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Re:[SF] Weebly is hiring! on Saturday December 15, 2007 @09:41PM (#90007)
How non-Godelian of them.
Re:Steve Jobs At Home in 1982 on Saturday December 15, 2007 @12:58AM (#89813)
You own the local grocery store?
Wow, I'm sorry to hear your career is shot.
Re:Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living on Monday December 03, 2007 @11:08PM (#85810)
Read the Myth of Sisyphus by Camus...
Re:Google PageRank, Revisited on Saturday December 01, 2007 @12:48AM (#85182)
Is this hacker news or SEO news?
Re:[SF] Weebly is hiring! on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @08:59PM (#79942)
Hmm, if they didn't make their own website using Weebly, why would I ever want to use Weebly?
Re:Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @05:56PM (#79558)
Sometimes I have a hard problem in front of me. I can't crack it. I go to sleep. I don't dream about it. I wake up. I know the answer. That isn't part of the concious mind and is pure reflex and creative.
Re:How to be a genius on Sunday November 04, 2007 @09:32PM (#76172)
>or, to be truer to the data, perhaps 1 per cent inspiration, 29 per cent good instruction and encouragement, and 70 per cent perspiration.

Wow, these are all in the same unit?

Re:Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science on Thursday November 01, 2007 @05:51PM (#75217)
It is hard to be serious about getting tenure in an English department, which amongst typical universities tend to have orders of magnitude less tenure spots available per actual tenure-track position.
Re:... because Ruby isn't terse enough yet on Sunday October 28, 2007 @02:55PM (#73480)
That should read:

    def foo(n):
        n = [n]
        def bar(i):
            n[0] += i
            return n[0]
        return bar
Python really needs a scoping syntax to allow assignment to closed variables.
Re:Surprising Uses of the Pythagorean Theorem on Friday October 26, 2007 @04:04AM (#72843)
You might want to try that math again; it doesn't work for spheres.
Re:Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project) on Thursday October 25, 2007 @08:09PM (#72736)
Do you know anything about the early history of Microsoft?
Re:Ask News.YC: Best Online Incorporation Service? on Thursday October 18, 2007 @11:36PM (#70138)
If you aren't doing it to make money, and are just doing it for the liability protection, in court that liability protection would be found to not apply to your non-corporation posing as corporation.
Huh? You can literally dump photos to it and just upload them across the internet to your desktop, as long as you have a wifi connection (you mentioned writing emails, which would require wifi as well).
Re:Before you read the YC email or answer PG call, read this. on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @05:48PM (#69297)
Back away, SHARK!
Re:Apple: iPhone SDK officially available in February on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @05:42PM (#69294)
Just pointing out why the GPLv3 is nothing but a pointless complication: as long as your app doesn't come installed on the iPhone by default, it can be licensed GPLv3; Apple can sign the binary, and, as the iPhone is the only platform your app is made for, you bypass the whole 'tivoization' clause.
Re:Design: Voting up or Down is Dead on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @12:26AM (#68401)
Are you crazy? You can just set a -1 funny modifier (I set -2, Slashdot's meme humor rampant and unbearable). If you do that, and browse sorted by highest score, Slashdot has by far the best comments anywhere on the net, aside from certain niche newsgroups.
Well if we are talking about CO2 then you would see the opposite of Karst: CO2 stimulates plant growth tremendously.
Re:Lap dancers earn more when they are most fertile on Sunday October 14, 2007 @05:14PM (#67761)
Depending on their circumstances, it could also make sense that they would try hardest not to get pregnant at that time of the month.
Re:Powerset? on Sunday October 14, 2007 @05:06PM (#67760)
pagerank is published, but patented.
Re:Justin.TV: A Site Warhol Would Relish on Saturday October 13, 2007 @09:19PM (#67525)
Perhaps it is just because what Justin.tv is doing is innovative? They were featured on the Today Show early on as well.
Re:Ask PG: How many applications? on Friday October 12, 2007 @10:59PM (#67136)
Does that really outweigh being transparent in this case? I think one thing that a lot of people admire about YCombinator is how up-front you guys are with everything reasonable to be up-front about.
Re:Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1 on Friday October 12, 2007 @10:42PM (#67124)
Only a problem if you are browsing your project with notepad.
Re:Zombo.com - YC applicant - feedback wanted on Friday October 12, 2007 @10:38PM (#67123)
If by new you mean 'just as old as', yes.
I hope you aren't pitching a timezone app.