http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/Immortal_Daemon/Spinn... makes both rotations clear, if it's driving you nuts.

ok, now I see. if I close my right eye and turn my head, the animation appears to reverse itself.

Same here, although I think there is a subtle distinction between "out of bed" and "awake".

A bunch of HN folks have formed a SICP study group, if you choose this route: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428248

One of my friends is workingthrough SICP. (He left his job becauee he felt burnt out and wanted to do something different before he went back into a 9 to 5 job). He is posting the answers on his blog (http://lawfulsamurai.blogspot.com/search/label/SICP). This might be helpful to you

Wow, he started in December and he's on chapter 4 already!

I would be happy to finish SICP in one year.

[edit: Now I am reading his blog more closely and he only started posting his answers in December. He started reading SICP in July]

"edit: Now I am reading his blog more closely and he only started posting his answers in December. He started reading SICP in July"

well, he didn't do too much for the first 3 or so months. so he really got down to work around September iirc.

I'm in as well, and my copy is being shipped too :) Ordered it a few days ago.

Minor bugfix: your 'terms of service' link in the footer goes to /about/privacy instead of (I assume) /about/tos.

This will be fixed in production later today. Thanks!

Insert "just not evenly distributed" here.

There is also http://code.google.com/p/macvim/, although it has to be built from source.

This is my favorite version of vim on OS X. It uses Cocoa and is fast. There's a pre-built .app in the tarball on that site and a script to launch macvim from the command line.

Yes, but we can't tell which comment threads you've looked at.

The problem is, there might be new comments even if you visited the thread.

But there's a remedy for it and it's simple: the link includes the number of comments in that discussion, so that your browser can change the color if the number of comments has changed since your last visit.

Edit: e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=268389&c=21

This is neat. I've been using this technique ever since stumbling across it in "Building Communities with Software" by Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswi...). Money quote:

Q. Why don't you have some kind of system so I can see what posts I've already read?

A. We have the best system that can be implemented in a distributed, scalable fashion: we let everyone's browser keep track of it. Web browsers will change the color of the links you've already visited from blue to purple. So all we have to do is subtly change the URL for each topic to include the number of replies available; that way when there are additional replies the post will appear in the "unread" color again.

Anything more elaborate than this would be harder to build and would needlessly complicate the UI.

Very clever. I may do that. But it would take more than 5 seconds, because I have to think about the best way to distinguish between visited and unvisited links.

Why not just use the same slight-fading that's used for submission titles?

(Also: simply changing the link URL would mean users could make a change in their local stylesheets, even if there's no styling change at News.YC.)

That is so very simple and genious. PG, better implement this pronto, shouldn't take more than five lispy, lispy seconds.

Speaking of expendability at the end of one's life, I just finished Scalzi's _Old Man's War_. Don't settle somewhere, join the army!

36; half a BA in Jazz Performance (dropped out) + half a BA in Psychology (tried to rescue the first BA, couldn't)