Everything is politics, religion is politics, javascript is politics. Anything where disagreement is possible incurs politics. This is why javascript discussions descend into religious debates and also why the premise and conclusions behind your entire essay is garbage.

Google gives me around 275,000 hits for 'Bill Gates is Satan' and 130,000 hits for 'Every time you masterbate, a kitten dies' but I can't vouch for the latter.

That's especially shocking given that you spelled masturbate wrong ;-)

Hey I wasn't using google to establish the truth-value of a proposition. I was just trying to show that there's wide-scale usage of 'radiation' to describe what an electromagnetic wave is.

Blame the moderators. The guidelines quite clearly state "If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title." However, YCombinator funded websites seem to be exempt.

> has somewhat unpredictable behavior on complex queries. Including counts.

By default, MyISAM compresses its primary key: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/05/13/to-pack-or-no...

So you get bad performance when the primary key is accessed in descending order: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=17847

If this corrupted, you get a different row count when you order by ascending or descending key. I've seen this in the wild. Unfortunately, this possibility has been repeatedly missed by developers: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28542 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28658 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=35605

MySQL is a nice bit bucket but I'll continue using Postgres for anything important.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ is quite nice: A rich set of features, easily extensible by custom directives, Python, and a hell lot of export formats (LaTeX/PDF, HTML, S5 slideshows, ...).

That's quite nice. Still not sure how I feel about wiki-style plain text markup formats though. I like them for simple and short docs, emails, and README's because it looks good in the editor, but it seems like the more you ask from that sort of format, the weirder things begin to look as you add features to support writing larger docs (and you end up with more syntax to memorize as well).

Thanks for the heads-up.

Skynet really exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28satellites%29

It's really very easy to make an anonymous account on this site. In fact, it is easier than going to bugmenot.com. And the way you did this, a malicious person could come along and delete this story.

Where do you see a delete button?

The point is that the original poster used a bugmenot account to post this and thus anyone using the same account can delete this post.

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/news.ycombinator.com

http://www.assembla.com/ offers Trac+Mercurial

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