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> The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. Eh? Every expert I've heard lately is fearful we're he…

I do like the square brackets. They don't require holding down shift. And when you're writing the next killer app, and in the process, end up setting the world record for the longe…

The good XKCDs deserve karma. Many of them are rather dull comics, but today's is pretty golden.

A local lisp implementation in my community saved an entire boatful of drowning puppies! Lisp is awesome!

What the fuck is with you people? 60 responses and most of theme seem to be arguing about Steve's content instead of his average blog length. After all, it's Yegge we're talking ab…

A girl on the Internet? http://xkcd.com/322/

The answer is simple: http://www.roflcat.com/images/cats/270915355_c8b9ae48e6.jpg Edumacation Learn me a book

I just want to point out an issue with a small point Paul brings up, and that issue is how Karma works on YC versus Reddit. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but there i…

Delicious Cake. I must eat it.

The best way to learn Haskell is a combination of #haskell on irc.freenode.net and the Haskell wikibook (incomplete and often flaky, but up until the beginning of the Advanced sect…

A scheme isn't a scheme without continuations. It's a shame they're such a pain in the ass to implement in platforms w/o gotos or TCO.

This guy's "rants" are aptly named. He vents his frustration the way I'm sure most of us do after a bad day at work: incoherently and unconvincingly. I've long wondered whether or …

A very good point. At the end of the day, Java 1.5 is still 98% as good as the latest release. And a language without closures (while certainly frustrating if you've been pampered)…

I visited #lisp only a handful of times, but the one time I tried asking a question, I received a flamebath along with my answer. If newcomers step on your toes, channel regulars s…

I agree. Math is extremely subtle. And despite its nature as the most exacting and rigorous of sciences, the notation used in mathematics is anything but. Each author uses their ow…