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It's called "Vulture's Eye" these days and I think it's still in development... http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture

I think you can be polite and terse, friend.

You mean when it wasn't up to your standard? The total number of upvotes on an article determines what the wider HN community thinks of it.

On the other hand (and I'm slightly playing Devil's advocate here), books and other physical media go out of print eventually. It can become difficult to find a copy of some archai…

This is not bloat, it's flexibility. Emacs does not come with a lot of features built in, it comes with lots of loadable modules. If you don't need them then don't load them. The n…

I'm asking a different question. Rendering a page as a semantically structured document won't remove the ability to globally disable a feature. (In fact, I would argue that it woul…

Why not stop rendering HN pages in tables with inline formatting and render the page as a semantically structured document with a default style sheet. This will allow others to com…

Actually, I'm wondering what Haskell has to do with any of this at all. You're comparing the size of the current incarnation of a fairly modern functional programming runtime with …

1990? I think the issue of mutability in OOP vs FP pre-dates that.

Mutable objects are there so that you don't have to create new instances whenever a field changes. The danger of shared mutable objects is that the ground can change beneath your f…

This is probably aimed at the subset of HN readers that haven't quite made it yet.

Freetard, iFag, luser, Microdroid, B1ff, Pointy haired, Marketroid. The 'us and them' mentality exists across many boundaries and I don't think it's going away any time soon. Most …

I'm sorry, I misunderstood the situation you described.

Testing a DB connection sounds more like integration than unit testing. Mocks are used to fake things that add significant overhead but no value. If you have a suite of 1000 unit t…

So, maybe IE isn't a great browser, but it still has actual people working on it. I bet at least one person on the IE team uses Firefox or Chrome in the office for regular browsing…

I'm afraid I can't personally provide a detailed run down - I played the game for about 6 months near the end of university and after that I never really found enough free time to …

I just realised I screwed up the second link - should have been: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8132547.stm

You mean like Eve Online? :-) http://www.eveonline.com/ Actually, this response is directed towards shogunmike also. Just in case you haven't heard of Eve, it's a spaced themed MMO…

2) the ``This sucks'' response lets you vent anger. Now there are two conflicting theories about controlling strong emotions... ;-) I realise that this is intended for humour, but …

I would say a lot of Brits really do enjoy talking to people, not as an obligation of 'politeness'. The culture of politeness is more likely to be a cause than a symptom. (Speaking…

DMs and @mentions will now be redirected to the new account until the original user is able to send the change of username notification. There's now a chance, however slim, that a …

It's certainly a lot cheaper than ~$3000 /year (MSDN?), or ~$4000 /year (IBM?) or ~$3600 /year (Lispworks?). In the grand scheme of things, Apple's tools and developer membership s…

Apple are really driving me to put Linux on both my machines. I'm not happy about that, but it's seems ever more likely since Linux is getting a lot more usable and the Apple tax i…