http://haiku-os.org/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3904972 http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-dawn-of-haik...

If you don't know what a word means, the first step is to check the dictionary! "tar baby: a difficult problem that is only aggravated by attempts to solve it".

That being said, I'm clearly in the wrong, sorry for having been a dick. I know the phrase tarbaby, I'd just never heard of a "tarbaby team" before and was thrown off.

If you do, however, you might get new insight into the term "tar baby" and why it has that definition.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4044219

The only difference in the URL is the unnecessary "www." prefix. Perhaps news.arc could be updated to treat both URLs the same?

http://spencertipping.com/zeroconsulting/

You email me with a problem you'd like me to solve. (Be sure to put "zero" in the subject so that my email filter catches it.) This could be anything: a debugging project, advice about something, a library you need, end-user code, etc. Anything you send me is confidential. I'll then follow up with you with any additional information I need and any initial impressions I have.

I will then try to implement a solution _and will never send you a bill_. I may or may not be able to implement something, depending on a variety of factors including my skill set. If I'm successful, I'll send you what I come up with. You may, at your option, pay me whatever you think my solution is worth. It's fine if this is nothing at all; that's useful information for me (I won't nag you about it, for instance).

The idea is that with a good online system, you can get rid of a lot of the crappy work, and make leaps in your business.

Perhaps Wikipedia can help clear your confusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould

"Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach’s music."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVODxskoHFQ

He was perhaps the greatest piano player of the 20th century and had a strong hacker/genius/Aspergers aspect. My favorite quote about him comes from Composer Dimitry Tolstoy: "Gould was an alien on this Earth. People simply cannot play the piano like that!"

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/articles/wqxr-features/2011/jan/06/va...

EDIT: panarky has now updated his post above to make it clear that the advice was to Zhou Tong.