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Well I'd never heard of Wordnik but this is very cool and I'll be using it. This is like a respectable Dictionary.com+ Urban Dictionary. I don't see the category theory definition …

Hi there. This happened last night after I was tweaking the number of FastCGI processes. I changed it from four backends to one. Then Lighttpd believed the backend was overloaded: …

Lisp's macros are a lot more expressive. They don't look weird (unlike Template Haskell) within the language, they look like normal constructs. And they're native to Lisp. I miss L…

That's a good way to see if the language actually helps you do things easier, too!

I did a ten-week course in BSL (passed with full marks!) and your assessment matches up with my experience, which was that it was like exaggerated enthusiastic telling of a story. …

I just temporarily gave up on something I was trying to program. That's why I'm on Hacker News. Thanks for backing me up, random Internet blogger!

I am the same. I yawn when nervous or scared. I used to yawn when walking past a bunch of thugs at school in the mornings. People at work tend to yawn when I talk to them.

Yeah, I worked it out just as the interviewer explained it. $0.1 per click, 20 out of 100 visitors click, that's 20*0.1=$2.0 per 100 visitors. We need $20 dollars so we need 1000 v…

Smart people get their news from aggregators and feeds. Normal people go to sites directly for their daily dosage of drivel. Both Google search for individual stories. It just so h…

Deja Vu Sans Mono is highly superior to all the mentioned fonts there. It works perfectly clearly with anti-aliasing. I honestly wonder if the people praising other fonts are just …

I don't think the PDF offers any new insights for existing web developers, but nice to emphasise it nonetheless. The F-Shaped reading ( http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_patter…

I've wanted and want this feature so hard it's unreal. It's also based on Webkit which is amazing because it is the most ACID-compliant browser last I checked, supports JavaScript,…

> Doctors are urged to be vigilent for a new bug that has arriving in Britain This has broken grammar, and they can't spell ‘vigilant’. In the second paragraph. Don't the Telegraph…

I don't think this is really what is meant in SICP. It's not that the function takes in inputs, it's that the program itself is a language evaluator. Consider the following program…

I believe SICP's definition of a language involves these: means of simple data, means of combination and means of abstraction. Numbers, strings, data structures/objects are the sim…

Presumably this is newsworthy because everyone assumes building Tetris in Haskell is harder than in an imperative/OO language. This is a good thing because it proves that it's not.…

It's "should have"; the contraction is "should've".

I have seen my coworkers viewing applications... many were discarded outright because of stupid spelling errors or poor grammar, or no letter at all. Applicants whose work and home…