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So murder someone who wasn't involved in a purported rape because he at some point in the past introduced a purported victim to the purported rapist. There's so much wrong with thi…

I remember when Levo started this project. At the time, he was getting fed up with the various editors that he was using while he was working on his compiler. He didn't like any no…

There's a URL for each user that shows their standing. Any recent (last 30 days) reports are listed there. You can't tell who reported you, but you can tell what they were complain…

The self-promotion on lobsters is rampant, and not surprisingly, most of the self-promotion is very low quality crap. However, I have seen a few self-promotion links that were bril…

I don't think I've ever posted any articles on Lobsters, but there are a bunch of users there that use the "report" feature any time that they see a post that doesn't support their…

Words have meaning. The fact that you fear that possibility is indicative.

I wonder if Vladimir Ilyushin wrote one as well.

For context: VCs make much more money by flipping money-losing concerns that have high growth rates, than by building profitable companies. The resulting behavior is predictable.

That TSS in Boston was an amazing confluence of people, mostly all unknown at the time! There was: You, Gavin, Bob, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Marc Fleury, Neelan Choski, Patrick Linskey…

I think it only reasonable then for you to show us how to do it in COBOL, Lisp, or some other 1950s programming language.

You were one of his favorite people that he ever got to work with. Even years later he couldn't stop gushing about how proud he was of you. No exaggeration.

Yes. He wrote big chunks of the original Davlik libs.

I knew Crazy Bob online for a while before we met. We both ended up working with some of the same packages (early Java enterprise stuff) for some of the same big companies, and we …

Hey Sam, that's actually the JavaOne that I was flying to from a meeting in St Louis. When I got on the plane, I met ... Crazy Bob and the rest is history.

For what it's worth, he still talked about you pretty much every time we got together. He loved his time there.

Well, it worked great for Elon

That's a weird way to look at it. The many states that have agreed to this (have passed the bill) have simply accepted that the votes of the people is worth more than the feelings …

Yes, but less of an obnoxious accent (I live in Boston. The accent is crazy.)

But I heard Alex Jones say something different ...

California has already passed the National Popular Vote bill. https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation Republican controlled states don't want people's votes to coun…

My mom uses Facebook. I use Google. That's the difference.

My boss at my previous job made $40 million a year, and he was literally single-handedly tanking the company. He got fired and so he went to work for Sundar Pichai at Google ... ma…

>I'd be curious to know about any/all languages where types can be passed to functions, returned from functions -- and even generated at runtime by functions... that is, where the …

Reading as a prereq definitely weeds out most of the MAGAs.

I hate the Python syntax using "else" for this, but I love the feature. I've often wanted both a "then" and an "else" from both for and while loops. The "then" would be for a succe…