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Thank you. I would love an article about accessibility for people who must use voice commands or those who cannot use a pointing device. Dragon is fine with spoken keyboard command…

Because mathematicians, physicists, and engineers use i through n for integers in their mathematical formulas, and Fortran was their FORmula TRANslator into computerese. (Additiona…

Would Perl's Unicode::Normalize module fit your bill? I believe Unicode::Collate uses it so that a single codepoint accented 'e', for example, sorts the same as 'e' with a combinin…

I'm sure you're not alone. My beau gets motion sickness at the sight of some GUIs, and I get seizures from same. Hence, I will not be taking a look at Google's new homepage, and I'…

... and away from people with accessibility issues.

IIRC, Ruby lets you set taintedness Safe Levels with the -T command-line option or setting $SAFE per thread.

Content MathML to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML#Content_MathML

You want XSLT. ;-)

Nevertheless, I've gotten so bored by the sight of movie CGI. There's just too much texture or not enough light or something. Please, someone, make a physical model, shine some lig…

May I suggest http://www.artima.com/ , although not just anyone can post news there?

I sing in a couple opera companies in New York City.

Obligatory xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/451/

"History Lesson" by Arthur C. Clarke ( http://web.math.hr/~veky/T/T1/historylesson.txt )

If you attack us, we'll use the red matter.

That people have to resort to such creative contortions is a testament to what a pile "Thou shalt not use tables for layout" is.

I, too, hate your saying this. I hope you're joking. Because bullet point summaries and trying to make the article seem non-intimidating rather contradict what the author is saying…

What do you mean by "penultimate"?

Irony is fine. I'm just tired of its current popularity: http://www.google.com/search?as_oq=ironic+irony&as_sites...

Am I the only person who wants to stab my eyes out whenever I see the word 'ironic'? I count two appearances in the article, and one in the title.

We can plan this all out in a novel called The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress .

"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence." -- Leonard "Bones" McCoy, 2009

> 3) Be a testing masochist, i.e., I ruthlessly try to break my own code. 'Hap' means luck. Therefore, the happy path is the lucky path. Being a natural pessimist, I can't help pic…

I smile when I think of Ruby's throw/catch (not to be confused with raise/rescue) as labeled GOTO.