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Because the chemical in this case is something we have all the necessary things to produce. I can't make energy (ie. food) from no input, but with some energy expenditure, my body …

Jurors are selected based on all sorts of things. You'll find that jurors with higher education are often eliminated (prosecutors hate educated jurors, they tend to be harder to co…

I disagree with the author when he says that "RPG, in the context of video games basically means quest based game with turn based combat." IMO, this is extremely narrow-minded, and…

The list of people who didn't already know this is very, very short.

It was a joke, lighten up. For what it's worth, I'm a .NET developer and think it's awesome.

Well…I think Roslyn will be good, but I think it's reaching to say it must be because the MS team themselves will use it. After all, these are the same people who invented (and use…

I agree with all of your points, though the only one I can address is the LINQ for source code quip and amend it somewhat to an already possible "LINQ for codebases." It should, in…

I loved this book. If the movie is half as good, I'll love it too.

Linking is done on the target box, and not on the distcc builders, so link-time optimization should be unaffected.

I suspect that they wouldn't be that stupid. That would alienate sizable parts of the Skype userbase. Microsoft is stupid, but not that stupid. This seems like pure paranoia to me.…

I think I should've been more specific—I know that the two interact, but I wasn't sure if they /react/. That is, would collision between photons and antimatter produce the same sor…

Possibly with something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling , where you're not actually striking it with matter, but only with photons, though I don't know if photons r…

I invariably find myself doing this in C projects because not doing it is a serious violation of DRY--writing possibly hundreds of lines of free (foo->bar); free (foo->baz); free (…

Actually, it covers all implementors (the community promise does, that is).

Known issue, they use some nasty combination of IFRAME and JavaScript for the site that breaks in a lot of browsers.

This matches my experience almost exactly. I wasn't sure that I needed a smartphone, so I got a low-end Android handset on Verizon (Droid Eris), and it's been an absolute piece of …

You had me until dynamic typing. ;) And I really hope you mean Lisp-y macros, and not CPP macros.

The issue is not with the open-source portion, it's with relicensing. The implication is that parts of the code that are in Android's Java implementation were copied outright and t…

Indeed, though as the OP points out just below, if you have fixed frequencies, you don't have to sort. That said, you generally have fixed frequencies with a predetermined set of c…

I found the two-queue technique to be much more intuitive than the binary heap technique, which definitely resulted in it being more fun to code. As an aside, the two-queue techniq…

Great summary post, but I want to add one thing—Mono just got a new garbage collector with the 2.8 release called SGen. SGen is a generational garbage collector with nurseries, a c…

As a .NET/PHP on Linux developer, I 100% agree. I just wanted to provide a counterexample. ;)

I don't know of any .NET/Java programmers who say they can't live without IntelliSense. I certainly know I can, and do, frequently. Why, just this morning, I wrote some Java in Ema…