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Many, many people in jail were severely mentally ill. There was no support for them. So UK is getting as bad as the US? Or has it never been good over there? Given how mental healt…

A reasonable summary of what they're trying to build here is "HyperCard for the internet", which is actually a pretty cool idea. That sounds very much like what the VPRI people hav…

Your data is still digital at least. What about the E. coli evolution experiment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli_long-term_evol... ) that has to store its data in a…

an EE can't simply change the brightness of the sun to meet a requirement. We can. Wow, you can change the brightness of the sun to meet a requirement? BTW, there are quite a few l…

It's also freely available on https://archive.org/search.php?query=Five%20Hundred%20and%20... ;-)

What has the Berne Convention have to do with it? I've compared the Elsevier contract draft with my local legislation, and the wording of the contract is simply unenforceable.

That's ridiculous. It's not even funny. It's also null and void in my country (.cz), and probably in many other European countries.

The flag is bleached and the other things are dusty, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood solar radiation.

I semi-understand that (intellectually), I just don't have the brain circuits for internalizing any of that. This is illogical and I simply have problems with illogical things. ( T…

A lot of people wouldn't ask them back to their place right away. But that doesn't necessarily mean being upfront and to the point wouldn't work, it certainly does, all the time. S…

I have a paper from my shrink that says that essentially, I have had a blind spot for these things since my childhood. Only in recent years have I started to understand what it mea…

Java has always been a good language if you ignored the ecosystem. You mean "no unsigned types (even though the language is essentially machine-level when it comes to integers), no…

I think its more of the realization that types are actually freaking useful for determining "provability" of a system. C++ perhaps takes it too far with Const, but it allows the co…

You can't put me in an uncomfortable situation. Reading these things only confirms to me that I will never be able to understand all the other people.

Except that of all the things you've named, dynamically typed languages are hardly "a fad". It's surprising (?), though, that the lousy ones are the most popular ones.

And C# "fixes" the deficiencies by heaping features upon features. Already it looks like the MS version of Perl.

I'd go for Light Ordnance Rapid Deflection High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator. Much scarier that way.

Well, someone edit the title, then!

The domains table currently has 84 fields. Are you sure you've read up on your C. J. Date? I've had that once before: someone complaining that "queries take too much time" with a p…

Downing mortars? How can you "down" something firmly standing on the ground?

"Super simple interface, and it's even written in Erlang." Meaning that you probably still can't read email in it, but it can already do conference calls. ;)

most people intuitively perceive the fact that "the majority of drivers consider themselves above average" as human stupidity I intuitively perceive it as good drivers being cluste…

Europeans were almost wiped out by the plague Uh, nope. What does "almost wiped out" mean to you? 30% of population dead is "almost wiped out"? It's horrible, of course, but there …

But the web site still works in other browsers, doesn't it?