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Sounds a lot like censorship to me. It's discrimination at the very least.

Yeah I agree with this. From a standpoint of access to the minds of more human beings you can’t justify Esperanto when there are things like Spanish and Mandarin you could learn. L…

The Internet broke the whole idea of charging for a digital copy of something. We’re seeing a struggle of powers as old power tries to cling on to the idea of charging people for d…

Talk about this kind of journalism out of context (why you don’t trust a particular study, for instance) and you’ll be called a quack or conspiracy theorist.

2. Identify and pursue collaborative opportunities

Number of things written in a language isn’t really a good measure for its quality. There was a time when most things were written in COBOL or assembly. I think the main reason peo…

What’s wrong with OCaml?

Perhaps we could use a similar law for software that says you have to opt-in for that. If you try to install Adobe Reader on a Windows PC, for instance, you have to untick to insta…

I’m really interested to know if that would stand up in court

Thank you

People still care about this? I thought JS was just an accepted requirement of browsing the web these days.

Out of interest how does your wiki integrate with your workflow? Or, in other words, what do you use it for?

Yep same here. org-mode FTW! You can use it as a personal wiki only able to keep all your data in plain text: no web server or database required. I still use filesystem as my prima…

> Since "$" is used by CSS preprocessors for variables that work in a different way A complete perversion of priorities. CSS generator languages change and go in and out of fashion…

Firefox has too many bugs and when you file them they don‘t get fixed very quickly at all. That’s why it isn’t my primary browser. Maybe something about that should be in this docu…

I like this post for many reasons. One of them is introducing me to the word retrogrouch

Are you a good programmer in imperative languages only by any chance?