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Please delete my account.

Does it matter?

I dont see a "delete my account" button anywhere. If such an option does exist, shouldnt the link be more upfront? If it doesnt exist .. why not?

1. Walk. A lot. 2. Balanced diet.

I know of 2 statically typed languages on the JVM : Java and Scala. Any other interesting languages on the JVM which are more or less stable enough to use? I already know a lot of …

Precocity is overrated. To me, believing that genius is decided at age 0/5/10 whatever means that you are just rationalizing not working hard enough with "I am not a genius. I will…

If you are self-learning, then wikipedia is not a good way to do learn computer science. Its way better to actually read a good book, think a great deal and read/write code when ap…

I have read a bit about stackless. Neat implementation but it still suffers from GIL? You can launch thousands of microthreads but apparently they still run on single core?

Hmm is poking around the AST necessary? What about looking at the bytecode instead?

If you were to add some parallel language constructs to Python or Ruby or , what would you add? Lets assume you are only allowed to add 1 or 2 constructs so you dont go changing th…

Well there are more problems than pointed out in the blog. Many of the "problems" cited are actually just effects of the real problems. Corporates not upgrading and OEMs offering X…

Lately PG essays have become more literary/poetic than before. I do not somehow identify with these later essays anymore.

Is there any proof for the statements made about left/right brains? Was the prof learned in neuroscience? Or is it just some folk tale stuff?

Mandatory penny arcade link : http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

Well can you give more info about these ports? Sounds like you want to do interprocess communication of some kind with the JVM? 1. How exactly would you setup the JVM? Will you nee…

Erlang's fast? Compared to what? Scala is usually about as fast as Java. Not trolling. Genuinely curious.

You forgot to mention Turing :) Turing doesnt get much space in school textbooks. And von Neumann too despite being one of the giants of mathematics in 20th century.

As it happens, he only knows drums and sucks pretty bad at guitar and singing.

I designed my own rockstar in rock-band. Do I qualify?

Hmm .. is it really accurate to say he is testing "Einstein's theories"?

Well everything "social" certainly has a very large mindshare and buzzshare nowadays. This is due to very nature of social apps and also due to the fact "social" apps are relativel…