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I don't think so. Most people don't want massive screens and don't know how to effectively use more than one anyway. Game developers are already having problems with the expense an…

Don't be so sure either of those are that important. You can get a laptop with comparable power to some of the more expensive desktops now for about the same price. Look at the Gat…

Because projectors require a few things that TVs do not. 1. A dark room 2. Nobody getting in between the projector and the surface it is displaying on 3. Extra space Don't get me w…

Please be smart and go with the ThinkPad (parcticularly a T61p). Right now they have a 25% off sale on them, not to mention you can get another 5% off if you have a Visa card, or a…

How many books do you need for a web framework? Django is pretty simple. There's already the official book in print. Not to mention one of the reasons Rails has so many books to be…

There are advantages to both approaches. Obviously as you suggested, only using indentation makes templating more difficult than have an 'end' delimiter. But for the 90% of code th…

Kind of an old post, things have changed for both Rails/Django since then. Though I'd like to comment on part of his article. He says that Django "is not as straightforward as Rail…

You can directly compare the speed of an application or a language. It is not subjective to say 'C is faster than Perl' or 'Perl is faster than Ruby'. That is true, in almost every…

The article is correct. In this interview ( http://twit.tv/floss11 ) Guido states that Python has been OO from the outset (1990). The thing you have to understand is Ruby and Pytho…

> It is increasingly dangerous to have a child past 30. The danger is most pronounced for older women. Do you mind explaining? It seems like I see more and more people having child…

I don't mean this to come out as negatively as it might sound, but JRuby being faster than Ruby 1.8 isn't saying much; MRI is pretty slow.

Yeah he definitely didn't start Reddit. He joined up with the Reddit team in December '05.

You are right about GEdit's power. it is pretty amazing. Also, Scribes isn't only a Python-editor, unlike what the title suggests (maybe I'm reading it wrong).

I don't see the point in this as a serious production language. As a project to just have fun, of course it is a cool idea. Lisp systems moved to generic functions for a reason - L…

What is the best alternative to an RDMS in most cases?

Hmm. I wonder if the continued need to explain the benefits of using Lisp is evidence for or against your statement?

It is the internet. You can build an interesting app even faster without touching Facebook's platform at all.

Is he serious about this being the coolest application to date? I mean really, a music video that will end up embedded on even more people's profile page and which will be interest…

I'm sure you know that the idea of using code in templates is controversial anyway. But I do like it, and Mako, imo, solves the issue with Python very well. % for row in rows: * He…

People continue to bring this post up. It is 2 years old, and Guido has said he will not be dropping functional constructs in Python. And the reason he wanted to remove them is not…

Hey gwen...what do you mean by this: "If JS is Lisp in disguise"?

It is unfortunate because it seems that those that succeed (especially in the computer industry) are the biggest jerks. The article does mention Gates, who was involved in some pre…

Just get a basic knowledge of each of them. CL is pretty special and has features you just won't find in most other languages (macros, interactive error-handling, generic functions…

You know I really do like apt, but it isn't perfect, and 'rough around the edges' isn't a bad description for it (I know he meant Ubuntu as a whole). I've had multiple times that b…