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Because that’s a thing that our leaders now have to promise in the democracies that we’re living in?

Could you please explain the `o//` “convention”?

It also worth noting that the specification’s author also built his company on this single implementation.

Definitely suicide.

”Writing Good”, there, I fixed it for you.

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That means it’s working as intended, right? Ah, the times we live in!

Out of interest, what breaking changes have been introduced to C in C99 and C11 (I’m assuming we’re using C89 as a baseline) beyond changes in corner cases in tokenization due to t…

Couldn’t you just write your “LaTeX Math” for LaTeX instead?

I don’t understand figure 5. The left and right images are not only of code that’s not highlighted and that’s highlighted, it’s for two completely different functions. Of course ey…

”Punkt” means ”point”, as in ”that’s it”. The prices certainly puts everything into question.

It was worse than that. Someone wasn’t worried. Instead of acting, by, say, trying to talk to the kid in the car or perhaps just calling the cops, they “recorded the incident using…

I agree. Sadly, similar services don’t generate results even approaching those of Google Code Search. The interface was also a lot better than that of its competitors. That’s not t…

Nice. A minor nit: it’s “ensure a fair game”, not “insure a fair game”.

I believe that this quote says a lot about what supporters of SOPA believe: > The purpose of this legislation is to target foreign sites that are stealing U.S. property. Classic “u…

It’s fascinating how much of this applies to Ruby as well.

Ah, here’s that “I eschew embedded capital letters in names; to my prose-oriented eyes, they are too awkward to read comfortably. They jangle like bad typography.” comment I’ve bee…

I tend to agree with the idea that Google Circles is broken. The problem is that one also needs the reverse. I, as a content producer, need to be able to specify to those that I’m …

OK, so everyone agrees that it’s less discoverable, but how many actually used the old bar? I have only clicked an item in that bar once. When I realized that it opened a new tab I…

First of all, you should be measuring in points, not pixels. Secondly of all, why set font-size at all? Leave it at what the user has set it to and adapt your layout around the pos…

One of the best books on programming I’ve ever read, and sadly I didn’t read it until recently.