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Can we squeeze bear/bare (the verbs) in there?

I agree that for a novice a trivial example doesn't inspire them to learn more. But an experienced programmer who just wasn't familiar with this concept might appreciate more a str…

I've found that the concept of anonymous functions is the biggest hurdle to get over -- closures seem to follow as a natural extension of that. I explained this to someone recently…

Belvedere is particularly mind-bending: http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/belvedere.html

Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to delete a hundred comments...

With a decent error page, you can at least give ordinary people a link back to the home page.

The more they produce, the more I can't help but feel that Boston Dynamics must be stopped at all costs.

I thought this a while ago with Basecamp. Although I'm sure they use it internally to manage their own projects, since they don't do client work anymore they're not using it for it…

It's slang from Cambridge University (and maybe elsewhere, but that's where I encountered it) for a student studying mathematics. Related: 'NatSci' (pronounced natskee) for someone…

I was totally expecting this to be something about automatically-persisting document interfaces.

OAuth is great, but the app doesn't actually say what it's going to do with my Twitter account. Developers especially are wary of handing over access to their accounts (OAuth or no…

Actually, the double slash is useful for at least one thing. You can use it in web pages to make relative URLs which preserve the protocol, but change the server. Suppose you have …

"Who would build something like this? Just as in the early days of the mouse and windowed GUI, a system based upon 10/GUI's principles would likely be best suited to a systems buil…

It might actually reduce clutter, since plenty of apps are now individually adding rotation options to their settings. Having a system-wide setting would simply consolidate all of …

MUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR REAL MEN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yH_j8-VVLo

Huh, that approach would never have occurred to me. Very elegant.

This is cool, but I won't truly be happy until someone's implemented Conway's Game of Life in Conway's Game of Life.

I think perhaps it was a play on 'chichi', meaning 'affectedly trendy': http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chichi#Adjective

Of course, it's not too tricky to configure, say, Apache to block access to all the .svn directories: http://www.subversionary.org/martintomes/preventing-access-t... http://blog.sa…

It's the former. Sure, it's not a problem if your code is already open-sourced, but plenty of people are working on things that aren't. And aside from code, you may have private da…

I find this quote confusing. I can accept that gratis sex is better than paid-for sex, but then it's a pretty banal analogy to make -- in simplistic terms, anything is 'better' if …

Drawing people's attention to a vote and promoting yourself isn't vote rigging in any sense. Vote rigging is tricking people to vote for you, or directly manipulating the voting me…

Badly.

Probably something really sinister, like the ability to route your phone calls to you, or something.

From the article: "The app isn't running in the background; it's working server-to-server." So presumably all they've done is a deal with AT&T to access the cell-location data for …