dschobel

The issue was never one of safety, the odds were never high that you would be on the receiving end of one of these SWAT attacks. The issue is the rights of citizens and their protection from unwarranted searches and unreasonable uses of force.

Australia has it's own issues on that front, look up Labor's recent proposal of data retention for electronic records or the infamous great firewall of Australia.

And as far as government's with regulatory zeal go, you've hit the motherload.

It's a lovely country (I've spent the last three years in Sydney and really and truly loved it) but don't kid yourself about the level of government intrusion in every. last. bloody. thing. It's maddening.

"I'm of the opinion that there is nothing wrong, or rather that the population is acting entirely naturally and appropriately given their adaptation to specific evolutionary conditions, which have changed drastically in the last 100 years. I doubt controlling marketing material will have a long-lasting effect, but anything is worth a shot. It is a very serious problem."

Which is it then, 'nothing wrong' or 'serious problem'?

You knock the gluten avoiders and follow that up by saying you became healthy by staying to the periphery of the grocery store where the fruits/veggies/meats/dairy are (and not the grains/gluten)...

I think you just contradicted yourself entirely.

Don't under-estimate the value of spotting CS legends (Norvig, Thrun, all of the old Bell Labs guys, etc) wandering around.

I was massively impressed when I visited.

so I'm curious-- has anyone ever made or received a job offer via these HN hiring threads?

+1. Another ex-professional dev (for +6 years) who left to do Hacker School here.

A lot of the students seem to have at least a few years of experience under their belt but it totally runs the gamut; you'll meet everything from people a few months into the hacking pursuit to people with decades of experience. And yes, it's a staggeringly amazing program. :)

"Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation."

and yet you bragged about flagging the submission...

Why do you see a positive incentive to female applicants as an implicit disincentive to male applicants?

How hard would it be for HN to filter posts like this? There are only so many permutations of "Why is this here? / What does this have to do with HN?" possible...

Let's take your theory and run with it, say that Derek was 100% lucky, that he's a hack, a fraud, just a product of some lucky circumstances, even so-- how on earth can you bemoan his simple message of encouragement?

The message is literally: reach out and try to make as many connections with other humans as you can and maybe even help them out if it's within your capacity. _That's_it_

Now have a good long think about how cynical of a person you'd have to be to complain about that message.

I wonder what the complexity of a plugin would be that watches you use vim and tells if you're doing an anti-pattern?

My only gripe with vim is that the discoverability of features is god awful because :help is so overwhelming.

wow, capital register appending is super useful. lots of good tips in this one.

thanks for posting this!