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To play devil's advocate, wouldn't the exact same thing be possible with the above alternatives and Armed Bear Common Lisp? You can write full-stack in Common Lisp, it's just that …

For debugging via print statements: public int echo(int x, String name) { System.out.println(name + ":\t" + x); return x; } (I also have versions with only x as an argument, and wi…

What's to stop me from a) Submitting multiple requests b) Using a bot to submit a LOT of requests to bug the heck out of someone c) Using a bot to submit a LOT of requests and DOS …

Nice/Useful. Internal Server Error the first time I tried to load comments. (And every time afterwards.) And it's kind of a bummer not to be able to log in and comment, upvote, etc…

Is it just me, or is everything the same except the colors?

...and I was feeling reasonably good about reaching #18 efficiently. But don't really have the time to burn to claw my way up another 15 places. I was hoping that the raffle would …

Thanks. Also: I take it that you have to be in the top 10 to get something? Or is it that the top 3 get something, and 10 others are randomly selected to win a book? The award syst…

It's too bad they don't also give away the dead-tree version. Some things are nice to actually have on your shelf...

public class Singleton { private static Singleton self = null; private Singleton() { //... } public static Singleton getInstance() { if(self == null) { self = new Singleton(); } re…

Sure I perform window operations, but they're not nearly the same thing as using Windows--which entails a lot more than using windows.

This came up elsewhere in the thread, see my response there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738851

As a big CLI fan, I mostly agree, especially with respect to launching programs. But as far as I see there's two big obstacles: 1) Many names are somewhat-obscure in the interest o…

Both with essays and coding, there've been times when I was very grateful that there was a fixed moment in the document's life that I could easily go back to. Sometimes I start mak…

Many icon sets (on Linux, at least) use a picture of a hard drive instead of a floppy [1]. Which, though more correct, still worries me. Anybody who recognizes the icon as a pictur…

There's a lot more to an operating system than how it manages non-fullscreen applications. "Windows" is obviously a related term, but I don't think it's generic --when I boot up Li…

Here it is in a book from 1995: http://books.google.com/books?id=JSnOPYKwwtQC&lpg=PA350&...

>Before I switched to OS X, I've never heard of any software being called "apps" on any other platform I used Maybe you didn't use the TI-83+, which has an "Apps" button on it, and…

I'd rather they fixed the results now and worried about the algorithm later (and you know they're working on the algorithm) than make us suffer unnecessarily until the algorithm wa…

The lifetime membership seems like a solid idea. It might also be worth charging, say, $1 to just use it once. Regardless, though, $18/hr (($200 - $20 theme) / 10 hours) is not bad…

He's not upset about the filename-comment per se , he's worried that it's an early warning--it indicates that Khan isn't very experienced with software development (which, in my op…

Sane link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness.h...

Here's the teaser from the link. I don't own the book and thus have nothing else to translate. Title: Search Engine Hacking with Google, Bing & Shodan Author: Enrique Rando Pages: …

Clickable: http://www.livebite.com/ ---------- To be honest, I kept expecting it do something else. Once I came to grips with what is was--a collection of popular news links in a v…

I'm not the author and obviously don't know for sure, but bit.ly can be a poor man's click tracker. Here are the stats for Rich Hickey's reading list on Amazon: https://bitly.com/h…