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From the site: "This is a common error of usage", 'the erroneous "modern" usage'

This tells me that the author completely misunderstands how language works. It assumes that there is a 'correct' way of using a word, and that a word is something more than an arbitrary collection of sounds.


Or in HN terms: A function that adds 2 to a given number, but is called 'subtractTwo()', compiles without problems. The name and the meaning don't have to match.

ps. epic post!!


You could save a lot of money, by just asking PG to write a declaration of independence...


That page of the comic in the article, reminds me of this video of Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ


I'd like to have that scooter. That one looks cool.



How do I get a gopher domain-name?


Domain names are not protocol-specific.


No gopher names? Oh, well... my GopherDaddy! empire probably wouldn't have been very successful anyway..


You have a standard domain name (as siblings note) and run a gopher server via that name. You'll have to have your own server (or virtual server) as I can't really imagine any hosting company allows gopher servers?!


My college costs $-957/month.

I hate to be so smug, but Scandinavian-socialism really does rule.


It must be quite an education-system to teach math like that. Elsewhere, one might be taught that a variable in calculating those costs would be the taxes paid to fund the college. Maybe you haven't paid much yet but I suspect that your parents may have and that you will (unless you emigrate soon after graduation.)


Possibly. But these are the cool questions that make Hacker News Hacker News and not Digg.


I think its the answers, more than the questions, are what makes Hacker News.


Is that headline a Jonathan Coulton reference?


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