slightly offtopic: The user id - coconuts2314 - looks like a bot. Look at all the submissions and only one lame comment. Shouldn't the HN spam algorithms detect this?
Does Postgres have an equivalent Connect By feature? Last I checked it didn't. If you don't need to scale your hierarchical data much, its pretty handy. I'd prefer to go to Postgres too.
I subscribe to the Economist and listen to it during my commute. Many of their articles are verbose, but it's still better, IMO, than many alternatives.
People who love C love it, in part, because they are often solving interesting problems with it. Many problems that require C are interesting: embedded software, automated robots, new databases etc. Most problems that C is not good at - Web development - are not that interesting to many people that love C.
"Monsanto won its case against Parr, but the company, which won't comment on specific cases, has stopped its legal action <edit>for PR reasons</edit>against the Runyons."
It's my understanding Monsanto isn't a company that relies on free markets. They use lawyers heavily. If their seeds blow from a customer's farm to a non customer's farm and the non customer doesn't actively try to remove the Monsanto seeds, they sue. They are like the seed mafia.
You have to take everything a hedge fund trader says with a grain of salt. These guys are making bets both upwards and downwards on the same day.
For all I know they've got a program that detects when this article hits the web and that triggers a trade, and then an hour later their program triggers another trade.
It's useful to me. The amount of words doesn't equal the quality of the content.
When my dad asks if he thinks he should buy some Facebook stock, I can tell him the IPO was more about allowing insiders to sell their stock than raise capital. Red flag
"Mr. Kaplan, the entrepreneur, argues that by styling itself as an idiosyncratic company that has broken the mold in initial offerings, Google is potentially courting disaster."
Maybe in hindsight he meant the opposite of disaster.
Go ahead HN Lisp lovers, kill my karma!