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I've never used any Lisp before but would like to start. PG's ANSI CL book looks good, as does Seibel's PCL book, but I've also heard great things about SICP. Then again, I see tha…

Regarding battery technology, if I'm not mistaken, that's already a solved problem: Lithium-Ion batteries have great capacity and are quite light. Their only problem is "venting wi…

Converting cars to electric is ... not optimal. Cars are built very heavy these days due to "safety concerns". They're also heavy because they're loaded with features. It's very un…

Ah. Ok, then that makes things easier. For your case, don't use Python, nor PHP. Both are pretty much just like Perl and Java with only minor syntax changes. If you want to expand …

Why are you determined to use either Python or PHP in this latest project? I would make sure you have a good answer to that question before using something besides Perl.

I love LaTeX for docs that simply use one of the built-in documentclasses -- and which use no extra packages or custom commands or environments. I strongly dislike it for anything …

Wait. So, getting 4 hours sleep, then showering and rushing out of the house with a cup of coffee within 15 minutes of waking isn't optimal?

From the article: "I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for reusable code. ... you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a menace." ???

Working at night is great. Trouble is, you pay the price the next day when you're downing coffees just to keep from falling asleep on your keyboard. I'm guessing at least some here…

Could it be that you're just scarred from trying to do branching with cvs? I've heard svn is much nicer regarding that.

That's quite nice. Still not sure how I feel about wiki-style plain text markup formats though. I like them for simple and short docs, emails, and README's because it looks good in…

Those seem to just be a collection of html files where you can edit them and fill in the blanks. I guess if you like having your docs in raw html, it could be useful for those who …

Yes. Thank you. I like POD for man-page -style docs, but for longer multi-section docs I'm not sure it buys you much more than plain text (except that you can easily convert to oth…

Definitely beautiful pdf output, but I was never happy with the available "latex2html" converters. Bonus for being able to render mathematics in your docs. Edit -- Also, I agree wi…

Why do you use docbook?

I find that a plain text file longer than about a dozen pages in a terminal window -- containing more than a handful of sections and subsections -- becomes a pain in the neck to ef…

You need to write a manual that's more than a few pages. Maybe you'd like to be able to provide the client/customer/community with html as well as pdf. What format do you use, and …