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If you want to learn a functional language, Lisp is a good choice. It has been around a long, time, so it is stable and well supported, and it is also the basis for many other lang…

Great quote: "Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup invented the C++ programming language in 1978, taking the C language invented by the late Dennis Ritchie and adding new fe…

One thing to bear in mind is that there are theoretical Limits to windmill efficiency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz's_law In short, we can't extract more than about half of th…

http://pietrushnic.github.io/blog/2014/08/18/linux-rpi-and-u... Describes how to setup usbip on the Raspberry Pi.

If you don't need Windows or the mobility, a Raspberry PI 2 may be an alternative. They are about $35 plus tax and the model 2 is as capable as a five year old Laptop.

Thanks for the catch.

It's a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU. ARM7, it's official: http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

I think this might be the relevant change (contained in bill S-1 which was substituted in the Regulatory Reform Committee): "2 (i) Sell any new motor vehicle directly to a retail c…

The first use I know of that gained wide recognition was in Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" from 1978. "1.1 Getting Started The only way to learn a new program…

It can definitely be greater, because a table tennis ball with backspin follows an upward trajectory.

First and foremost, congratulations on a wonderful piece of art. The realities of accounting should not distract you from the fact that the project was a success and enriched peopl…

And not mine either :-)

Also because spelling is apparently not one of MIT's 50 achievments...

And Lisp :-)

It would have been interesting to see the power consumption compared. The Raspberry PI model A can be operated below 0.5A, in some cases 0.25A, which makes it attractive for mobile…

Walk from Whitechapel to Portobello Road via Harrods Learn 10 Chinese or Japanese characters Learn 10 phrases in Hindi, Indonesian, Russian and Spanish Visit a refugee camp Go to B…