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This is the future of education. Stanford is just the tip of the iceberg.

As a practical matter, this would require the enforcement agency to publish the correct price for every asset regulated. Publishing a formula for this calculation wouldn't be good …

This is exactly what I want to know. What were the numbers?

Wow! Here today, gone tomorrow. Good call Kyro!

All that talk of "doubling the size of its customer service staff" sounds good, but it doesn't mention numbers. Did they go from 1 to 2? 100 to 200? When they say they will be "cre…

I'm sorry, but this doesn't address what I said. I know the lisp community stands behind Edi Weitz and I respect him, but compared to Python's "Batteries Included" or Perl's standa…

Since you are hung up on "objective analysis," what objective evidence do you have that this claim is true? In any case, here is an objective problem: Common Lisp does not include …

I can't tell if this is serious or not. Either way, it seems like we all benefit from devices that make doctors more effective.

I think you should decide what you hope to accomplish. However, on a window's machine, there is small basic: http://smallbasic.com/ It's windows, it's powerful, it's simple, and it…

The first edition of the OED took about 70 years (starting in the mid 1800's) if I recall. Newer editions are still being edited.

It doesn't have to be direct conflict. The margins for survival are very slim. Out-competing through more effective hunting and gathering would make a huge difference.

If only you could outsource this job to India...

This isn't just a problem with online communities either. True communities are a mess.

Climate Science isn't a science. For science to be science, you have to control for variables. When you can't--like with climate studies--you rely on intuition instead. That's a so…

Check out Mint Linux. It's built on top of Ubuntu but much better.

If it wasn't for Mint Linux standing on top of Ubuntu standing on top of Debian with Debian's apt-get repository, I probably would have switched to Mac. Interestingly, most of my f…

Not to mention the fact that most times, it's easier to go through the line with a check-out person running the register. Not only do they do the work, but the self check-out lines…

Hopefully this will also clue in some developers to cool projects that they can contribute to.

Accelerated C++ by Koenig and Moo

So then what's your take on coding in Ada compared to other languages?

I couldn't agree more. The last time I went to the movies, it felt like such a rip off that I vowed never to return. Questions: 1) How long are advertisements anymore? It felt like…

I doubt people will argue that these features are useful, but they do increase Python's overall complexity by adding to the sum total one must learn to grok python. There's a dange…

Strange as it sounds, lots of incoming freshman have never had to figure out anything before. Their "education" has consisted of nothing but regurgitating standardized lessons for …

Thank you. This is the kind of response I was hoping to see. I'm not qualified to comment at all on Clojure, but I was interested to see what people thought who were part of this c…