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This also works wonders with a lightly-held pencil when you're falling asleep in class. Kept me awake through many early-morning lectures.

Because that is what they said. In so many words. I trust their second sentence is relevant and makes more sense to investors, but I imagined it being their slogan. "Gamador: We la…

I was giggling at Gamador's summary. We make social games. We launch faster, iterate faster, and use metrics better. "Use metrics better"? I guess that one wasn't crafted with cons…

Agreed. I find martial arts discussions funny. More often than not it's a bunch of people arguing over which one is the "best" in a "real-world fight", which usually degrades into …

I actually pronounce it "tree-eye", even though that's all sorts of incorrect.

I think the syntax cards were pretty bogus anyways. If you really wanted to compare syntax, you'd do better to compare grammars (e.g., Scheme's: http://www.schemers.org/Documents/S…

Provably safe at compile time Is this true? I was under the impression that the Haskell standard didn't formally specify its type semantics. Do works like http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~…

I'm surprised there seems to be so much LaTeX hatred floating around the comments. I don't really know anything about typography, but typesetting my documents using markup is a ple…

But I am certain (=believe) that practical applications will come out of this. As any deeper understanding of the universe inevitably leads to practical applications, I should thin…

Physicists hope that the LHC will help answer the most fundamental questions in physics, questions concerning the basic laws governing the interactions and forces among the element…

Also, why does the URL need to be human-readable? URLs are for computers. The content is for the human. Disagreed. I can't stand sites with ugly, incomprehensible URLs: even if the…

Wow, I'm really liking Songite. Great work keeping it simple -- not enough of that these days. Edit: Just noticed something playing around with it. Is there a way to correct its re…

You don't know anyone who's seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? No toon can resist the ol' "Shave and a Haircut" trick!

If you own a domain that's an OpenID provider, you won't be able to use that. Aren't there OpenID users who host their own identities exclusively for themselves? Is there danger in…

I must be out of the loop, but I was surprised to read that Guillermo del Toro was going to be directing this one. Peter Jackson is still closely involved, it seems: http://derhobb…

Somebody's used to reddit's markdown syntax. :)

Never something I thought to read about, but definitely entertaining. Now somebody needs to do a writeup on the history of Nerf guns!

Interesting. I wonder how technical you could get by taking a Socratic sort of approach. Perhaps you could get people to understand basic first-order logic, or at least that logic …

As a competitor (albeit one who's none too serious or good), it's remarkable how precisely you've reflected my attitude about programming contests. Here's a written sample of my nu…

How is it any different than Digg/Reddit/HN? Here's an obvious one: TechCrunch items get posted on Hacker News. Digg/Reddit/aggregator items, not so much.

would have taken the time to register to comment Didn't think of it that way. If you think the post would help people, I could cross-post. Or you could post a link and/or copy & pa…

Hi, I wanted to give you my ideas for the Social Skydiving challenge without the hassle of signing up for the comment systems. So, I hope you see this here. I have a lot of ideas, …

Reddit had a good list awhile back: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ji9m/ Includes ones for Scheme, Python, Factor, Cat, OCaml, Forth, and Brainfuck. And, of course, …

You're doing two filters with list comprehensions which you could switch with one span: quicksort (x:xs) = let (a, b) = span ( Actually, this is incorrect. span will split the list…

This was not published in Artificial Intelligence, but in AI Expert Ah. So it was. Thanks, though!