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The copilot agent stuff in IntelliJ works relatively well in my experience, they managed to implement a quite cursor-like “accept/reject” UI in a plugin, you know, forking IDEA. Th…

Put your cilantro in a ziplock bag, roll it up to exclude the air before zipping up and keep it in the fridge. Will keep for quite a lot longer.

The Cree bulbs - at least the ones in Home Depot in Canada - actually do have a warning about using in enclosed fixtures. It says (to my recollection) "Do not use in enclosed fixtu…

I imagine the documentation is completely out of date. Anyway, if you don't want to look at it, that's your loss - while I don't think CAL has much of a future a lot of work was in…

Unfortunately it looks like you would have to build from source. The best place for that would be Rich Webster's fork - https://github.com/rdwebster/Open-Quark - which is the versi…

It's interesting to compare this to CAL - an earlier Haskell-like language on the JVM that was a project of some of my former colleagues at Crystal Decisions/Business Objects back …

Yeah, me too... TI-51 III (aka TI-55 in US) in the late 70s - belonging to my father, who had it for his job but never got to use it much because I was always playing with it. He l…

Rang so true for me too. Growing up in London, the valley seemed like the centre of the universe and somewhere I'd eventually want to move to, but when I first visited in 1993 for …

See also Apple "Advanced Technology Group", pre-1997. One of Jobs' first acts on his return was to kill it. I remember all those cool demos we used to get at WWDC of things that ne…

Daimler's "Car2go" service (available here in Vancouver and some other cities) allows you to leave the car anywhere in their core service area. http://car2govancouver.com/

Happy to be of service with my naive wonderings :) Anyway, thanks, I'm not much of a PLT guy but I can begin to see why this could not work.

I guess the benefit of lazy by default is that (given Haskell is an experiment in purity) it sets the expectation that things will be side-effect free by default. Were that not a d…

If you are coding for the browser, neither of the options you suggest are available to you. Now what? Answer: you do it with callbacks, because they are literally the only mechanis…

If you go and look for such a thing as a server-side 2D rendering API that will work on a headless linux server and support a nice visualization API comparable to D3 and not pay so…

This is similar to how we do our email delivery of dashboards at Indicee ( http://www.indicee.com ) We don't use D3 for our visualizations (I'd love to, but our users can use the d…

There might be something to this. Despite Jobs' statements about the usefulness (or otherwise) of upright touch screens, accessory manufacturers have been catering to people who wa…

In this vein, it's also worth looking at Microsoft's "Reactive Extensions" (which have a JS implementation, too.) It's a similarly monadic approach to asynchrony, but deals in "obs…

Be careful what you wish for. I've been using GWT solidly for the past two years (not my choice for the project, but sometimes you just have to play the hand you are dealt) - and I…

The numbers you quote sound like large sums of money but MSF's total budget is $400M and 80% of it comes from private individuals. (source: Wikipedia.) So it seems like a stretch t…

While the example of Justin Bieber makes it seem to make sense to push the cost of following to the followed rather than the follower, I am not at all sure this makes sense in the …

Do you mean import used? They are on sale here: http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/canada/

SAP has 1200 employees in Vancouver, at the former Crystal/Business Objects site on Mainland St.

I actually had a NewBrain, think it's still around in my parents' attic somewhere. I did quite a bit of real paying work on BBC Micros back in the day, and think they were great - …

These are my choice for coding too, very good balance of sound isolation and quality. Very solidly made too. Hard to find in Hi-fi stores but music equipment places carry them (pop…

Title is incorrect, should be: "A story about me". This seems kind of grouchy I know, but I am getting a bit tired of these wildly overblown titles attached to very thin blog posts…