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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

>Best minds of any generation have always thought about ways to make money.

Yeah, but sometimes it comes from developing technology that sends people to the moon. Or technology that reduced a roomful of vacuum tube computer technology to a chip the size of your fingernail. Or finding ways to mass-produce cheap chip-based computers affordable my hundreds of millions of people... You know, stuff that actually kinda matters, and can improve people's lives.

Microsoft didn't fail either. Who said anything about "Failed company logos on t-shirts"...?

No SUN? Their logo would probably be the best seller.

Linus makes fine points, but it's asinine to say that standards don't matter. His entire contribution to the world could not exist without them.

AOL keyword: Facebook

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

A very enjoyable tutorial. Supposedly, this site was going to come out in book form. If/when it does, it should become the de-facto "Camel book" for Haskell.

s/naughty/stupid

Maybe he mapped CapsLock to be a control key, like the rest of us. :)

"Sometimes, when the difference between "best way" and "standard way of doing things" is not so great -- it is better to go with standard practice. "

...and thus XML is born.

By following Step 3, you will lose much more than whatever the amount was in Step 2.