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Is this healthy?

I never said Stack Exchange websites were “perfect” for anything. I’ve just been using it today and I hate it. Stack Exchange websites use competition to achieve answers to questio…

You obviously don’t socialize with non-programmers very much

Yeah. I want to learn Racket and my Haskell is very slowly advancing so I’m definitely down with Lisps etc.

Thanks for the useful reply. I’m giving MailMate some serious consideration depending on whether the smart mailboxes feature can distinguish between threads I’m involved in and thr…

I know there are a lot of obvious answers to this question but so far I don’t like any of them. The biggest seems to be Stack Exchange: don’t like that because it’s totalitarian an…

Oh yeah, this is not a book to use for learning Haskell. I personally recommend Graham Hutton’s Programming in Haskell or Real World Haskell if you want to learn Haskell. Hutton’s …

The first part is all about logic and it tells you everything you need to know. You have to approach it like reading a big academic paper though. It’s not like you’ll be flipping t…

The absence of that executable flag does nothing to protect you from using an existing executable and some data such as an interpreter and source code.

That advice creates startups that are more likely to work, yes, but also seriously narrows the range of different startups likely to occur. You’re optimizing for reliability—not su…

Except the overall effect of this startup will be the opposite of what you just describe. Prim isn’t creating more dirty laundry, it’s consolidating the laundry jobs into batches t…

Nah, switch to DuckDuckGo and Firefox please :)

Aren’t we on IE 10 now? Why would you upgrade to IE7?

Don’t handicapped and retarded me pretty much the same thing? Why does one offend and you use the other freely?

I don’t really understand what he means by the POV quote. Could you explain it?

> There's no legal obligation to do that, so why should they? Because of morals? Are your morals demonstrably more correct than theirs? The people get the government they deserve. …

What’s LO?

I think people are going to try to avoid the tester experiencing errors. Why would anybody write something badly if it’s just going to come back to them in a couple of hours as wro…

I have no objection to that. I just don’t want those words written by people to make it sound like the application is a person. The app can talk about itself doing things (it does …

Good UI design is all about effective communication. If you have a UI that is pretending to be something it isn’t (a person) then it is basically lying to you. That’s hardly good c…

But versions of Windows before 95 didn‘t have the prefix. In Windows 3.1 it was just Program Manager, Write, Paintbrush, File Manager etc. So they took a step backwards in 95. It t…

I think this is a bad idea on so many levels. But all those aside, just think of all the other research that’s not getting funded because of these assholes.

> We should all do whatever the fuck we want, until we die. Yeah but we’re not allowed to. Most employers will demands you show up for 40 hours a week and then frown at you or, at …