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Sadly not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoma

The color red is often associated with bad; needs to stop; wrong. Removal isn't such a big step from there, I think. The opposite probably applies to green.

Best of luck to you today, too.

Ha, fairy nuff. It's what prompts one to have such a day that matters, methinks. ;)

I'm pretty sure that's not even remotely related.

Thank you. :)

I suppose it's an OK sentiment, but I'm not in contact with my parents and on days like these I keep getting reminded of that fact. I was secretly hoping there wouldn't be anything…

I agree that concurrency isn't fundamentally hard, but the reason everyone kind of prefers faster serial execution is because a lot of algorithms (extremely simple example: f^10000…

Okay, but that's not actually an answer to my question. My question basically comes down to this: > Yes, that is intellectually dishonest, which is a huge problem. Scientists have …

So... I know next to nothing about parapsychology itself, but have seen a lot of the drama around it, and I just have to ask: is it not intellectually dishonest to call something t…

I think you accidentally commented in the wrong thread. Gave me a hearty chuckle in this context, though.

Good god, if only mathematics professors would learn this. If I hear the word 'trivial' one more time I swear I'm going to scream.

Except if you post a comment in a dead thread, your account is practically banned from participating again.

I'm not yet sure how to feel about this, but I have one question that remains unanswered: Will this apply to submissions (possibly in the future) as well?

I have two questions. 1. I'm unfamiliar with the term 'unpacking'. Is it any different from pattern matching in, say, Haskell (but perhaps not as feature-rich)? 2. Aren't slices pr…

Even in those extreme cases (which I hope we all agree are the exception rather than the norm), I would still consider putting someone in a few-square-meter box "cruel and unusual …

RWH is a good recommendation, although it contains a rather large number of errors. LYAH is very good for learning the basics, too. But, if you're already a very experienced progra…

Yes. Although I have no experience with Racket (so correct me if I'm wrong), the Lisps are inherently multi-paradigm languages. Haskell, on the other hand, is functional programmin…

Similar issues plague Haskell. A bunch of functions have illogical names, just because that's how they've always been used. And, there's the annoying matter of Applicative not bein…

Forkenheit 451.

This incoherent rant as a response to a single sentence isn't really helping your case. "All those portability claims and that there somehow good: you're just doing things for lowe…

"it will always be a result of human effort and ultimately an expression of human intent" Like babies? (Well, most of the time.)