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Yeah, I wish Lua hadn't taken undefined and nil to be the same thing given the way tables work in it. Most of the time it doesn't matter, thankfully. Sometimes you bump into it. A …

I agree with this, mostly. I feel that Trump's campaign has already damaged the country in a very profound way that will take years for us to recover from as a people. But, I don't…

Wow, I never thought they'd open source Chez. This is really cool.

I'm an OMSCS student. Udacity is fine. It serves its purpose. Sometimes it looks like the poor instructors are getting a double whammy of Georgia heat and hot spotlights, but the l…

Also an OMSCS student. Funny. On my iPad, it's less than straightforward to use Udacity on the website, and I've never been able to get the mobile app for the GT login. I have my I…

The people who Fox News caters to the most are suburbanites. Most people way out here are lukewarm on Fox News. They're just... different. They agree with some things that I imagin…

Hey! I really love Lua. I'd recommend reading Programming in Lua (whatever the latest edition is) and Lua Programming Gems. Unfortunately, Lua is one of those languages that isn't …

Yeah, I agree. I use emacs avidly. I still think for editing raw text it's a fairly nice experience. I like a lot of the features in emacs but I rarely need some of the more advanc…

I don't think he would build a computer. 10k years ago was before writing. I imagine if anyone were transported that far back they'd want to focus on the stuff that has a huge impa…

I'm from the South and hear this all the time. I have no idea how many people are actually descended from the Cherokee (they were one of the larger groups in the South). I have a d…

Colossus is one of those games that I can play just to ride around on a horse and explore to veg out for a couple of hours. It's a weird game.

This is interesting. Is there anyone who has worked in companies like this willing to talk about how it ends up working out? I've never been in sales but I've never heard of compan…

As much as I love dynamic languages, I have to disagree friend. :( Static typing confers more benefits than just enforcing a self-documenting type check on your code. It adds a lev…

For me, at least, it's not so much a "raw LOC output" thing as it is a comfort thing. When I go back to IDEs or text editors that aren't Emacs, even though I can be productive ther…

When I'm out with friends and we order a larger bottle of beer (like chimay) or get a pitcher the person who grabs the pitcher usually pours for others before themselves. It's pret…

Yeah, that part of the article I feel is off. I've never been on a retreat but I do sit. It's definitely an experience that I think people should try, but it doesn't really bear an…

Yeah, this is a pet peeve of mine. As far as I know, right now it's structurally impossible to have Congress make real reform, or even legislate effectively. There have been a stri…

Not that this has too much to do with what you two were talking about, but (car '(lambda (x) x)) will return lambda in Scheme.

There's no good way to easily gauge scheme with this site. At first I typed in "scheme programming language" and came up with 250 results, "scheme lisp" provided something slightly…

I think what all of these articles point to is that it's expensive or time consuming to raise kids, so people simply don't have them. It seems like the key to raising fertility rat…

Compare with this article from a few months back: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.... . While this article isn't exclusively about just birth rate, it n…

I think that this has to do with flaws in the UIs themselves though. Having one sellable point is a great plan, but not if the rest of the user experience is poor. People should ne…

Maybe. It depends on if we're talking about individual applications or just the desktop experience in general. The thing about people using applications like Photoshop and Word is …

I've heard that C Interfaces and Implementation is a good read after you've got an understanding of the language. I don't know any good encyclopedic references, though. I'm still l…