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Clang v. GCC all over again?

I've always wondered about the aggregate effect of wind pressure across the length of the cable. It seems like it could be significant.

Very good article.

Be wary of an architect who hands you anything and tells you to implement it. Real architects talk to you and sit down and write code with you.

I think it is fairer to say that tests can specify a system but not to the extent that you personally want to.

Different thing. Spec# is about embedding specs in your code. Spek appears to be a Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework ala RSpec. http://rspec.info/

Does anyone have a list of the 50+ options? No article seems to show them.

I've long wanted a shell with logical separation of each command/output pair.

Like this? :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2k9JwGpm1w#t=50s

He starts with an anecdote about cheating and then lays out HFT an implies it is cheating without saying how. If he had to defend his assertion that it is cheating he wouldn't have…

I'd prefer to live in a society where things like this were a matter of research rather than pronouncements by bureaucrats: > "The distraction of the giant screen in the Tesla is n…

But is it illegal, or is this simply a civil thing?

I'm still not sure what the legal rationale is for treating link publication as copyright violation. When you publish a link, you are not copying anything, the person following the…

To me it's odd to see an article talk about empathy as a skill or a thing you can do. I've always thought being empathy as something you are at a feeling level. I did some looking …

This post reinforces my sense that Scala is the new C++.

You say "a hub" but I wonder whether it would be many? How close would such an effect be to hubs we see in scale free networks? In those, preferential attachment seems to induce hu…

I think that if it was your money paying for a lawyer you'd see the problem more readily. The way you described the legal process is accurate: have a trial, having findings of fact…

Is there some result in the theory of random graphs that says that you can't have a graph of a certain size without developing hubs? It seems to happen in most systems.

Freedom of press is guaranteed only to those who own one. -- A. J. Liebling

If that's all they were concerned with they could just use GPS readings to invalidate the service agreement rather than switching the machine off. In any case, I wish that Congress…

I'd hope that all costs are transparent at public universities.

I believe there was a copyright safe harbor for content on the internet before DMCA. However, it may have been just through case law. BBS and USENet operators took advantage of it …

We have privatized prisons with quotas for the number of prisoners. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quot... What is a cry of "entrapment" next to incentive?…

It's interesting to see how the array programming languages have handled this. The way it works (loosely) is that everything is an array. A scalar is kind of a degenerate array, an…