bad_wolf

Also, I cannot seem to get the full site to load on my Android device. Works fine on my laptop, of course.

I agree that cushman seems to be being thick, but there are two magnetic poles on all magnets including the Earth, dangit, not "the magnetic pole of the planet". In fact, the part that points north is the magnetic south pole of the compass.

(Now I suspect the bit about the level of discourse does apply; I was well-aware of magnetic polarity in 1st grade, and polarity itself defines there being two ends...)

You may not like it, but to most people a story with a cute kid in it is worth a thousand reports produced by a team of legal and technical experts. We here may not like the appeal to anecdote and emotion, but these things would not be common logical fallacies if they weren't effective.

So this might be just the story that will stick in people's craw about what patent reform could mean to them.

Natural languages have syntax highlighting; note the capitalization of proper nouns in English, or better yet all nouns in German, along with capital letters to start sentences. There are various typographical standards, all of which provide syntax highlighting, and it's arguable punctuation serves a related purpose (note the pairing of certain marks in Spanish).

after all you can still read this without it but it takes more effort i think the author may have glossed over the aspects in language because they have faded to background noise if your syntax coloring is a distraction change it if it works dont

(That was surprisingly hard.)

Within the last six months I used a hex editor to diagnose a problem with a PCM streaming solution and generate a "corrected" form of the output to show how my hypothesis was correct.

So I think today's programmers will do just fine.

Which makes me wonder if Khrzhanovsky has heard of it, and if not, what his reaction will be on finding out.

Interesting. Everything I've heard, and my own experience, indicates the fitter you are, the more readily you sweat. One example, from the guy who coaches Lance Armstrong: http://www.trainrightblog.com/2011/03/28/chris-carmichael-bl...

I think it took his death only to make the realization (and discussion) simultaneous.

Heck, I had been thinking about his impact this past weekend, and I've spent a grand total of two dollars with Apple (and own no Apple hardware).

If 19 is represented differently in binary on your platform than (leading zeros)10011, you are already quite screwed.

You might be thinking of character representation for the later example.