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I wouldn't trust Joel Spolsky's code expertise -- just look at Excel internals! Nevertheless, Stack Overflow is super cool. But that tells nothing about its architectural quality.

Wow the article map measures contamination in "cm"? I never knew contamination is measured in centimeters, what a discovery!

You cannot reverse bitcoin transaction. It either happened or not, determined by the broadcasted block chain.

Billionaire title doesn't make scientific claims any more true. Tom Cruise may be billionaire too, but claims to believe in some crap, for whatever reasons.

Just to make my point clear, I'm not against J. Simons. I'm against using billionaire titles for defending scientific theories.

The article seems to be published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, which is considered seriously by physicists [0]. That title would be a valid response to schlagetown, of course.

[0] http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?area=3100&category=...

It's funny to see how many Hacker News writers use Mac, the most closed hardware+OS, most anti-hackish.

How about renaming HN to stand for Hipster News?

Java IDE in browser. That's the only thing I need from ChromeOS.

"We can kill 100 percent of the bacteria"

Didn't read further. There's no such thing as "100%" in medicine (even pure alcohol does not). They're not scientists.

That article is ancient, and has drawbacks discussed in other places. Everyone interested has already seen it (its googleable by just "javascript inheritance").

And better music. And better paintings.

Many great people did drugs. But don't mess correlation with causation please. Maybe great people are just more predisposed to drugs, while drugs actually harmed them.