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Low Fat Diet and Sunscreen: a Recipe for Disaster (mit.edu)
46 points by bayareaguy 2 months ago | link
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Poll: Unknown or expired link on YC
40 points by bayareaguy 8 months ago | link
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I'm seeing this a lot more often these days, even when just pressing "More" at the bottom of the main page without being logged in.

It makes me think the current continuation-based session scheme isn't enough to guarantee a good experience.

What do you folks think?

"A kind reminder to the community: please (re)read the HN guidelines"
27 points by bayareaguy 6 months ago | link | top
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The guidelines are short enough that they could go on the actual http://news.ycombinator.com/submit page or at the very least there should be a link to http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html there.
"Steve Jobs on managing through the economic downturn"
20 points by bayareaguy 24 days ago | link | top
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I hate it when a perfectly reasonable article is split into 15 separate sections you need to click through. Here's a copy you can read quickly - http://jottit.com/myvqn
"Code's Worst Enemy"
20 points by bayareaguy about 1 year ago | link | top
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So "JavaScript", which once had nothing at all to do with Java proper, may now be the best language to target the JVM. Oh the irony...
"Why Is America So Religious?"
17 points by bayareaguy 3 months ago | link | parent | top
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How about when they cause problems?

Too many people confuse faith with the idea of absolute belief. It's one thing to be faithful to a set of teachings and it's another to believe a particular set of statements to be literally true.

I'm no great fan of religion because most require the suspension of inquiry into their core principles when really that's exactly what they should encourage.

"Most Programming Interviews are a Waste of Time"
16 points by bayareaguy 3 months ago | link | top
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I enjoyed the Dr. Seuss image more then the article.
"Zen is boring"
16 points by bayareaguy 11 months ago | link | parent | top
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bayareaguy read jkush's comment, and was at that moment Enlightened.
"Take the Arc Challenge"
16 points by bayareaguy 11 months ago | link | top
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Arc seems to embody the idea that "Language design is library design, and vice-versa", but how can we tell where the boundry is?

When I look at something like

  (defop said req
    (aform [w/link (pr "you said: " (arg _ "foo"))
           (pr "click here")]
      (input "foo") 
      (submit)))
what I see is more or less ordinary lisp that uses a library to solve an issue with applications that rely on http. I'm sure plenty of us could do the equivalent with the appropriate Python/Perl/Php/Ruby library, but then the obvious criticism would be that you're not really comparing lanugages. You would be comparing libraries.

Plenty of examples over here: http://arclanguage.com/item?id=722

Is it really the case that when you boil it down, Arc (language+libraries) is about making small web programs? If not, why this challenge and if so I suspect it won't live up to the 100-year idea.

"Number Spiral - When You Chart a Number System, Patterns Emerge"
15 points by bayareaguy 26 days ago | link | top
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12:45, restate my assumptions...
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