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Re:Studies find having kids makes people less happy on Monday June 30, 2008 @06:39AM (#231874)
Schopenhauer knew this - fulfilling our biological urges (to pair off and multiply) is in no way related to human happiness. Where biology and happiness butt heads biology is more likely to win.
I always saw Searle's Chinese Room as more of an attack on the Turing Test. Here is a room that will pass the test, yet is in no way intelligent.
Re:Study proves bad guys really do get the most girls on Sunday June 22, 2008 @05:00AM (#224150)
Quality of girl counts for a lot.
I just learned enough awk to alter a tiny script written by someone else. It's so going on the resume.

Seriously - just apply to anything that sounds good - if they really are decent and the position is junior - or if it is a senior position it doesn't revolve around that particular technology - you can learn on the job.

Re:Ask HN: Most desired programming skills in a startup? on Saturday May 31, 2008 @07:44AM (#205220)
for loops.
That's what she said.
Re:Ask YC: Why the degree? on Saturday May 24, 2008 @08:24AM (#198736)
Why the third degree?
Is no one else going to comment on how ridiculously long his tie is?
Re:Bad UI in action: 11 clicks to quit Assassin's Creed on Monday April 28, 2008 @04:27AM (#175464)
I haven't found a UI I liked that wasn't in a text editor.
Re:Poll: Should PDFs and other documents be auto-Scribd'd? on Monday April 28, 2008 @04:25AM (#175463)
improve Scribd so it doesn't mangle pdfs.
Re:How to make Lisp go faster than C on Thursday April 24, 2008 @09:53AM (#172453)
That is a truly horrible file viewer. Allow the user to define how they want their files. No lock in - whoever did this is evil or a moron.