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One of us is having a bad day :) You may not actually mind talking to me normally, if we met across the street. But that's just the optimist in me speaking.

And one of us is refusing to read & discuss the portion of the post that is actually interesting for an engineer.

I am not so hugely popular to do be able to disservice to my country with a short post on HN. Since we are on the subject of countries, I hope you are not from the US. Because, my friends there have an awesome HQ (hint: they actually laugh heartily watching Colbert Report and Daily Show).

You have a fertile imagination, I agree, but in the eagerness to call me names, you've let a word slip: s/imaginary/imagery

Can I post this exchange to the readers of DNRC ? Can't keep so much fun to ourselves, can we?

Hey, have fun :)

BTW, know anyone in Bangalore who fit our needs? Our entire engineering runs from here. Shufflr - our social video discovery app - is taking off well on phones (iPhone and Android) as well as on the web (http://shufflr.tv).

Our platform on the cloud that powers all these apps, needs to be scaled for the next order of magnitude in the next couple of months. Please spread the word if you know anyone. Thanks!

There was this (wo)man who slapped her/his psychiatrist during an ink-blot test.

Until you brought it up, we never thought of our candidates' sexual orientations. We do test for adequate blood circulation to the brain, though.

If you can point out which part of the post is bloody and which part is awful, I will send a new manuscript in triplicate, for your proof reading and editing, Sir.

I didn't know there existed humour-vaccums in the HN space time continuum. I prescribe one page of Wodehouse with your morning coffee and two strips of Dilbert before bed.

Neither is a super busy geek's answer. I'll take it :)

I was a long time cvs user. Could hack it to do what I wanted. Switched to git ~2yrs ago; not so easy to bend but its complexity is one of its main attraction for me.

Thanks for the one of the few sane comments on this thread. I'll buy you some coffee, if you walk the streets of Bangalore.

Only if the answer that first jumps at you is in poor taste. Think about it.

Awesome choice :)

BTW, that's the 2nd best choice one can make. Think.

And, I forgot to mention that breakfast with Linus is a charity event with a cover charge of 100 USD. Would you still wakeup early and run for it?

Thanks! I was wondering if it was just me all alone, amongst a crowd of inappropriately politically correct.

You are single handedly pulling up the average HQ of this thread :^) I owe you a pizza.

And what is your opinion on the technical part of the post?

Daniel, how diverse does this team look? http://www.altheasystems.com/about.html

We have not tested/interviewed you. So, the question of your working for us is hypothetical, at best.

The post is mine. Didn't know it was posted here by my friend. Thanks to him, real hackers who care about the trade are already mailing me about the engineering part of that post. Both men and women. The following part of the comment is for the sensitive rest.

Hey guys,

(I hope, in modern urban culture, 'guys' is a sexually neutral term; Else, I will have to address the some of the sensitive readers as Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms ...; Let me know)

Sincere apologies are in order:

* To all men and some women whom my post offended because I didn't mention their favourite starlet

* To all women and some men whom my post offended because I didn't mention Brad Pitt and David Hasselhoff

* And to all others who are not Scott Adams' readers

Some of the best computer science engineers I have worked with are women. And I don't hire based on the brand of their nail polish.

You are welcome. The pleasure is mine.

Congrats Matt et.al. Been following your steady progress. Good luck in the days ahead.

Cool stuff :) Played with it briefly. Need to find a way to see only unread mails in my priority inbox. gmail allows doing a "is:unread is:important" to get there (apart from the straight route of clicking on the priority-inbox link).

BTW, though vmail intro talks of Vim 7.3, I am not seeing any issue with getting vmail on my Vim 7.2. Guess it is recent enough.

Here's the link for those who didn't read Theo's email: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&#...

Bob, my logic is probably illogical. And my premise may hold only in a limited context.

But how does one logically prove a statement of the kind "X is good" (independent of "Y is evil"). Mathematically (predicate logic wise) speaking, Proof by intimidation, Proof by personal-belief and Proof by assertion / repeated-reassertion don't hold up either.

Consider this philosophy: I am good. Because I believe that to be true. Thus, what's good for me is good for the rest of the world. And anything else is bad. So, I now use my might whichever way to annihilate the bad.

Anyway, (ostensibly) the US has taken upon itself, the role of championing freedom and democracy across the world. There are probably no better beacons than its founding fathers, to guide its actions while playing that role.

Unless he was operating out of a safe haven nation.

:) Yes, your satire more or less captures the broad argument of the govts involved/affected, against wikileaks. (I just took the liberty to assume it was a satire and doesn't mean the verbatim).

Analogies have limited reach, agreed :) The script has changed a bit now. It is the US & UK diplomats working secretly. Since they are working secretly, we do not know what they are trying to do, but it is quite possible they are not thinking of his welfare.