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Data is central. More specifically: the information schema. This is useful for different cases, for example for data integration and database management (other than the coercion ex…

I don't know if someone has already cited this lengthy interview to Hal Abelson (co-author of SICP) about this change, but I think it is worthy to point it out: http://www.codequar…

It depends on you. Personally I play with it sometimes, but for me there is no danger of addiction. It's a fun and creative game, even relaxing. However, sometime in the future the…

> While some degree of human control could make up for heterostatic forces, a swing too far in either direction would quickly exceed our ability to compensate. Exactly. That's why …

I don't know actual statistics, but I think that in every place there is something like a "normal temperature" each season.

Well, I think this would be the simplest: the temperature at any given latitude will be the average of the last n years. Period. But maybe I'm too naive.

If by "cohesion between design and code" you mean "more attention to the design and usability aspects" then I agree. What Linux still lacks in my opinion is a coherent and usable d…

I'm a happy Linux user for years now (GNU/Linux for the most difficult ones), but I went through the same process: 1. Excitement. Compiling the kernel? Cool! Configure an SMTP serv…

Sure, this is a solution. But my confusion remains: why I should't put all these dependencies in the repository with the code that uses them? In the end, doing so I have (almost) a…

I still don't understand why dependencies don't belong to the repo. My naive reasoning: I just have to clone the repo and bam, I already have all the dependecies needed to build th…

Well, this is true. But again, if I can't make a decision for myself then I'm not completely free. Even if that decision limits my freedom henceforth, I've made that decision excer…

So, everyone must be free? I can't consciously trade some of my civil liberties for something in return? My idea of freedom is the power of choice. Choice to be free, or NOT free.

It's like boiling a frog: if you throw one in boiling water it will immediatly jump away. But if you place a frog in cold water and slowly making it hot, the frog won't even notice…

Thank you for your perspective. Let me recap the issue as I understand it so far: Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google regarding patents infringement for their use of Dalvik in An…

There is something I don't get yet (my ignorance): how this mess will affect the other languages that runs on the JVM (like clojure, scala, etc)?