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Indeed. It kind of read like Hunting of the Snark. "The wikifiddler drew his wikivorpal sword and slayed the terrible wikibeast"

I can't speak for all emacs users, but I wouldn't be caught dead using an "IDE" IDE ostensibly stands for "integrated development environment." AFAIK, not a single IDE is as integr…

http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ Opera has an entire tutorial on ratless browsing.

The Bush one is in fact a bug, described pretty well here: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/07/11/662342.aspx The second? No clue.

I haven't used Windows in years. Does anyone know if these http://ishmeet.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/3-wicked-microsoft-b... still exist? The =rand(200, 99) one looks interesting.

"NOTE: Depending on your query, it may take several minutes to return the results of your query to the worksheet." First thought: this has got to be a parody. Second thought: Oh Ct…

"If you can't make the effort to make your post understandable to someone not in your domain, why should I assume you're saying something worth reading?" He assumed the domain of p…

I don't get why this is on HN. We have methods to kill Paula Beans in their tracks. Liberal arts does not. Is this anything new?

The first programmer was a woman. Perhaps a better checklist would be "actual reasons why the average human, without regard to gender, does not enter technical fields"

That, or you got a wife. Wives seem remarkably efficient at curbing our deepest insanities.

What is the beautiful, interesting, suspenseful, fun code that you would rather curl up to read with a cup of coffee than most any other writing? What is your "nightstand" code?

This is not quite what you want, but there are quite a few 4D puzzles. iirc, Scott Kim, who did many of the illustrations for Douglas Hofstadter, wrote a paper presenting an optica…

Not a novel, or a single book, but I love Richard Feynman's descriptions of Los Alamos. I can read his accounts of mental arithmetic battles with Bohr, safecracking, the programmin…

Consider Shockley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley ). Brilliant, amazingly productive, and possibly the biggest and most abrasive all-around asshole since Newton. In…

I just got a horrible mental image of someone using M-x doctor to practice smalltalk.

I'm a hermit, similarly incapable of smalltalk. I long ago discovered that no one really likes small talk. It's the prelude to a real conversation; that's the only reason people en…

This, combined with the report about a robot that can forage for biomass ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614006 ), means we're that much closer to building a race of cybernet…

One of my VLSI friends lamented about his Gen Ed requirements: "They want me to be a "well-rounded" engineer. Well, I know vector calculus, finite algebra, compiler theory, and eno…

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-introduction-to-algorithms-... is a very good site, with videos of MIT lectures. http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/ is another grea…

It's all fun and games till someone accidentally the whole ~

This gave me a visceral pang of disgust.