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I disagree. The fact is that Trump convinced a lot of people in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to vote for him in what Democrats thought was their "firewall". Firewall appea…

The Federalist Papers (and the Anti-Federalist Papers for that matter) were public attempts to persuade people it's true. At the time they were aimed at the people of New York on t…

The electoral college isn't a bug, it's a design feature. Cf The Federalist Papers. A fundamental problem for democracy is how to keep it from degenerating into mob rule. The EC is…

It's funny, we expect "undo" features in our applications these days, why shouldn't the OS and indeed the entire machine's state be treated the same way? I used to think that virtu…

I too stopped using 'jj' because of the short delay. FWIW I've found ';l' to work well as a replacement. (For a trial period I had them both mapped to in my vimrc file.) ';l' seems…

As I mentioned in another reply here, I'd suggest you ignore the siren call of "most recent" and just pretend it's five years ago. Use the Squeak by Example book with it's associat…

Some of the cool kids at Smalltalk High forked Squeak to create Pharo back in 2008 and that's where a lot of the recent developer energy has gone. But rapid development has its cos…

Well, it's restricted to educational uses, so I don't anticipate a lot of pressure from Indian textbook authors on this one. The specific case seems to stem from professors suggest…

One point worth noting on this new release: there's finally an up-to-date official Windows package.

No other text editor has as many developers working on plugins than VIM. Virtually anything that exists in another text editor which isn’t mouse driven has some very popular, very …

This is one of those historic artifacts, like the Mother of All Demos, that really brings home the sense of possibilities that people had for computers a couple of generations back…

In chess below the master level tactics will dominate. How do you get really good at tactics? Not just by playing lots of chess, but by consistently devoting effort to studying tac…

Harvey is really a force for good when it comes to making programming and computer science topics accessible to more people. In addition to SICP and SNAP work, he was also a force …

Well, by that logic the record studios were proxies for musicians. Sorry, not buying that argument. If I were Stross I'd certainly be peeved at the loss of access to customers and,…

I was nodding in agreement right up until the point he showed charts of 17 "first-world" nations and started torturing data: In terms of pretty much any metric you'd care to name —…

The "purpose" of the opening is to get yourself into the sort of middlegame position you like to play. (Some players love having white against a French Defense, for example, while …

1) Android is a Linux, it's just not marketed as such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#... 2) If you're someone like me who drops in to distrowatch.com …

As has been pointed out, you've got the sequence reversed. Raskin was on the original Macintosh team first. His ideas for the project included keeping the cost down. Things like us…

>> Dave's writing was all about him. > So what? > ... not everybody saw what he wrote as particularly negative towards Marissa, and many (most) of us got that the real point he was…

The adverse effects of frictionless computing are all around us. Email is the first example that comes to mind. It is simply too easy to send email messages, so we all send too man…

I can't speak to salt, but the classic explanation for sugar and high fructose corn syrup is Robert Lustig's UCSF presentation[0]. Midway through he discusses the differences betwe…

Tiny Core Linuxis still going strong ( http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ ). They're now up to three images, all built on the idea of running out of RAM with a 3.0-era kernel. The Core …

I've always thought it was a nifty chip, but one I couldn't think of an application for. Things like the 18-bit word size can throw some developers off -- the last time I looked at…

First off, beef is indeed awesome and it has given me the incredible intelligence and physical beauty that I so casually display today. Second, more seriously, your response is pol…

"emotional response is illogical" To compound the problem, emotional responses are faster , with rational arguments developed after the fact. The neocortex likes to think it's hot …