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To be fair: That is actually #1 in the list.

It's a commercial project, so yes, people are willing to pay to see it. They had more than a million visitors in 2009 [1]. [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland (Ger…

"Man builds" is not quite correct. The airport is part of the largest model railway in the world [1]. The thing is build by a rather large team with ten years worth of experience i…

Haskell (GHC at least) has lightweight user-level threads, similar to Erlang.

For a side project I would like to automatically determine the aesthetic quality of a set of colors. I was wondering if there are metrics by which I could measure it. For instance …

Please, please, pretty please: If you use charts, choose a sensible type of chart to illustrate your point. A pie chart is simply wrong for representing a comparison of benchmark r…

Can you talk about the metric(s) by which they measure productivity? I would appreciate it.

I think Clojure is not a simple language. The reason is, that you have to learn about 1) Lisp, 2) Clojure's approach to concurrency (immutable data structures + reference types) an…

Could you elaborate, please? Or point me to a discussion of the issues with said functions? Thanks!

Priceless! Thank you for making my day.

I hope this will be included in future Shoes versions. Shoes is already awesome for making (portable!) retro-games. This will add another great deal of retro-ness. ;)

Who can do numbers 3, 5 and 8 in six minutes? I guess they will make you a Better Programmer (tm), but will consume slightly more time. Or does the article claim to make me a Bette…

No matter what you do and how you do it: most likely it will work for some people and won't work for others. If you do what just works for you, that's probably sufficient to be suc…

For games, Hamburg (Germany) is great. Probably slightly more expensive than Berlin, but at least as great in terms of public transportation and culture.

Nuclear power is not an option. There are about three companies in the world that have the know-how to build a nuclear power plant. And they are already at the limit of their build…

I also thought, that these small "test" assignments might be a trick to get (some part of) the work for free. In ten hours for free plus ten hours at five per cent, times the numbe…

I'd also recommend Ruby and suggest you take a look at Shoes ( http://shoooes.net/ ) which makes it very easy to code GUI-apps with all sorts of fun-stuff in them like animations, …

Why? It's often a good idea to google for an answer. See the second result for "number of gas stations in the us", for example: http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/number-gas-stations…

A very important point is comprehensibility of any voice and readability of all the text in your video. Some demo videos I've seen are not too great at these.

The joke wasn't too bad, was it?

or, you can just do like others and learn rails or python. I suggest learning Ruby, not Rails. Unless you know Ruby, you will not be able to really understand how Rails works. Ruby…

One could argue, that "raw foodism" isn't really technology. In your example the technology would be "fire" or "cooking".

"Wishful thinking" is a great technique to produce clear and concise code. I use it whenever possible. It's absolutely recommendable! I don't recall if PG used the term, but Gerald…