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It certainly is - but with a much narrower intended scope of use. It's really not intended as a data transport mechanism for example. It's also homologous with JSON, XML is more fl…

You know what, could be "Aitch Fon" as well (the 5 starts with F, right?)

I've been awkwardly saying "Aitch Five Oh En" in my head, but my work colleague says "Aitch Son", which even though it's a 5 and not an S sort of makes sense given the relationship…

But didn't most writing systems evolve from accounting systems?

The majority of people have a basic need to work in some form or another, regardless of compensation.

72k posts could be just a handful of active accounts. My own has 15k or so posts and I often don't touch it for weeks at a time.

You're wrong. A lambda can have a body. Compiles and executes: new Func (() => { var foo = "bar"; return foo; })();

new Func (()=>"foo")(); (function(){return "foo";})(); Oh look - exactly the same number of characters. How awful.

It's obnoxious - and so is your manner of speaking to people.

Suspect it's http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results edit: or the same source as huffpost at least

A map: http://imgur.com/GDJPL

I'm running a program to map it right now

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4542347

I'm reading Speaker for the Dead on a real, physical book at the moment, after buying and reading Ender's Game on Kindle. Why? Because Amazon won't sell me the Speaker ebook in my …

Not linked to, but https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644104

http://imgur.com/dFXFa There is a grey line in frames 1 and 3 but not in 2.

Firefox 14.0.1, Windows 7 x64. Grey line is visible for a split second as page loads then disappears. EDIT: well now this is bizarre - it disappears and reappears as I scroll.

Because going to a private school gives your children the opportunity to network with the children of other wealthy people.

An interesting viewpoint, although I think the genetic evidence goes against it: http://newguinea-singing-dog-conservation.org/Tidbits/Origin...

I thought the same until I saw that it was a research product/experiment. I think that makes it interesting and harmless rather than sad and misguided.

I manage a repo that has the bare bones of a roguelike in many languages. It's a little more involved than a Hello World in that it needs to handle input, output, state etc. I coul…

It's a computer in any sense of the word. The only difference between the Analytical Engine and what you call an "actual computer" is speed. It had selection, iteration and sequenc…