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Why must all web apps have kewl spelling nowadays? How long before it's fashionable to put back the "E"?

markov?

Honest to god hockey stick growth Can someone explain this?

Great definition of enterprise software: With "enterprise" software, you can often get away with a clunky program, because the people who are using it have all been trained on what…

At first glance i thought this was about VIM magic... http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/pattern.html#/magic

I would rather be outside, away from my computer, participating in the community that's around me. nothing beats human contact.

yup, big changes: create a company blog, mimic your competitors.

can someone explain this one to me... i just don't get it. "A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more…

A related issue to syntax is consistent naming, especially in the core API of a language. Java for example has _relatively_ consistent naming for methods, whereas i find the core R…

exercise is a great source of energy and i've found it also decreases appetite. I didn't feel the benefits until after a few weeks of a regular exercise schedule; during the initia…

he _nails_ javascript (referred to as ES in quote): Can we please finally just accept that ES is much more than just a browser extensibility tool? For most developers, this is thei…

no, i don't _really_ know the platform or langauge (unix/c)..

I'm 1/4th of the way through this article and confused already... Steve writes: I never managed to use XEmacs for very long, because it crashed a lot but then XEmacs doesn't crash …

> so only download it if you need it > This dataset may be removed in the next week or so the latter cancels the former.

> All this ridiculous programmer-celebrity blogging echo-chamber bullshit results in very little software being built or how about, "blogging results in very little software being …

unless you just want to _quickly_ package some files, use tar, skip the compression.

no because i don't know how to pronounce 'xobni'

yawn

I'm in the same boat, right now working towards calculus, running through an algebra review. The big problem I have with some of the "classic" texts (and wikipedia/mathworld) is th…