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If using Firefox, I'm very happy using "Auto Tab Discard". It does what you want.

Mind that Dante invented the language that italians speak. That is, he encoded and merged vulgar latin as had evolved in contact with the laguages of the northern invading tribes t…

Sigh ThomPete, where do you live? The Hamptons? Really, you need to actually go out and meet the world around you. It isn't all wine and roses I assure you, but it is better than l…

Hmmm... Very uninformed of you. Just walk into an alley at night in Manhattan or Chicago or Boston or Los Angeles or (surprise!) San Franciso and you'll know... Seriously, read the…

Coming from the Artifex people, I suspect MuJS will be used by MuPDF to implement PDF embedded JavaScript forms.

Better formatted version of the blog post: http://raganwald.com/2014/12/20/why-why-functional-programmi... The original paper by John Huges mentioned in the posting: Internet Archi…

Love the reference, but I'm sure all young phillistines that hang out in HN have missed it completely. :-( You have my upvote. Time to die.

Eww! I find this copy far more readable: https://web.archive.org/web/20130728075247/http://mywiki.woo...

Hmm... There is a basic misuse of terms here. The author uses the term "distributing applications" but he is actually talking about application deployment . Oh well, language evolv…

I agree. And I think that FreeBSD and DragonFly stand over the rest in this respect, both have incredible technology in their guts. Obviously OpenBSD has done wonders teaching peop…

"GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix. We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience with other operating systems. …

Sigh This just goes to show what kind of damage people with little knowledge and big egos can do. Ever read about Dunning-Kruger Syndrome folks? Now you are witnessing a typical ex…

No. The GPL is about the users . It empowers those who use the software to have access to the source and in case they are so inclined (say, the developers are a bunch of tools that…

I'm glad to see that gnuplot has come a long way since the last time I tried to create publication quality plots with it and ran away in horror to fall in the arms of the usual com…

Fact is that Oracle bought Sun to have control of Java. As many know, all the middleware and development tools that Oracle sells for its database are written in Java. They even tri…