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Congratulations, Nic, on what is likely the world's first Emacs-hosted startup! For those who don't know, teamchat is implemented in Emacs Lisp using Nic's elnode (async web server…

I know a guy here in the States who would probably be glad to work up something for you at a reasonable price. My contact info is in my profile if you'd like me to put you in touch…

It's a joke, guys.

If you visit #emacs or #lisp on freenode it's very likely someone can help you get Slime sorted out on your Mac. Many of the regulars there use such a setup (including myself).

I left Perl behind some time ago, but I second epi0Bauqu's recommendation of Perlmonks. It's quite an amazing community and resource, and well worth exploring.

With all due respect, your assertion that software engineering lacks extreme safety requirements is false. Like any engineering discipline, software engineering is applied to both …

I'd agree with this, and even take it a bit farther. Many of the graduate level courses have lecture notes online and these can often give insight into current research. Here's a p…

I was lurking on #lisp for most of today and it seems to me you're being a bit oversensitive. You asked about packages at 14:23. Several people tried to figure out exactly what you…

There's certainly a lot of interest and activity around entrepreneurship at Berkeley. This URL gives a sense of some of what's happening here: http://cet.berkeley.edu/curriculum.ht…

It's definitely worthwhile watching the Slime movie. You can find links to it at http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050728.html

You can make Emacs scroll a line at a time by adding this to your .emacs: (setq scroll-conservatively 1)

Great idea! I vote for IRC.