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One of my own favorite explanations of meter in English is Timothy Steele's All the Fun's in How you Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification [0]. I'd be interested i…

I agree. It is one of my favorite poems. There are also very good audio book recordings avaialable.

I've been programming for a long time and had to learn R a few years back for a series of projects. The documentation and community seemed to me, as a newcomer, to be very focused …

In case you are a casual observer or are new to Scheme and are wondering why this might be particularly important to the language, wikipedia explains: "The R6RS standard has caused…

"The reason why ... [SQLite] needed to exist ... The genesis story?" Richard summarizes the development history. 20:39 to 27:20 "Why is SQLite so ubiquitous?" "Its goal is that it …

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I have had the same experience after deleting my account several years ago (for different reasons). I do keep wondering if it will pop up as an issue, so I'm very curious about oth…

Yes, I agree. The history of philosophy is an important part of philosophy, not all of philosophy. I studied the subject nearly 30 years ago and can only recall the history courses…

And also why do some people enjoy things that other people don't approve of?

Agreed, andr, that the number of new good talks can continue to increase. This is an interesting story and relates to a variety of other organizations seeking to scale quickly, whe…

As the number of conferences and speakers grows, are you concerned that the Law of Large Numbers will exact its toll and make the sample of speakers more typical of the population …

I do share your sentiment! The shorter "MyMail" makes the same point without needing the profanity, and your more emphatic name would then be available for the most desirable MyMai…

Answering "In the context of an interview, [I get] frustrated because my default response to not knowing the answer to a question ... is to go out and research the problem [and I c…

If the motive is laziness or the objective is to trick or intimidate a candidate, then I agree that the method deserves scorn. But I disagree with your position the technique is ne…

That's a more detailed video about the project. The shorter video from PopularMechanics is here: http://bcove.me/pbzl94cm

Don't miss the impressive video.

One might charitably speculate that these are organizational challenges related to growing and being part of Salesforce.com. Things that were simple for a small, dynamic company ca…

I can't help but wonder if this kind of surreptitious change to the platform might in any way be connected to Byron Sebastian's sudden resignation last September from Salesforce. I…

I have had similar periods of time in my own life, but even these have begun to fade over many years. Luckily, there are plenty of techniques to avoid this and many are not new. E.…