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I know that it is helpful at times to realize that invention and innovation could happen in a myriad of ways, but I don't think that is a fair way of looking at things in this case…

This might be a good place to demo the language, assuming it is meant to be general purpose: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Languages

Thanks, but may want to correct: method_as_fun = o.my-method which should be: method_as_fun = o.my_method and the examples themselves just look a little crazy, imo. Not crazy becau…

Another good one was the Tandy Model 100 Webserver: http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php source: http://static.humanclock.com/files/apachesrc.txt

> Most “scripting” languages don't support annotations for checking parameters and return values I coded in Java for many years and Ruby for the last several, the lack of explicit …

Though we had a bit of fun in the past when multiple people are merging migrations at once, since it keeps version #s in the bottom of structure.sql and that can get out-of-whack i…

I think Raleigh is the best bang for the buck for tech, food, drink, and residence anywhere in the U.S. Downtown Raleigh has art festivals, music festivals (Hopscotch, Wide Open Bl…

> I'm now highly dependent on noise canceling headphones When you wear them are you listening to music, white/pink noise, etc. or just have them on with nothing playing? What kinds…

Also fit for livestock, but difficult to bale. And used medicinally (anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial to treat headaches, tinnitus, vertigo, Wei syndrome, alcoholism and hangover),…

Metric time is fun, but why not take it a step further and abandon the metric system, which places too much emphasis on base 10? We used the (21 cm) hydrogen line in the Pioneer pl…

This is at once a brilliant and useless post. The brilliance is that of course you should provide something that people need that is risk averse, and using the analogy of making ti…

> And how exactly is it "different"? Robert Nyman of Mozilla pointed me at this: https://blog.mozilla.org/ligong/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-the... "Foxconn stated that they intend to…

You can gain back a lot more than you lose, even if you get into a habit of "better" eating and more exercise for months. You probably think that exercising and eating "better" sho…

I wish Douglas Adams was still alive and writing. And, someone should make marvin_bot ( https://twitter.com/marvin_bot ) start-up a conversation with @bankofamerica.

> he "compiled" the between function in his head Really? How about "adequately understood the function and did not have to reread it". We are humans, not compilers. ;)

Awesome! Looking forward to being able to use FF OS on my laptop!

> God made the integers. All else is man made. "God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man" - Leopold Kronecker. Possibly misquoted by Raymond Ayoub in "Musings of the M…

The first version of anything worthwhile is typically an experiment. I'm excited about the prospect of a great way to write Go apps in the future that is better than what we have n…

> We wanted to know if it was possible to use Building Blocks not only for its main purpose, that’s creating phone applications, but also as a base to create a standard web site. W…

> One reason is that Firefox OS uses the Android kernel. It uses parts of Android in HAL, but Gonk isn't Android.

With two big differences: 1. Knowledge resources available to team and experience of the organization in the subject matter far exceed what the WebOS team had. 2. Was free/open and…

Could you provide a link to a sample chapter and table of contents? Thanks!

I think having fewer elements when they are unnecessary is a great idea, if it makes the interface easier to use. However, in this case, though I don't dislike GitHub's new interfa…