♫♪♫ to my ears. I ♥ unicode! To ∞ and beyond, ☺

Thanks, grandma.

So. A note to all the "unicode makes this unusable" people -

Apparently, while you were complaining, someone else was solving.

Funny that you mentioned Slashdot as a paragon of intelligent community. I recently stopped going to /. all together because the signal-to-noise ratio got too low. You can't talk about anything there without getting past a bunch of 'first post' and GNAA comments, and once you find a decent thread of discussion, it is inevitably hijacked by some amateur Grammar Nazi pointing out the difference between its and it's (since the person who misused it obviously did it on purpose... definitely couldn't be a typo).

You could say "just browse at 4 and higher," but then you miss a lot of good stuff that was downmodded for political reasons, or was too far down the page to ever get upmodded to begin with. This gives more weight to early comments than later ones, and hence everything must be hastily done, and hence there will be a typo which will bring out the Grammar Nazis, etc.

Slashdot has a lot of problems. The only reason it hasn't become a Digg or Reddit is because human moderators actually screen the stuff that gets posted, rather than rely on the (lack of) wisdom of the crowds. Content-wise, Digg and Reddit tread a lot of the same territory as Fark nowdays, only on Fark the main point is writing a funny headline or photoshopping a funny image, not the story itself.

I think YC News works because it is small, and I think it stays small because it is focused. So thank you all for keeping it focused.

That it would look foreign to the maximum number of people.

I'm not married yet. Engaged though.

I wonder if this study controlled for children. From what I've seen, having kids affects people's lives a lot more than getting married.

Well, not quite. I gave Patrick an early version of the code, a couple weeks before Arc was released, and he immediately sent me this fix. I just didn't get around to incorporating it till now.

There's a difference between things I don't care about, and things I'm actively against. I don't care about character sets and css, so those things will no doubt gradually get better.

Classic static typing, however, I think is actually a bad idea in a general-purpose language. It makes languages weaker. So it's never likely to happen in Arc itself. However, one of the explicit goals of Arc is to be a good language for writing other languages on top of, and I can imagine plenty of languages for specific types of problems (e.g. circuit design) in which static typing would be a good idea.

There are a lot of possible uses for forms. This may not overlap all that much with Wufoo. But insofar as it does, I'm not too worried. I know this may sound unlikely, but the Wufoos are such animals that, on their territory, no one could compete with them, not even Google. They're up there with Sam Altman for people I'd never want to have as competitors.

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The real test is whether you can discover new questions.

Darn.

At least you were kind enough to let us know.

pg didn't say that. people just made it up.