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Got it, messing with it now :) There a neat way to use emacs with it?

Any chance of a version that works on Snow Leopard being released? Just tried installing – no luck. A shame, I'm about to start typesetting a paper.

Interesting to note: Pages.app handles ligatures quite nicely (type "office", for example).

I'd prefer not to treat all my customers as morons. (Regardless of how many are...) EDIT: What's with the boom of posts demonstrating how stupid non-computer people are? It's rathe…

Ah, don't we wish. There's this thing called an "Axiom" that is, ruefully, generally, arbitrary. Definitions, too. e.g. Some say the set of natural numbers contain 0, some say it d…

BNO (Breaking News Online), the company who posted the news ahead of the NYT, is reputable. I'd say they have a lot riding on their reputation.

While I completely agree, and upvoted you for it, I think the implication of this is more along the lines of "whoa, the NYT is no longer the formost producer of breaking news (most…

I, too, do wonder. Right now, it's not clear what those conditions were; my comment was meant to address the only clear-cut part of this vague article: that 15 year-olds were worki…

I worked at a lab programming for minimum wage when I was 15; this isn't sweatshop work. Children are allowed to work in the US, too. (Though, certainly, not at factories.) The tit…

That's not quite true – as you zoom in, you're no longer simply taking Re(c) = x pixel on the screen and Im(c) = y pixel on the screen. The more you zoom in, you're moving in on th…

The trouble with that is that the sole purpose of our product is to facilitate connections between people selling or offering goods and services. Without people and the stuff they …

As additional anecdotal evidence, this is true for me, though I'm still using Python for my next project simply because it's a proven language with proven libraries. But I'm certai…

X makes you invisible - notice how your opacity changes? Just go invisible and let them zombie walk by you, the continue on your merry way :)

Thanks! Google wasn't particularly useful for me, unfortunately. Good for me to know, as a PS3 layman.

Could anyone tell me what map_htab and write_htab are?

The difference is that this site is called "Hacker News."

Really? Let's call this "cracked," not "hacked" – we're only furthering the misunderstanding by using the incorrect term here, too.

Make him a language: let me elaborate. Use Python or Ruby and write a library of functions that he can call in particular ways that will make a "game." Let him learn how they work,…

I've been hoping for this for over a year now. I'm _more_ than happy to support their journalists oversea and at home (USA for me, as for the NYT). Without some sort of support, we…

One of the most remarkable parts of the language is that is does not have recursion. Nor does it have ways of explicitly differentiating temporally distant events. This is an old a…

I'll do that – write out a list based on the business plan and try to navigate the fastest way through it to launch. Thanks for that – it gets overwhelming to consider all the proj…

I've checked out Arc before, and it looks pretty neat. Perhaps it could handle some of the "simpler" part of the application, and I let Python handle some of the more intense serve…

I'll parse last first. I probably should have mentioned that I am a programmer, mostly Python, but have work experience in Java and am capable with JS/HTML/CSS (and have knowledge …

I've got an idea for a startup which I think many people would find useful. I've gone through the following steps: 1) Other people (from different demographics) agree that this ide…

I'm always looking for sources like these, but I can never find a place that let's me just look at file 1 and move on from there. If anyone's got any resources that might give me a…