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Well, that's how Expect became public domain...

I don't know about that. For a while, at least, people raved about DD's coffee.

It's human 1.0, really.

That's a saturated market too. :)

"Publish or perish." The dirty secret of universities: the job of most faculty isn't to teach, it's to research and bring prestige to the university. In the sciences, research is a…

Factory workers here would revolt if you limited them to 45 hours. Many regularly work 60.

These workers are taking it to the extreme: 12 months on, their kids have a shot at going to college rather than working in a factory.

I'm curious... how would you have developed a schema for S-Expressions without it ending up just as verbose? What do you lose? End tags? http://www.agentsheets.com/lisp/XMLisp/ as …

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How many times was Marion Jones tested? He had BALCO-type money that could help evade the current state of the art in testing.

No, just Lance Armstrong. (Many allegations have followed him.) To be fair, he's accused of blood doping, not steroids. Cycling seems to be governed by the phrase, "If you ain't ch…

Do you believe that Electronic Arts would use LUA if it produced an inferior result? Do you think it would harm their efficiency and portability if they weren't mystically "excepte…

This assumes that a non-apple compiler will yield an inferior result. Unity3D is one example to the contrary. ActionScript may or may not be another, but efficiency is our secret s…

If you need Lisp, Python, or Ruby to increase your productivity to cut corners on web development times, perhaps that means you're not charging enough for your services. Java or bu…

It makes more sense than it sounds. Client-side: Punch tape goes in, results come out. The idea of a server doesn't make sense because there isn't enough power for time sharing. Se…

...until Apple changes its mind.

It would be more expensive, not less. The post office currently operates as efficiently as it does because of the economies of scale, and as such is close to break even. It's not l…

The problem is that bulk mail subsidizes the rest of the system. Now, you might say, then the system is flawed and perhaps a private solution would be better! The problem is that t…

This is the kind of time where you build something larger than the minimal viable product. Something you may want to consider is building an open source project, then charging comm…

For PHP at least, there is a license match issue.

Obviously, some problems are harder than others. However, many of us come from backgrounds of some privilege. You have a computer and likely have the capacity to program. You speak…

I just don't understand this. A file is very very very simple to convert once. Tell your developers, "If you don't encode in UTF-16, you will have a performance penalty. Set your f…

What do the overlords say? I learned Just Enough TCL for some Expect scripts, and anyone who is working on problems that need the features Redis has aren't going to sweat a little …

raises hand Single people and Dual Income No Kids.

"During Pandora’s first year, the 90210 zip code was the area listening to Pandora the most" This was because, to make sure that listeners were in the US, they required a zip code …