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... Well, hopefully that isn't the only way to turn the lights on and off.

... By putting your finger on the active stuff? It's designed for a mouse, where there are normally actions taken after moving the pointer. If there's no continuous UI presence on …

Oops, clicked by accident. Then typed.

I, for one, welcome our new algal overlords.

All your meme are belong to us.

I wasn't aware I need sarcasm tags here. Sorry.

I'll still argue that people having jobs isn't, and wasn't, what holds "the framework of society" together.

> The first sign of trouble is the sheer weight of CLTL. Was this simply an issue of trying to put (what should have been?) library functionality into the language? I've never been…

I'm a dead-tree fanatic, but I've also found that it's the blog entries (when available) regarding functionality that do more digging than a book (usually) has the time for. A blog…

I can't believe any of my software is slow with modern CPUs.

I'm not sure I'd lump Objective-C in with C++ :/ C# and VB run an awful lot of Windows software, too.

> It helps keep the framework of society together. A joke, yes?

> People with lots of years in one field don't have the courage/curiosity to learn something new. Or they may enjoy their field, or they learn new things and apply them in their fi…

> I would recommend starting to dabble with a smaller language first. Something like Python or Ruby would be an excellent place to start. While I'd also recommend starting with som…

They started earlier; that's not what I would consider the normal definition of "outlive".

Go outside? The human mind works well in 45-minute intervals (obviously this isn't always practical, but even working on something related-but-easier for 10-15 minutes between two …

I have some of those between by igneous and metamorphics.

No, I brush my teeth every day because it's a relatively low price to pay for the health of my teeth in case I am alive tomorrow.