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I believe that doublely linked lists are described by Knuth in the Art of Computer Programming volume (something). My recollection is that it may have been in a problem or note. Th…

nailed it. period

You guys seem to be missing the real point I was trying to make here. We are in a Not Enough Programmers Boom and it will be followed by a deflations in about 4 or 5 years. I taugh…

Every field has stars and 'everybody else'. Physicians know who to send send their family members to. Quality chef's command more respect and make higher quality food. etc. I speak…

Try to find out what the licensing is for Creative Cloud. I spent a couple of hours on their help forum - which is manned (and womanned) by frustrated users and some adobe employee…

This should shift the s/w outsourcing edge away from India. I think the rest of the world should consider this good news and encourage them to find more creative ways to 'protect' …

This is a new iTunes app store requirement. Gmail won't help

just the 'obvious' - look into stripe.com & moneybookers. Don't really know if either will help but stripe is aimed at developers & moneybookers is in Europe, so they probably actu…

Apple now wants 3 stupid security questions and a super secret 'recovery' email address - which can't be my real email address because that's my Apple ID. Who are the jerks who mak…

Fortran in '70 - so 40+. It's been continuous since then

I use TexMate for Rails; emacs for Lisp & other stuff; and vi for quick git edits and things like that (also remote edits)