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It's impossible for both B and Python to be untyped. Pick a definition and stick with it.

Well, thank you. I suspected as much but I wasn't sure. I am honestly happy to hear this discussed openly, and I'm happy to hear any of my comments characterized as 'productive'. (…

I think the potted example on the web page is somewhat poor, as it seems to be a problem existing package management systems already solve. The more interesting aspect is the sandb…

> do we need another browser? Exactly: WorldWideWeb ought to be enough for everyone. This isn't Thunderdome. Multiple browsers can be successful at the same time.

If you're really poor, it would likely be useful to know that hooking headphones up to the microphone jack gives you a usable microphone. Just speak directly into one of the earpie…

How much does it cost be the one they choose?

As usual, Common Lisp has many of the same features. The only thing it doesn't really have now is the same ecosystem as Python.

Anarcho-capitalism is the only anarchy that is possible. All other forms require a state, regardless of whether it calls itself one, to enforce the "no property" dictate.

Well, now we know what they've all been smoking over there in Redmond.

> Just use full-disk encryption -- it's free. People can make bizarre assumptions without realizing it. This advice assumes that it's safe to have a disk full of noise (even if you…

When the rational mind is in the land of the weird, it isn't taking a holiday.

On another topic, the diagram is wrong: 'English' and 'British' are mutually-exclusive, as English are Germanic and British, Brythonic.

Linux is precisely as Gooey as you want it to be. So's FreeBSD, as a matter of fact. This isn't Windows. This isn't MacOS. Each PC Unix variant offers you precisely as much choice …

I'm not seeing any of the book titles. I'm just getting a link to Slate.

> In large cities there is less than 82 MHz of white space available AFAIK. So? Is everything about the large cities, all the time? Can't small cities and rural areas have one solu…

We couldn't think of a use for hard drives over 500MB a while back, too.

How long will it be before this software is cracked and Intel has to think harder about this stuff? Also: IBM did the same kind of thing beginning in the 1960s with System/360 and …

> Like I've mentioned before, Google and browser support are hardly the limit of how annotations would be useful. But they're the only reasons anyone would use them NOW.

Yet if you criticize their lack of knowledge, you're the asshole. If people evinced the same kind of ignorance about cars there would be more outrage.

This is somewhat old: The sysenter interface on x86 Linux is no longer experimental, and it's faster than the old int 0x80 interface as well. [1] However, going through either is a…

> I swore that the mirrors actually were functional, and you could damage stuff that was on the sidewalk with the boot-kick. Both true. Neither possible with the Doom engine.

Simplicity, like everything else, is a fashion. Compare Beethoven to Cage, or the Sistine Chapel to the works of Le Corbusier or, for that matter, Romanticism to Modernism.

No, that illustrates a different problem entirely. He would be just as incomprehensible were he writing in calligraphy.

> Theory of CS is same as Mathematics of Computation And Mathematics is the same as Logic, and Logic is a branch of Philosophy, which is ultimately concerned with English (and othe…

'Politically correct' is just another way to say 'being polite, even to those without power.'