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Nope. If you did, I'm pretty sure the EPA would shut you down. Emissions regulations aren't quite as strict for tractors as for cars and trucks, but they are headed in the same dir…

But it probably used : to separate the volume name from the file name.

Actually, agua is feminine. But it takes el instead of la because it starts with an accented a . The common language-learning advice is "Don't learn the genders of nouns; learn the…

I assume that some site has hostgator-related links with two slashes instead of one. Due to the two slashes, the GoogleBot doesn't realize that it's indexing their own results page…

If the sender has an ASCII Wingdings, and the receiver has a Unicode Wingdings, the receiver gets a J (at least if the receiver is using Apple Mail).

Go provides straight-ahead, blocking-is-OK concurrency. GCD provides callback-based concurrency, like node.js, but with several worker threads instead of just one.

Yes, websockets should be fine. Making my proxy support websockets was a little difficult, but I think it works now. If the traffic is compliant with the protocols that ports 80 an…

On the other hand, there are firewall administrators who do extensive filtering on ports 80 and 443 and allow other outgoing traffic by default. We get pretty ticked off when some …

That is the OP's main point, except turned around. He was measuring progress by results, not by effort expended, and saying that it takes exponential effort to reach linear results…

I finally managed to track down the definition of memoryword from texlive-20130530-source/texk/web2c/texmfmem.h. Here it is: typedef union { #ifdef TeX glueratio gr; twohalves hh; …

It works when unions are used correctly. If they are used to deliberately subvert the type system (e.g., put in an int, get an array of char out) it doesn't work. But C has so many…

Probably because a lot of Go users _are_ generics-hating curmudgeons :-) (even though the team aren't)