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They had to destroy Homer because he was not german but greek. Had Homer been german, they would never have questioned a national hero.

Less than 100 people were killed by the Inquisition in Spain, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Number_of_alleged_witches...

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They want to define happiness as the ultimate goal in life. For me it is not happiness, but intelligence. Two weeks ago, the economist asked: Can too many brainy people be a danger…

You can use camomile library to handle unicode strings, count code points, perform locale aware lowercase / uppercase, etc For utf8 regexes, you can use Pcre in ocaml, which is fas…

Make a html, embed the images in base64 using mhtifier.py, and rename the html as doc. Word will open it without problems. Further instructions: http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php…

There is a novel about that. "Schild's Ladder", by Greg Egan. But in that novel, the sphere of destruction expands only at c/2.

How to disable the super key overview manually: Edit /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js Comment this line: global.display.connect('overlay-key', Lang.bind(overview, overview.togg…

I like M+, a font designed by a japanese. In particular, I use M+ 1m regular. I like it because I'm shortsighted, so when I put it in 14pt, I can see very clearly.

To help the FBI track you. I support Richard O'Dwyer, but I'm concerned about my own anonymity. These people are crazy, i'm not signing this petition.

The right tool for the job is anything that gives you the power to get shit done. Maintainability is secondary if you can't do the job in the first place. Think about it. I think t…

Certainly, I couldn't have done what I did without Haskell, or with more traditional languages, like C++. The most challenging task I've done with Haskell, was to find the right co…

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I was not confortable with D and C++, and I was curious about Haskell.

No, it's totally unknown here in Chile. Even professors don't know anything about a language named Haskell.

It never occurs to me that a company could be "powered" by Haskell. In my old job, I used haskell for everything from satellital image analysis to the web frontend, but I didn't te…

Thanks, will do something about it. I must.

I think she is a little bit neurotic, and she missed all the evolutionary stuff - that we are hardwired for social interaction. I live an overly solitary life, and I crave for comp…

I think that ESR should employ a more radical license for his programs: the "do what the fuck you want to" public license. If RMS want to dress like St Ignacious, do what the fuck …

The Game, by Neil Strauss.

It's called the Pygmalion effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect

Yeah, but the syntax and the verbosity hides your aim. In the obscure years previous to c++11, meta-programming in c++ would have required a language lawyer. In haskell, the syntax…

It's a matter of time. If we're all going to live 400 years or more, we could all be super persons. Nobody will rush to achieve multiple things in no time. One thing after another.…

But this is what we have, and I am Candid, so I believe that this is the best possible world. What does the author of this essay wants? A mind-reading machine? I RTFM, so I don't c…