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Re:HN Parents Google Group on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:44PM (#1839643)
Curating HN content regarding parenting would be a worthwhile effort because of posts like this. I've been pleasantly surprised with HN's willingness to share thoughts on the subject. Here is a good start: http://www.google.com/search?q=parenting%20site:news.ycombin...
Re:Ask HN: Please help a virgin blogger. on Thursday September 30, 2010 @02:42PM (#1744330)
You are an extremely valuable contributor to HN. Reposting your HN comments is great way to start blogging. I think you will eventually feel the urge to post original content once you see how rewarding blogging can be.

1-I would leave comments on. You never know when someone might have an extremely valuable tidbit to share.

2-up to you. 20 is as acceptable as 100.

3-Not lame

4-cool

Re:FBI Reportedly Looking Into Angelgate on Saturday September 25, 2010 @06:19PM (#1728010)
From the peHUB post[0] cited in the article: >Arrington declined to say if he had been contacted by law enforcement officials.

Could law enforcement force Arrington's silence if he was contacted directly? Or can we expect another post by him titled, "So the FBI walked into my office..."?

[0] http://www.pehub.com/83069/angelgate-is-“100-percent-accurat...

Re:The Genius of the Tinkerer on Saturday September 25, 2010 @05:05PM (#1727853)
>The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

What a beautiful thought for the entrepreneur in all of us.

Re:Zed Shaw is teaching two four-week Python classes (online) on Friday September 24, 2010 @01:34PM (#1724491)
I'd love to take a Mongrel2 class from Zed. Codelesson is new to me - I must explore...
Re:Ask HN: Should I or Why should I bother continuing with rails on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @09:45PM (#1714870)
I'm also new to web development (I have no where near 4 years of experience). Do you understand object oriented programming enough to explain it to a programming newbie? If not, you need to take a class. No amount of Railscasts/Peepcode vids/Rails books will teach you OOP, and yet Ruby and Rails require a working knowledge of it. I know PHP is an OOP lang, but you may not have used it that way.
Re:My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @07:50PM (#1714580)
Seems like the brc meant "potted plant"
Re:Patrick's greatest hits on Thursday September 16, 2010 @11:40PM (#1700034)
When is your book release Patrick? ;-)
Re:Email overload? Try Priority Inbox on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @02:09PM (#1650289)
I think HNers generally disagree with your statement:

This new feature GMail have announced is trivial and unimportant compared to many other features they could release.

The gmail team is not known for adding trivial or unimportant features. They probably deserve more credit than you are giving them.

Also, I'm not sure how delegation and folder sharing are related to email. Perhaps you could elaborate?

Re:Russian Math Genius Rejects $1 million Dollar Prize on Friday July 02, 2010 @03:41PM (#1482121)
I think it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Re:Ask HN: How can I get better at design? on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @02:54PM (#1475785)
Another good typography resource: http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/
The title is "Gattaca" for a reason: four bases found in DNA are adenine (abbreviated A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). It's fantastic movie IMO.
Re:Introducing Google Command line Tool on Friday June 18, 2010 @03:46PM (#1443391)
Re:Review of Ayn Rand on Sunday June 13, 2010 @12:23PM (#1427635)
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan details his own relationship with Ayn Rand in his book The Age of Turbulence. I don't have the book or I'd pull direct quotes. But the gist is that he had an immense respect for her and she was a meaningful influence on his life.

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