You seem like a nice human being, truly wishing death upon someone because they find your precious sob story hokey is the hallmark of someone who is empathic and mature.
EDIT: Oh wait, I see now! It was not your intention to actually emulate the hilariously 2D caricatures in the story and be sympathetic and nice to all comers, no that something you reserve for the safe idealized realm of fiction where there is no chance for disappointment by the messy and contradictory things we call humans. I've got your ticket man and you seem to be in good company with the majority of HN, I mean who would have guessed that the money hungry posers on this site would be into empty sentimentality?
I'm unmoved by this sentimental drivel, and I think your urging to "please pause for a moment and ask yourself why" is the most pompous thing I have read on HN.
What logic? What are you talking about? The US is above Israel on every sub-index. Besides it is obvious that it is relative to population because in absolute terms the US would far outstrip any competitors.
There is an index that tries to measure innovation called the Global Innovation Index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index_%28INSE...), interestingly Israel comes in at 14th, you'd think they would be number one if this article is to be believed.
> no matter how much more educated you are then this simple peasant, she knows she can humiliate you
Education doesn't make you superior to anyone, and calling an honest worker a "peasant" shows that you are not especially enlightened.
> just pause and remember what happend [sic] there in the 1930's
You as a Turk should pause and remember what happened 1915-1917 in Turkey, and maybe this time you will have the balls to admit you committed genocide, before that you might as well give up on criticising anyone else's history.
I've also been interested in DSLs and found some very cool code samples implementing an EDSL (embedded DSL) for describing shapes. I have looked at it countless of times for ideas when I'm writing my own. Although the code is in Haskell I think you can learn a thing or two from it.
With tools like this I'll probably remain unemployable indefinitely as anyone with a subscription will find my quaint short stories. Written at a time of youthful tribulation they read like PKD with a sadistic streak.
Or I could just get a new email, but then I'd have no audience and possibly miss out on some interesting conversation.
'So, the main character gags on a dildo laced with LSD?'
'Yes, sir, it's suppose to symbolize the rape and indoctrination of the indigenous people of the amazon'
EDIT: Oh wait, I see now! It was not your intention to actually emulate the hilariously 2D caricatures in the story and be sympathetic and nice to all comers, no that something you reserve for the safe idealized realm of fiction where there is no chance for disappointment by the messy and contradictory things we call humans. I've got your ticket man and you seem to be in good company with the majority of HN, I mean who would have guessed that the money hungry posers on this site would be into empty sentimentality?