Viewing profile — SpookyAction

"Look! We're passing in a function as an argument. Can your language do this?" Umm, yes it can.... #!/usr/bin/perl sub cook_time { ($hours, $min) = @_; $result = "$hours hours and …

The reason kids pick up languages and concepts early in life is a result of evolution. It has nothing to do with self-awareness and disregard with social norms. It's the complete o…

Is this Google's "moat" or is Google beset on all sides? It seems Google is making Microsoft's mistakes and making enemies in every market it can.

Im sure Bill Gates feels fine about saving Apple. The only reason Microsoft bailed out Apple was to fight the antitrust suit the U.S. government filed against it. By saving Apple, …

Patents on a product's "image" are just as ridiculous as software patents. Apple tried the same thing when they sued Microsoft over the Windows GUI and lost. 'The court ruled that,…

But at the same token, just saying "use this language" presents the same problem. What if Python doesn't work for the OP but picks it because he/she was "told" too. Maybe the OP is…

I agree with the generalities of the response but disagree with some of the particulars. Learning programming should be language agnostic. The "best" language is the one that works…

http:// equals port 80 and https:// equals port 443, the 2 ports web servers run on. Regardless of the subdomain, if you have http:// or https:// in a URL your getting a webserver.…

China requires ID to register a domain now, so there's also a complete lack of anonymity too. http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2010/02/buy-cn-domai...

Your worthy point embiggens us all.

I agree, you'd think they'd conduct usability tests BEFORE making the choice to switch to Unity. It seems that Ubuntu makes UI changes for the sake of being different, not better. …

That's one thing that always bugged me about Linux desktops. I've been using Linux as my desktop OS since Debian 2.0 and the naming convention tendencies of desktop environments ar…

I don't see how "Numbers" is any more intuitive than "Calc", not that Calc is really a good name for a spreadsheet application, but at least it makes sense. Spreadsheets do calcula…

Kevin Poulsen posted an article that was plugging his new book, which I thought was pretty tacky. So I posted a comment critical of the article also mentioning that I thought he la…

Also, how do you search for anything with punctuation? I frequently use Perl, which makes use of punctuation for functions, and am constantly frustrated on how you can't search Goo…