I found "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith to be an excellent book. He explains things very well. You can tell he has done extensive analyses to back up his conclusions. Free on Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300). I actually listened to the recording on librivox.org (read by Stephen Escalera):

http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-1-by-adam-smi... http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-2-and-3/ http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-4-by-adam-smi... http://librivox.org/the-wealth-of-nations-book-5-by-adam-smi...

While the Wealth of Nations was a great book for its time, I suspect that the time it takes to read it would be better spent reading four shorter economics books.

I do recommend P. J. O'Rourke's book On The Wealth Of Nations, though, which summarises and discusses the whole thing in a hundred pages.

Thanks for the info. I added my npm module (https://github.com/srveit/mechanize-js) to Travis

The War on Poverty is the name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty

Why?

Read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeo ... Twitter was a side project that ended up taking over.

Here is an article and HN discussion thread that was posted two months ago that describes how one man retained his rights upon re-entering the US:

http://nomadlaw.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-an...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681721

That reminds me of my old boss expecting email to be the same as an answered phone call. There was a problem in our system that he wanted me and a co-worker to solve by working late and he sent us a both an email. The was close to the end of the day. I didn't read the email until the next morning. He yelled at me for not putting in the extra effort and leaving it to my co-worker. The really funny part was that his office was only 20 steps away from my desk and he could have dialed a four digit number to reach my desk phone. And this was back in 1994.

There is a HR joke about mail. He send a mail request not relevant and the first one to answer is fired because it means this guy is not realy busy.

Every part of your description makes it sound like an awful place to work. I don't get why people who happen to have the job of "manager" assume they have the right to yell at people. It's not remotely professional and certainly doesn't have the intended effect.

It looks like at least one company is trying this: https://www.banksimple.net/about/

That doesn't say anything about their tech, and they're not open for business (yet). It will be interesting to see how they fare.

I don't use a case for my 3GS. I always keep it in my pocket (not the one with my keys). However, I bought my wife a rubber case for hers, since she keeps it in her purse with her keys, lipstick, pens, pencils, etc.

I think the "Little yellow guy" is the Street View icon.

That would be cool. It would rock to have geosay stuff on the street view map

It uses Google's open source V8 JavaScript engine. (http://code.google.com/p/v8/) It doesn't support multiple cores AFAIK. To use multiple cores, the server would need to spawn subprocesses or run multiple servers behind nginx.