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I've heard 'piquant' (from French) being used for spicy in the red pepper sense. It sounds pretentious but maybe it'll be more mainstream some day.

I think he means the APIs that allow you to simulate mouseclicks and keyboard input on arbitrary windows and controls

You might be interested in GNU Unifont: http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

I was very surprised he said Basic. Of course, he presume he doesn't do much hard core software engineering anymore, but I assumed that family was pretty much a thing of the past (…

Forgive my ignorance, but what is wrong with static class members?

I recently followed a Computer Networking course, and the teachers actually went though pains to ensure those with older editions could follow the assigned exercises. From what I c…

Or select the picture and copy it to the desktop.

try: f = float(someText) catch ValueError: # I just parsed you, this is crazy, # here's an exception, throw it maybe? Formatted That For You

It's not invisible when you're actually looking for an invisible file.

That seems like a bad idea. TeX doesn't allow separation between markup and presentation very well. Something like DocBook[1] with a presentation engine like XSLT might be better, …

This might be obvious, but PDF isn't usually reflowable (and if it is, it's not very easy to do so), which makes for a painful reading experience on a smallish widescreen monitor, …

Very interesting, and not too hard to follow with little knowledge of statistics. I might even start taking an interest in the contest, despite the Netherlands coming up with terri…

Doesn't work very well when zooming.

I hadn't thought of that. You also made me realize that existing modules written in PHP can be reused this way.

Let me make sure I understand... Is this meant to be run on a web hosting service that supports PHP in the 'traditional' way or do you need permission to run this as a daemon? If i…

Same here with Chromium 18

I assume that also doesn't count package manager or App Store installs. Still, OSX seems to be quite a big market there.

While it does require some terminal skills, as far as playing or streaming any media file and skipping left and right a bit (the largest part of my contact with a media player) or …

What do you mean by that, exactly? Just out of curiosity.