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Reminds me of this user testing story from the early Macintosh days: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt

How about TeX?

I replaced the one in mine with an Intel card (7260NGW) and it works fine under Linux.

Briggs saw the worst of this during suicide crises on the bridge when drivers passing by would yell out, "Go ahead and jump." Despicable.

The official GNU Emacs Manual is good. I've slowly been working my way through it. It's a free download: http://shop.fsf.org/product/Emacs_Manual_24/

> You don't own yourself. Everything you do is an interaction with the world (including your own body and mind), which belongs to everyone equally. This is an extreme view. How can…

Fundamentally, why shouldn't people have a right to privacy? Are you saying that there isn't any information about yourself that you'd want to keep private? Why are the details of …

> Knuth accused me quite harshly (IMO) to be some kind of Stallman fan talking nonsense about licenses and did not acknowledge the bug. Strange. Knuth appears to be a significant G…

Reminds me of "The Centrifuge Brain Project" http://vimeo.com/58293017

Actually, the one on MELPA appears to be a different implementation. There was some discussion about it on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/21mklt/2048_puzzle_in...

I implement laziness "manually" all the time in Objective-C. For example, imagine something happens which invalidates a property which must be calculated (say, a bounding box for a…

Yep, just like GNU: https://www.gnu.org/pronunciation/pronunciation.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21d1u2/we_were_in_ta...

Sure, but his bitcoins probably aren't just sitting around either. The fear was that he'd be kidnapped/tortured in order to acquire them. If we're allowing for that, it seems like …

Is there a particular reason why he'd be at risk for this versus any other well known wealthy person? Are lottery winners worried about this?

I've never heard of either of them. It's not possible for two people to have the same name?

Singer's book talks about finding and supporting effective charities. Here's one I now support that seems pretty direct: https://www.fistulafoundation.org It also made me rethink w…

"The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" by Peter Singer. After reading this I dramatically increased the amount of money that I donate and began supporting several…

There's often a countdown timer as mentioned in the article. You know exactly how much time you have until it's a solid "Don't Walk". Usually, I will pass several people already in…

He was ticketed for starting during the flashing "Don't Walk" signal. That seems more like a yellow light to me. In other words, there's still plenty of time to cross if you're a f…

I really doubt this will have much effect on any of the competing apps. Brushes was already downloadable for free (with an optional in-app purchase). Many other painting apps of va…