workflow - you can chain commands together with the unix pipe, pass arguments to commands that are the result of other commands via the backtick and a lot more cool stuff like that. Also, you can type faster than you can point and click. I prefer to keep my hands on the keyboard where I need them rather than having to reach out for the mouse, which is really far away if you think of it - it's 20cm aprox.

Besides, there's a hacker component in using a cmd, because it teaches you how things really work instead of covering that up with a pretty interface that does the job for you.

If these reasons didn't excite you, then maybe you are simply not a cmd guy - which doesn't discredit you as a hacker, I guess. Hackers build things, no matter what their tool of choice is.

It got mine wrong.

Does anybody know who those 4 guys were?

Now, that scrambled my brains. Uncomplex? I thought this was pretty complicated and that mojombo was a scalability God (and he may be).

Could you point me to more complex examples?

Added the date to the title. Sorry about that.

Or using those ideas for anything useful. Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

Spanish is my mother language, I'm fluent in English, did 1.5 years of Chinese, and I'm planning to start with German this year.

If I may offer a suggestion, such a summary would have been tremendously clarifying in the original article, IMHO. Maybe try to add something like that in future posts? :)

If you are offered more money if you get it, even if the extra money doesn't come from the original source, more people will be tempted to apply. "I can do more with more money", "it's not as risky as before", some will surely be thinking.