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The population bomb has already been reached. 7 billion is way too much. We simply cannot continue to eat cows at that rate. Worse: if we want to stay at 7 billion the "poor" count…

Totally different experience here. I've written more than ten books and I'm coding nearly full time. Keyswitch matters a lot . I've tried Cherry MXes, ALPS and I've used good old I…

The reason JavaScript is dog slow is single-threading. That's quite a huge handicap on today's hardware and it's only gonna get worse and worse until JavaScript engines becomes mul…

That dude was already trolling Usenet's comp.lang.java.* newgroups back in the days... And I hated the dude back then. But now to be honest he's obvioulsy more experienced and alth…

> How do you know it can't be reversed easily? It is impossible to reverse because information is lost. There's an infinite number of "plain text" leading to a same hash. If you co…

Congratulations and thank you Linus. Thank you so much. As Linus said (paraphrasing): "I realized that in two weeks I could code something better than any single VCS out there" . L…

I used to compete in TC many years ago... Back in 2005 or so. I was a high-ranked "yellow" coder in division one. I never made it to red. It's a humbling experience: some of the to…

NVidia being a "distant fourth" as TFA mentions is directly linked to their lame behavior since basically forever with Linux. As Linus recently said in a talk at Aalto uni, NVidia …

People still complain about how complicated it is to match parentheses and other non-sense like that. Truth is things like Emacs' paredit are the nuts. Honestly you have to go out …

Clojure puts the emphasis on functional programming and the context should hardly ever be "global". So I don't think it would make much sense: the context is the sexp you're curren…

"...encountering code like this is a nightmare." Well... "Code like this" and "micro-optimization" are basically what powers the 900 000 Linux / Android smartphones sold daily and …

Most non-vim / non-Emacs users are actually doing post-fact rationalization: you never hear, say "Text editor Blub is faster to edit text than Emacs/vim" . What you hear them say i…

"The FizzBuzz syndrome is very real..." Yes it is. I think part of the problem is that during the interview and interviewers themselves can answer questions like: "How would you in…

"...containing a database name that begins with '-'..." And some people are laughing at me when I establish guidelines mandating (and enforcing in build scripts) very script rules …

"I'd personally like to do a Paul Krugman generator. But I don't have the CPU power to crank out that level of bullshit." You made my day, nearly spilled my coffee ; ) It's easy: n…

They suck at JS but... Modifying what is served to users and the fact that they ISPs can technically enforce things such as x-strikes means that we're just that close to disrupting…

Definitely... Usenet rocked and there's probably still more knowledge on Usenet than, say, on all the StackExchange sites taken together. I take the Usenet trolls everyday over the…

"When you are intellectually advanced to the point where sexist jokes simply make you want to rip out the throat of the party saying them " If you're intellectually advanced you do…

I'm using IntelliJ IDEA on Linux since version 4 or so (we're now at version 12). And I agree with you but ... The trick is to use a pixel perfect font with no anti-aliasing at all…

Excellent! The $6 / set for the first run, if he sells all his sets , is precisely what I just had computed. (I just love the article by the way). But I've go not idea how he arriv…

"I would love for anyone else reading this to add their own ideas on how they think Microsoft can help the Open Source Community." I'll bite: they could stop funding (either offici…

Regarding the fact that you can edit blogs after the fact, he writes: "...that's culturally weird, and feels dishonest to me" (btw I just love Steve Yegge. Guys like him and pg bro…

"You can't really have a totally safe systems programming language (correct me if I'm wrong here)." It bears repeating because most people are totally unaware of this but you can u…

No latter than yesterday I did a search and replace in Emacs doing Lisp substitution to create the replacement string. Actually it was better than that: I did record a macro who sw…

"There was no Stack Overflow..." I'm honestly very glad SO didn't exist when I was learning... SO needs to taken with a gigantic grain of salt: answers aren't interesting. They're …