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Oooh, look out! A bunch of companies with no established user bases are going to boycott you!

This will get the grannies to upgrade their computer machines for sure.

I want a solution to a^3 + b^3 = c^3 where a,b,c are positive integers.

Oh man, your wife is going to be pissed when she finds out you disintegrated her engagement ring for your little computer machine.

Thank you for trivializing a war my grandfather fought in and died. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Just kidding. I'm still trying to figure out who Japan would be..

Pirated games come largely from China.

Most companies do endorse fluid working hours.

It's just a balancing act between wanting everyone to be accessible when you need then and wanting employees to have flexibility in their schedules.

The end of the article was amazing. Nothing better than bitching about your work being stolen and then finding out that your communications director endorses the process by tipping off Gawker. Oh the irony..

I mean, technically it has meaning even without a restricted time frame. Some nonzero percentage of all businesses ever started have never failed.

That being said, it's nothing like 20% so clearly there is an implicit time frame.

Did Slashdot actually beat HN to a story for once?

My head just exploded.

I'm sorry, how is that the story of Mac vs. PC?

Let's play a game. It's called "don't link to sites which have popup balloons when you hover over links". Here's how you play..

While Python is always a safe choice, another strategy would be to investigate what the new programmer is trying to accomplish. Most people aren't like "I'm going to learn a programming language as an academic exercise!", they want to actually do something.

If they are interested in writing web apps you might suggest Flash. If they are interested in writing a 2D video game you might suggest Python. If they are interested in performing numerical analysis of math functions you might suggest getting a girlfriend.