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thank you for this. i've never understood why credit cards are printed w/ spaces between the numbers, presumably to reduce transcription errors, but 99.9% of web forms force you to…

This is a doddle in PostScript. http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/

Think this might make those "Fork me on GitHub" badges a little less popular? I sincerely hope so.

I really hate writing things in reverse, but a decent style in Bash is to put everything in functions, w/ a main() at the top: #! /usr/bin/env bash set -e -u bar='bar' main() { foo…

LISP 1.5 manual (MITPress)

It would be very useful to delineate this list by command type and availability. The ones I wanted to check out (ndiff, rs, iftop, mtr, ...) must be in packages, since they don't r…

So a middle finger gets fewer downvotes than a technical commentary. awesome.

They lost me when they went to 21 bits.

The -3 arg is not available on OS X. Odd, since it's been in BSD Unix since forever. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cal

My favorite example. The chosen answer to the "Where's Waldo?" solution is 7 lines long . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-wal...

I should think OCaml or SML should be added to the mix. Neither has Async built in, but the other points are handled quite well. http://ocaml.org/description.html

Why was I not made aware of this sooner? $10 for 1-10 users? Nice. (also not affiliated)

The design reminds me a bit of my "sunflower" iMac, which was a really nice machine.

dbx is a company and a noise reduction format. It competed w/ Dolby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx_(noise_reduction)

It's been sad to watch Markdown eclipse Textile http://txstyle.org in popularity. Textile provides a more complete mapping to HTML than Markdown, while remaining easy to use. Its p…

Beyond complexity management, breaking a design into many small programs opens it up to a rich set of well-known and proven OS services. Things like hardware memory protection, mul…

Is there any way to view the .textile files rendered properly w/in Github? They are rendering the same as raw for me. Am I missing something?

> Also, I want to know how to make Evernote better! Email me and let me know. I've got a few ideas. What is your email address?

Awesome. Any chance you could update the C compiler to something post-C89?

Robin Williams devotes a chapter of her book, "The PC is not a Typewriter", on the subject. She concurs. http://www.amazon.com/Pc-Not-Typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/09...