davidmathers

Historically this has been true, but nowadays it's not (at least in the US).

Not true in 1990. Very true today. The Bush tax cuts inaugurated the current era of class warfare. I'd say 2010 is when it really got going.

Previously: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/zuckerberg.html

A presentation by SPJ left me with the impression that FP should be pointing to Miranda and several other languages that became Haskell, rather than to Haskell itself.

Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164391

Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024101

Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668198

The Cato paper that Branson references was written by salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald and is available to read online at Cato's website: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080

The equivalent is actually "A copy of Oracle at home." SAP started with just the ERP product.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans

It's the one with this disclaimer: "New activations only. Available exclusively in-store at Walmart, on Walmart.com, and T-Mobile.com."

They also released this $200 phone to go along with the plan: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/samsung-exhibit-ii-4g-to-...

No.

apropos: http://valerieaurora.org/kitchen.html

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...

Yeah, that's what I'm using now.

I'd buy this if I could use it as an MPD client.

This is similar to the complaint 37 Signals had with Get Satisfaction: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else

$50 to the person in the office who can keep a recruiter on the phone the longest using only Emacs Eliza.

I think you should take it to the next level and use the zippy quotes from psychoanalyze-pinhead.

Three: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385608n

Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now.

Right now 14 of the top 15 stories are about Dennis Ritchie.

Nietzsche isn't calling you a slave. He's saying that your morality is a slave morality. Meaning your moral system was invented by people who were, in fact, at the time, slaves.

How anyone feels about that is up to them. He mostly just wanted to point it out.

Harvard is not fungible.

1. You're attacking a straw man, which actually is a fallacy.

2. Even if the passage you cited were about "getting less in an absolute sense", there's still no fallacy. zafka already pointed this out in his #1 above. What's so hard to comprehend?

It was a late 80's / early 90's thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism#History

"Ten days" is a verbatim quote from Brendan.

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...

I've been reading Gilad Bracha's blog for a while. He believes the future belongs to languages that compile to javascript.

The OP doesn't even mention that Hemingway was a one-time KGB spy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/09/hemingway-failed...

I tried Googling, but why are Scala and Haskell automatically classified as "academic"?

Because they are inspired by 20th century mathematics rather than 18th century mathematics. This quote from wikipedia explains it:

These developments of the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of 20th century were systematically exposed in Bartel van der Waerden's Moderne algebra, the two-volume monograph published in 1930–1931 that forever changed for the mathematical world the meaning of the word algebra from the theory of equations to the theory of algebraic structures. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra

The academic languages are the ones aware of that change in the meaning of the word algebra. Everyone learns Euler in high school. Nobody learns Mac Lane.

Samsung also makes cars: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/14/renault-samsung-previews-...

Well, Benjamin Pierce has a 600 page book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162091/

Followed by a 600 page book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162288/

George Soros shorted $10 billion worth of British Pound and then made $1 billion in a single day. I don't know what would have happened if things had gone the other way but I think he was mostly-in, if not all-in.

Explain.

Chomsky called the Watson computer that won Jeopardy "a bigger bulldozer." He goes into more detail about his AI opinions here: http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/1366