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I think that Vista should be made immune to piracy hacks. The reason? It would encourage more people to try alternatives.

I got my data from here: http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php Of course, the scientific method means this tests should be reproducible by everyone, and YMMV, but I wasn'…

Opera has been doing that for ages. AFAIK Opera 9.5 Beta is still faster than these two browsers.

Separating interfaces from implementations is ALWAYS good design. If I understand correctly, a pure virtual interface avoids inline functions. And there can be a lot of one-liner i…

Hype.

Hehehe, I do use and administer a Subversion server, but to me the webdav choice was ugly. Standalone svn:// server for the win.

He's just trying to impress the lady in black. (Or some other lady nearby.)

AFAIK the $20 firmware upgrade exists because tax laws, not because Apple likes it that way. Proof: it was different before, and Apple got in legal trouble.

I think that compilers should be specially easy to write in Lisp over any other language. However in the time that most people were writing compilers no common or popular computer …

Almost all 'design patterns' are just instances of yet another pattern: The Human Compiler. Make your language do something it can't naturally do, by having to transform abstractio…

Funny, I started doing a lisp interpreter a while back and I have only got to the part where it makes a damn fine calculator. I believe my version is much handier than having to us…