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It gave me the punchline "We'll be back after a word from our sponsors."

My frustration is that you can't pass foo as an argument to another function.

>[In Ruby] There is good support for functional programming with first-class functions, anonymous functions, and closures. This seems like a blatantly false claim to me since as a …

The article seems to be based on an 1850 report initiated by Patrick Brontë. It's available online: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/sanitary-report-on-hawort...

My experience has been very positive. I recently noticed that Firefox had become slightly slow to recover my session at start-up. I investigated and found I had over 1800 tabs open…

The Ashton Manual is good resource, but the state of the art taper method as far as I know is the liquid titration (via suspension, not solution) micro-taper. See, e.g., https://ww…

Oops. I have linked the original here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239176 . Apparently I can't delete this post.

When the creation and representation of crappy products entails fraud or other crimes the result would actually include criminal prosecutions by the DOJ (in a world where the DOJ w…

I'll take a wild guess that he is alleging that Eric Holder's failure to prosecute any of the CEOs of the financial institutions that played a critical role in the financial crisis…