From the site: "This is a common error of usage", 'the erroneous "modern" usage' This tells me that the author completely misunderstands how language works. It assumes that there is a 'correct' way of using a word, and…
Or in HN terms: A function that adds 2 to a given number, but is called 'subtractTwo()', compiles without problems. The name and the meaning don't have to match. ps. epic post!!
You could save a lot of money, by just asking PG to write a declaration of independence...
That page of the comic in the article, reminds me of this video of Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831375
No gopher names? Oh, well... my GopherDaddy! empire probably wouldn't have been very successful anyway..
How do I get a gopher domain-name?
Possibly. But these are the cool questions that make Hacker News Hacker News and not Digg.
Is that headline a Jonathan Coulton reference?
I'm sorry.
Oh, yeah Knol. Is that still around?
And of course inflation.
I think we already have that here in Denmark. If I understand the concept correctly, that is.
maaan, I just started doing research into doing something like that... crap.
The same thing happens with old google.
How do they do it? Is each frame created with HTML/CSS?
No, it's a £10.000 competition.
It might be the socialist in me, but schools should always be public. No business should be involved in educating the next generation. I think of universities more like a R&D department for the general public.…
BRL-CAD. BSD. Bind. There are quite a lot of them, actually.
At the risk of sounding ignorant, what is zappos? I've never heard of them.
This wouldn't happen on Digg.
If the triangle would get the same colour-scheme, then it would be equally obvious. Of course it would be better if it was animated.
This could actually go well with the CrunchPad.
Firefox 100% (It's not live yet, I'm the only user :-)
I love this one: Seasoned Hacker % cc -o a.out ~/src/misc/hw/hw.c % a.out Hello, world.
From the site: "This is a common error of usage", 'the erroneous "modern" usage' This tells me that the author completely misunderstands how language works. It assumes that there is a 'correct' way of using a word, and…
Or in HN terms: A function that adds 2 to a given number, but is called 'subtractTwo()', compiles without problems. The name and the meaning don't have to match. ps. epic post!!
You could save a lot of money, by just asking PG to write a declaration of independence...
That page of the comic in the article, reminds me of this video of Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831375
No gopher names? Oh, well... my GopherDaddy! empire probably wouldn't have been very successful anyway..
How do I get a gopher domain-name?
Possibly. But these are the cool questions that make Hacker News Hacker News and not Digg.
Is that headline a Jonathan Coulton reference?
I'm sorry.
Oh, yeah Knol. Is that still around?
And of course inflation.
I think we already have that here in Denmark. If I understand the concept correctly, that is.
maaan, I just started doing research into doing something like that... crap.
The same thing happens with old google.
How do they do it? Is each frame created with HTML/CSS?
No, it's a £10.000 competition.
It might be the socialist in me, but schools should always be public. No business should be involved in educating the next generation. I think of universities more like a R&D department for the general public.…
BRL-CAD. BSD. Bind. There are quite a lot of them, actually.
At the risk of sounding ignorant, what is zappos? I've never heard of them.
This wouldn't happen on Digg.
If the triangle would get the same colour-scheme, then it would be equally obvious. Of course it would be better if it was animated.
This could actually go well with the CrunchPad.
Firefox 100% (It's not live yet, I'm the only user :-)
I love this one: Seasoned Hacker % cc -o a.out ~/src/misc/hw/hw.c % a.out Hello, world.