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I've been wanting to learn C for quite a while now, and I went to my local Borders this evening with the intent of finally picking up a copy of K&R. When I arrived, I found myself thwarted -- there was not a copy on the shelf nor in the back.

So instead I grabbed pg's ANSI Common Lisp (I actually debated between that and Practical Common Lisp, but large pages of text with few line breaks make my brain hurt).

So what's the best way to work through this book? Is there anything I should keep in mind as I delve into functional programming for the first time? I'm not necessarily looking for specific tips on this book, just some pointers on learning lisp in general.

The first batch of tickets for DjangoCon 2008 sold out a few minutes ago. The website was inaccessible for a a good while, as geeks from around the world hammered into it, trying to get tickets of their own. I was hanging out on IRC when someone posted a link to the direct registration at Event Wax, so I was able to snag a pair of tickets for me and my new boss.

Is anyone else attending? Is there anyone that tried to get tickets and couldn't, due to the site being down? If there's enough YCers, should we hold a Hacker News meetup?

The next batch of tickets will be released tomorrow, August 1st, at 6:00pm UTC.

Curiosity, and for the pure enjoyment of it.

Wow. Color me inspired.

I want to nominate HN for Best Time Sink.

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Hey everyone,

Since starting at Galaxy IT in January (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=89615), I've been responsible for developing our advertising system. We had to roll our own because our application is built on Adobe Flex, and traditional advertising services (ie. Google AdSense) won't work. Besides that, we want our advertisements to be a bit more visually appealing than the standard boxes you see throughout the web today.

In order to get our system tested and off the ground, we need companies to advertise with us, and I figured News.YC would be a great place to ask. How interested would any of you be in helping us test our ad system? We'd be offering discounted rates, of course, and you'd get a pretty nice looking ad. This is kind of a "startups helping startups" situation: we need help getting our ad system tested, stable, and off the ground, and we want to help other startups by providing some cheap advertising.

Please note that this post is solely to gauge interest. It'll still be a while until we're ready to go.

More information: http://www.galaxyit.com/index.php?page=game

Well played, Google. Well played.

Fantastic operating system, horrible release name conventions.

Hello,

I'm a 20 year-old web developer with a wife and a baby on the way. I have an interview at a startup on Monday, Dec 17, and have a few questions for the startup community.

First, the position is for a PHP developer. While I started out in PHP and worked in it for several years, I haven't touched it since March when I switched to Python, and I've grown a bit rusty. Can you recommend any specific area that I should brush up on?

Secondly, what sort of questions should I expect to be thrown at me? I'm not really expecting too much about programming in general, as they're going to have me write some code, but what other kinds of questions might I get asked?

Finally, what questions should I throw back at them? I've read that interviews are just as much for the potential employee as the company, and there's the obvious asking about salary, benefits, programming environment, desktop setup... But is there anything I should make sure to ask?

A bit about the company: "Galaxy IT, Inc. is working on a web application that will take your current addiction of wasting time online, and your real-world need to get things done, and make it possible for you to do both at once."

Their website is http://www.galaxyit.com

I apologize for the short time-frame between this post and my interview date. They asked me to interview on Tuesday, and since then I've frantically been trying to get things prepared. I only just now thought about asking news.YC. If you can't tell, I'm quite nervous about the interview. What they're working on sounds really neat, and the pay is much more than I'm making now (and with the baby coming, it'll really help). I really want to make a good impression on them.

Thank you.