Owen Byrne

"I don't think there is, but a way to workaround it is to use tidy to clean up malformed html, then use simplexml or another parser library." - Owen Byrne

"I don't think there is, but a way to workaround it is to use tidy to clean up malformed html, then use simplexml or another parser library." - Owen Byrne

"Your comment reminds me of the early 19th century. There was this group called the "Luddites" that believed the same thing. It didn't turn out as they predicted." - Owen Byrne

"I think it's incredibly reckless to write him off at 13 years old. There's plenty of examples out there of people who committed horrendous crimes as teenagers, paid appropriately for their mistakes, and went on to productive lives." - Owen Byrne

"And from reading Philip Greenspun's blog, pilot's salaries are reflecting that reality. It's heading towards a minimum wage job." - Owen Byrne

"Just to be clear, Mr. Sullivan was 13 years old. In most of the world (apparently not Florida) that's an age where there's at least some questions about you being responsible for your own actions." - Owen Byrne

""In practice, nothing works." Nice quote, but it would have worked better preceded by "In theory, everything works." :-)" - Owen Byrne

"As I said, I don't really know enough to say, but are there stats to show that "most of their income is money won at a poker table?" And how much of that is due to being invited to tournaments?" - Owen Byrne

""Over the course of a year, a given pro will play thousands of poker hands, and so this shift in probabilities adds up to dramatic winnings." I don't actually know if that's true, but my impression is the exact opposite - that pro poker players have basically parlayed a bit of initial luck into a lucrative career that really has little to do with differential skill and more to do with self-promotion. Which, to my mind, is just as useful a perspective on entrepreneurship." - Owen Byrne