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MacVim's full screen mode has the neatest implementation I've seen of this. Play with the 'fuoptions' setting, which gives you control over the margin color and the maximization be…

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Because... what? Any skilled engineer is somehow automagically also blessed with entrepreneurial spirit?

And how is it that other third party software mysteriously has access to APIs that Flash allegedly doesn't? For example, MPlayer is able to offload work to the GPU.

The Hulu developers didn't pick Flash because it was "easy." They picked it because it allowed them to retain a high degree of control over their streaming video content -- control…

That's kind of a bogus question to begin with. Africa is not exactly culturally homogenous, and in fact Egypt (and a lot of nearby civilizations) would be more appropriately regard…

Currently, Apple only makes membrane keyboards. Even as membrane keyboards go, the best I can say about them (subjectively) is that they're not quite as awful as most of the compet…

I've seen some people use "myth" and "cult" to describe the theistic and worshipful aspects of religion, respectively. Unfortunately these words both have other, more common meanin…

In the most general case it uses boxing strategies, but it's also able to behave like C++ with certain compile-time optimizations turned on (at the cost of slowing down compilation…

No, the simplest case for Haskell would be type variables. For example, the map function doesn't need typeclasses at all: map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] For the record, in Go+generi…

These days, the Cocoa text system on Macs is so ridiculously feature-complete that you can do this in web browsers and chat programs as well, along with “smart quotes” and automati…

"But a pastebin like no other in the Internet." Isn't this pretty much a reimplementation of codepad.org? So that's not entirely accurate...

MacRuby relies on the Objective-C garbage collector, which is disabled on the iPhone.

It's a Haskell library: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec Here's a tutorial that uses it to parse a simplified Scheme: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_…

Rails folks are like that. Even though the rest of the Ruby community is much more reasonable, the weekly Rails debacle has driven a lot of people away from Ruby, including me. If …

That's nice. Now let's see an official client for set-top boxes, and maybe phones. It's very buggy, by the way. Crashes within 30 seconds every time I use it.

There are a lot of bogus links showing up on the front page with obviously falsified vote counts (numbers starting with the digits "1337"). I'd say, yeah, it's been seriously compr…

There are a lot of devices floating around these days (iPod Touch, eeepc, everything in between) that make it a lot more convenient to get distracted by the internet. However, for …

"Ada was created for the D.O.D according to their needs." Fixed that for you.

As if they're hard to write...? (define (foldr f end xs) (if (null? xs) end (f (car xs) (foldr f end (cdr xs))))) (define (foldl f start xs) (if (null? xs) start (foldl f (f start …

Typesafe generics have been in ML from the get-go (1970s) from what I remember. People like to talk about how type inference is useful, but it's really the generic polymorphism tha…

Some of them do. There are lots of redundant functions in CL, for reasons of backwards compatibility.

I didn't bring up Lisp machines. I'd like to see a Lisp OS of some kind, though.

> Could this be handled by macro programming on a lisp machine? Sure! Now all we need is a lisp machine that anyone can run on modern hardware. Any ideas?

iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. If you know OOP and C (that's regular C), you can pick up Objective-C in a matter of hours. If you don't know C already, you'll have to learn it anyway as p…