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Would someone involved in the art world please comment. I always thought seeing a painting in person would be crucial to buying art (if you're in the really high end). There's more…

Bullshit. Smith is way less common of a family name in English than Kim is in Korean.

Everyone who studies that sort of thing has told me that viewing ancient roman sexuality through a homosexual vs heterosexual lens is not quite right. You need to look at it more t…

Thanks for the reply. Look forward to the next post. I guess I prefer to be bogged down, or at least have the ability to go deeper off some tangent and then be able to return to th…

I'm not being facetious. I don't know anything about the implementation of the JVM or its byte-code, and was hoping to learn a bit. But... 1. How was I supposed to know 0x19 was th…

If you think you can replace the Office Suite with Google docs, then you don't know how the other half lives. It just wouldn't work for people whose primary programming and analysi…

The first person to comment sets the narrative.

"Listen to yourself, constantly improve and have a thirst for knowledge..." is pretty general advice. He explicitly says it's not specific to being a developer. I don't think, "con…

(define compose (f g) (lambda (x) (f (g x)))) What if f is a function of n-arity (define compose (f g) (lambda (x) (f . (g x)))) If g is n-arity (define compose (f g) (lambda (x) (…

Proposal for the next release: Any code that gives a warning should either a) Print so many hail marys or b) Be half deleted

Yes, a lot of people throughout the world are working on write once run everywhere and they're the Java, Go, Python, Ruby, Lua... language developers. And I have to imagine that wh…