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They are the Roland Piquepaille of... something.

I don't see how it could do anything but complicate it.

Yep, I have an Aeron at work and an $80 (from Sam's Club) "Office Star Matrex Meshback" or something goofy name like that at home. I use both regularly and have no preference betwe…

Javascript?

Careful or we'll never have another Einstein.

Please link to a single "conservative" investment with an 8% yield.

Demonstrate how it is different from a raffle.

>That's "evil" somehow? The farmer is farms land stolen from Native Americans. If we go by the odds it isn't some farmer taking out a small loan at Wells Fargo, most wheat is grown…

He didn't ask to learn programming, he asked to learn CS. He isn't getting a PhD in discrete math, he is reading a discrete math book, which is a bare minimum for learning CS.

Am I reading Slashdot?

more on "!": Run the given cmd/pipeline, and put it's output at the current cursor location: :r ! Filter the whole buffer through the given cmd/pipeline: :%! Filter a visual select…

When a company engages in systemic risk, it discounts that risk by the amount of the system the company doesn't occupy (e.g. if Goldman does something that will create a 10% chance…

Not true in the United States; we've had an alternate minimum income for quite a while.

>the company used a proprietary programming language and involved lots of domain specific knowledge FogBugz developer?

Writing Lisp without an even more IDE-like feature, macro-expansion, would be almost as painful.

Funny, most programers who make heavy use of macros heavily rely on IDE-like features such as macro-expansion.

regular strings now use more than 8 bits per char.

>An unappreciated miracle of our world is how rare shortages are among truly free-market goods. Name some (specifically, name some in the United States).

Because having higher I.Q.'s via Iodine couldn't possibly allow them to get more doctors per capita and reduce pain and suffering that way. Let me guess, you didn't get much Iodine…

>No, it did apply to companies too: larger commercial operations tended to be more successful than small ones. How are you defining success? How well the company did per-capita (pe…

>I think success at MIT would be that a student found the coursework challenging, opportunities plentiful, and made lots of smart friends, and not a potential salary or prestige. A…

not if the anchor doesn't hit the floor because the rope isn't long enough.

At what local vapor-pressure?

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

Then shouldn't the government just invest in fundamental battery tech, not car-implementation that will never go anywhere without improvements in that tech?