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> End-users don't care about executing "non optimal code." I seem to remember Java Applets & Java "Web start" (or pretty much any browser "plug-in" runtime) causing a fair bit of g…

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but provisioning 16-32gb for a production server doesn't seem to be unusual these days and the cost negligible...

Presumably "the industry" ≠ "lisp programmers"...

I think the technical term for this is "Passing the buck"...

It's interesting that the "Privacy Controls" seem to only change how you see the data they've collected about you, but doesn't seem to change how or when they collect data about yo…

How so?

You're conflating two different problems. OLPC was never meant to replace food (or other necessities). Additionally, having a dictionary, spell checker and encyclopedia at your fin…

I'm not sure I understand your question. The submission links to an article at fox13memphis.com. The user I'm replying to suggests a "much better" article at seattletimes.com becau…

That's in the article linked.

According to the wikipedia page, Very similar actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_Latin_alphabet The images in the article had me thinking otherwise.

It's definitely a "marketing page" in that it's only purpose is to convince people to support sb-827.

I was replying to the comment above which pointed out correctly that the order in which the server receives the requests may differ from the order in which they were sent.

My mistake, I guess I didn't really think that through...

What does "SKU" mean in this context?

It'd be simple enough to add an 'order' identifier (request timestamp, etc) to the requests. Edit: nm. My mistake, not as easy as that using only css!

Cool! After reading this article I clearly remember buying "Kung-fu shoes" in DTLA/Chinatown as a kid, they were a couple of bucks a piece and probably my favorite shoes at the tim…