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Still, do you want to give money to these wankers?

Is lowering ever as dramatic as flooding?

> Thanks to these diets, North Korean soldiers are said to be several inches shorter than their South Korean counterparts If people join after high-school, how does that work?

If somebody put something online fifteen years ago, they might not care about it anymore, but I might. With the current web, I can mirror that content by downloading it and putting…

(OK, I said billions. Thousands will do.)

Digital electronics means thinking of a transistor as a switch. It's got three terminals, if there's a positive voltage on the control terminal then the other two are connected and…

> R3000 sold extremely well (over 1 million units were produced). Although I know it's not directly comparable, I was at an ST event recently, and the representative said they were…

Hey, hang in there, it's only two more years till you hit your hexadecimal twenties, which is where the real party is!

In MUMPS, only the first two characters of function names are significant.

The Danish ministry for Finance has an official macroeconomic model that is used to evaluate policies. To the best of my knowledge, it includes a small (I think fixed) amount of st…

We recently had a parliamentary election here in Denmark, and economic models featured rather prominently as arguments on both sides. One particular party would consistently refer …

I think invoking Monsanto falls under Godwin's.

I've got half an hour's walk to work every morning. It's a great way to start the day, especially because the route is through a couple of parks. It clears the mind and wakes me up…

I suppose the main difference is the presence of algebraic data types. But does that even make sense without static typing?

Having worked with Scala a lot recently, I've found that the ability to turn logic issues into type issues is an incredible gain for my productivity. OCaml programmer Yaron Minsky …

> The presence of a type system definitely improves maintainability, however it is only one of many factors. Being C and Haskell both statically typed, are they equally suitable fo…

I imagine "where is my pussy" would get a chuckle out of most anglophones today, too...

The 74-series is not just plain gates, there are multiplexers, latches, counters, adders, and even complete ALUs.

Haiku does not contain any code from BeOS, except the filemanager and launcher, which were open souced by Be before they folded. It is a complete rewrite, done by volunteers.

Thank you for your effort.

It's not that simple I don't think. How much of my private information, as kept by government or private organizations, are stored in Oracle databases that are less secure because …