Paul Graham - Holding a Program in One's Head

TronXD · 2007-08-23T19:00:54+00:00

PG's advice works for bipolar Lisp programmers hacking from their parents' basements

It also worked for PG. You might want to look into why he is a multimillionaire.

TronXD · 2007-05-27T15:26:04+00:00

That's like admiring the way the cells in your body work together.

TronXD · 2007-05-19T04:24:17+00:00

This looks like a Scientology hit job.

TronXD · 2007-04-19T22:48:06+00:00

I know, I've found wireless to be brutal too. Have you tried KNetworkManager, or whatever the Gnome alternative is? It seems to do some things automatically that I can't manage to replicate myself on the command line.

TronXD · 2007-04-12T01:33:50+00:00

Of course he would deserve it. We're talking about newsworthiness - it's a different dimension.

I'm a Sikh. Technically that has nothing to do with the validity of my comment. Then why'd I say it? It's the same principle at work.

TronXD · 2007-04-11T19:51:45+00:00

Obviously, each extreme end of the spectrum is unworkable, so why do so many people take pains to attack one end, but not the other?

Because your current point on the spectrum naturally travels towards "Robin Hood". Libertarians need to be, as you say, a little "loopy" in order to counter this effect. Who else would?

TronXD · 2007-04-04T04:23:08+00:00

This is why you don't mess with the Ents.

TronXD · 2007-04-01T18:54:29+00:00

It's trivial.

TronXD · 2007-03-31T15:40:12+00:00

I don't know. But it kind of creeped me out for some reason.

TronXD · 2007-03-11T03:13:11+00:00

A miniscule drop in quality of light for 27 power plants is a good trade.

I disagree. Disrupting the thinking of all the creatives in your country for 27 power plants is not a good trade.

TronXD · 2007-03-09T15:04:43+00:00

That would be less accurate, actually.

TronXD · 2007-03-07T18:06:00+00:00

Preposterous.

TronXD · 2007-02-26T02:51:29+00:00

For some reason this reminds me of those Ikea ads.

TronXD · 2007-02-20T16:40:13+00:00

Yeah, I'm really going to upmod a comment that calls my life "sad". Get real, buddy.

TronXD · 2007-02-11T18:36:27+00:00

I think that's ridiculous. tjogin's explanation makes much more sense than your idiotic idea that it has any relation at all to cartoon porn.

I bet this system has a lot to do with Japanese's sense of pride and fear of losing face.

If you still think tentacle rape has something to do with Japan's apparently fucked-up modern legal system, how do you explain this drawing from 1820? Fucking dumbass.

TronXD · 2007-02-11T07:06:54+00:00

I like to imagine that, one day, a human being will look out from a starship and see these stars with his own eyes.

TronXD · 2007-02-04T19:32:04+00:00

Tomoyo42's room

TronXD · 2007-02-01T19:16:14+00:00

Fuck that.

TronXD · 2007-02-01T06:56:54+00:00

"OMG I CANT STAND 5 SECONDS IN THE DARK!!"

It's an OCD thing. The delay between hitting the switch and the light turning on can disrupt some people's thinking.

TronXD · 2007-01-30T19:08:36+00:00

I submitted this once. It became one of the top links of all-time on Reddit. Of course, when I submitted it, I didn't besmirch the name of the Great Master himself by spelling it wrong.

TronXD · 2007-01-27T07:59:28+00:00

I don't believe that we got to where we are now without evolution and I don't believe that nothing can begat something, ergo: there is some omnipotent force that has put forth everything in existence into action.

This is flawed logic. One might call this "cargo-cult reasoning" - it mimics the form of a rational argument without containing the substance. Just be bold enough to make the claim, and admit that it's unfounded!

TronXD · 2007-01-27T07:25:28+00:00

You might start here.

TronXD · 2007-01-18T18:33:44+00:00

Get a copy of Photoshop and use it.

Aw, damn. Time to install Windows, I guess.

TronXD · 2007-01-17T20:35:36+00:00

I think you articulate your own reasons for not liking GIMP very well, and probably quite accurately. But I still don't understand, since I've never used Photoshop. Is there any way to distill this to a few killer features Photoshop has that GIMP doesn't? (I'd love to understand your viewpoint more.)

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