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Dialing 911 in the EU can redirect you to 112, though I don't know how that redirection works. It's worth knowing the local emergency numbers in any case

Yes, and Dennis Ritchie who died seven days later

That's not true in the sense that the cancer doesn't have objectives per se, therefore it doesn't have anything to lose in the sense that matters.

It reminds me of the extreme advertising meme.

Justin Rye's site is now at http://jbr.me.uk/ (and the espe-ranto at http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/ )

I am a true prophet. https://twitter.com/TyphonBaalAmmon/status/15911802751865528...

I think Pinboard is more likely to buy Twitter. And honestly this might not be the worst thing that could happen to it. Not sure if Maciej will be keen however.

Organizations (mostly) don't self-perpetuate through sexual reproduction. It's perfectly possible for the VHEMT to expand if they manage to convince enough people.

I thought it would have been obvious to anyone that this is satire, but then again I know that it was explicitly presented as such the first time I read this text so I'm probably b…

This is one of those things that is both very true, and very much easier to say than do.

It used to be the most common lie was "I have read the EULA". Nowadays the most common lie is "we care about your privacy" or possibly "we get it, you hate ads".

It's never more about money than when "It's not about the money anymore". I think that with a stock whose worth at this point is the result of pure dutch-tulip-like speculation, th…

The one valid definition of success for a programming language is that it looks pretty and thus the most successful programming language is Piet ( http://www.dangermouse.net/esoter…

This is a rather bad article because it completely misses the real complexity of a spell checker. A spell checker is not simply a list of words, it's a way to check mistakes accord…

The big difference between the American attitude and the Chinese attitude towards ecology is this : The Americans loudly refuse to do anything, loudly deny that there's a problem, …

This article quotes Perlis' famous saying that "a programming language is low-level when it calls attention to the irrelevant", and I am reminded of another Perlis aphorism : « Ada…

There's plenty of small online stores selling all kinds of stuff. Recently I had ordered smoked paprika from Amazon UK because I can't find any where I live (France). I got regular…

No, it's just a simple heuristic to get started.

Here's an idea : do the 0.1 version by crawling and indexing the web in a perfectly standard way, apply the usual, run-of-the-mill search algorithms, then diff it against the Bing/…

No, no it's still there at https://www.duolingo.com/courses

There's a great post at Slate Star Codex : http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/16/things-that-sometimes-h... It contains a lot of advice on how to choose a therapist and how to behav…

Han unification was really a pretty stupid idea.