Moschops

Yeah, so the blogger can't deal with CEOs and other authority figures

You've mistaken "hyper-competitive dickhead" for "CEO" and "authority figure".

"Sometimes you should be free to call a spade a spade."

Could you not say "black" instead? I think "spade" carries unnecessarily derogatory baggage.

I was there on holiday last week; whilst I saw lots of military hardware in the parades, I must say that I didn't see any SAM batteries in Pyongyang (and we did a lot of driving around, and had a good look at it from the top of the Juche Tower and the revolving restaurant on top of the Yanggakdo).

Not here in the UK. Fired on the spot? That'd be a dream scenario to take to an industrial tribunal.

By request, more information.

We never ran any NeXT machines. There was no (and frequently continues to be, thankfully - we've got some good negotiators who manage to convince the customer that picking the language themselves is often not smart) customer requirement on language. As I recall, a number of candidate languages were examined as a replacement for C (which was what we were mostly using at the time) and the lightness of Obj-C, its Smalltalk-like object model and the ease of training newcomers to go from C to Obj-C, were amongst the reasons.

We've been using it for over a decade (small part of a major defense company). We do not (and have never) targeted any Apple operating systems.

The fashion industry is heaving with straight men already.

Hopefully the electronic edition will keep going for the foreseeable future; replacing its effect ourselves would be a real pain. Wikipedia just does not replace it; Wikipedia aims to presents consensus of sources on the web (even when it is broadly acknowledged that consensus is wrong), EB aims to present correctness.

That already exists in so many variations.

For all his skills, there are no two ways about it. Torvalds is a jerk. The kind of jerk who leads a technical rebuttal with a personal insult.

Hanging out here making comments is of course not at all a waste of time.

"Who cares?"

The guy who wrote it clearly does.

Please do not assume that your personal opinion is shared by everyone.

Sounds like maths taught properly. Why not just do that instead?

As an aside, it is a watershed moment in any profession when the practitioners find themselves believing that their profession is so fundamental it should be taught to all children. Bravo, coders of the world :)

In many countries, the law states that many things cannot be signed away or agreed to, no matter how much you want to.

The saying is also "preaching to the quire"[0]. :)

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[0]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quire#Noun_2

It should change in the regions of the world that will be affected by SOPA; rather than going dark, display a pseudo government notice about the site being closed to citizens, and below that give instructions on how you can circumvent it and see HN, in exactly the way people will circumvent SOPA when it arrives. People get to see HN, and awareness is raised, and everyone gets to learn how to circumvent it.

Practice and understanding for when you've got to work on something that comes with 4k of RAM in total, if you're lucky.

He didn't say "death toll" or "long term economic effects", he said "effort". The question posed is about the U.S. effort. Has the U.S. effort in Haiti been significantly more impressive than it was in New Orleans? If so,is it just because different authorities are involved? Presumably FEMA has no involvement in this one? Maybe lessons have been learnt from New Orleans?

In other news, eating bananas doesn't cure cancer, learning Arabic won't prepare you for a job as a SCUBA diver, and numerous other things don't do something they're not at all meant to do.

"Nor did he ever claim it to be"

He totally did. He said he put his life on the line. What really got put on the line was his lifestyle.

So perhaps it's time for the East to take charge again.

Aye, *nix port, please.

"I think that the message is very clear here: somewhere outside of and beyond our universe is an operating system, coded up over incalculable spans of time by some kind of hacker-demiurge. The cosmic operating system uses a command-line interface. It runs on something like a teletype, with lots of noise and heat; punched-out bits flutter down into its hopper like drifting stars. The demiurge sits at his teletype, pounding out one command line after another, specifying the values of fundamental constants of physics:

universe -G 6.672e-11 -e 1.602e-19 -h 6.626e-34 -protonmass 1.673e-27....

and when he's finished typing out the command line, his right pinky hesitates above the ENTER key for an aeon or two, wondering what's going to happen; then down it comes--and the WHACK you hear is another Big Bang."

In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Neal Stephenson.

Sp., "effects" -> "affects"

Al! You're famous!

P.S. My web mail interface still getting worse :)

I expect whoever posted the title didn't even realise that it was a niche set of tutorials - if all you code is web, it's easy to forget that not everyone else does the same. Can it be relabelled?