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The second edition of How to Design Programs is not finished yet, but I recommend it anyway: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html

Not bad: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Please read the article again, more carefully. I'm sure you just skimmed it while at work, that caused this misunderstanding.

It's not confusing. It would mean what you originally read only if there were a comma after "said".

I recognized them, nontheless, it would be nice to see the credits/licenses of the images.

Also, Happy Birthday Einstein!

Elemental mercury is very toxic, inhaling its vapor is dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)#Toxicity_and...

It also takes the same approach as the posted article: reimplementing basic standard library functions. It's really enlightening.

You can use this tutorial for the first step if you want to do it: Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours by Jonathan Tang. http://jonathan.tang.name/files/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overvi...

I used a book "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig, which employs a special mnemonic technique, to learn to write 2000 Japanese kanji in three months, which was a leisurely pace (twenty-something a day). Many people did the same in a much shorter time, like 100 a day. It works beautifully. If you have problems learning those words, you are most probably either using the wrong technique, or using it incorrectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji

http://www.chinesepython.org/english/english.html

A simple Python program:

  import sys
  filenames = sys.argv[1:]
  
  def fixline(filename):
       text = open(filename).read()
       text = text.replace('\n\r','\n')
       return text

  for file in filenames:
       print fixline(file)

  載入 系統
  文件名 = 系統.參數[1:]

  定義 修正行尾(文件):
       內文 = 打開(文件名).讀入()
       內文 = 內文.替換('\n\r','\n')
       傳回 內文

  取 文件 自 文件名:
       寫 修正行尾(文件)

The first item on the list of related articles: Freiburg to switch back to MS Office (3 days ago)

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Freiburg-to-switch-ba...

No, artists need to see an alternative way of distribution to realize, how can they make it big without the "help" of leeches.

This website can show you the schedule of the ISS and many other satellites ten days in advance: http://www.heavens-above.com

The text is from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.

Jason, I found a little bio of you that said, "Jason Fried is the fastest white man you'll ever meet. He has curly hair and a sunny disposition. He loves to travel, play hoops, and watch sunsets from his roof deck. He wishes he could break dance." Is that all true?

JF: That was an old bio that someone wrote for me. I guess it's probably all true, except for the break dancing part. I really don't have any desire to do that.

http://www.tompeters.com/printer_friendly.php?print=1&no...

No, scientists are coming from the opposite direction. Observing things, then draw conclusions and connect the dots. Pseudosciences, like homeopathy are backwards. They pull "universal truths" out of thin air, like "Law of similars", and after that they don't mind even if experiments and reality doesn't support these theories.

"Chrome has dropped 0.27 points"

Is this a joke? That graph looks like four straight (xkcd-style) horizontal lines.

The point of posting your interests online would be to attract other people with similar interests. That girl was anticipated a stalker, but what she got was most probably a perfectly normal guy who checked her out beforehand to ensure compatibility.

It was not my intention to defend China. But what's with the other 90% of debris? 40% USA, 40% Russia, 10% other is not far from the truth, I guess.

Still, you are unfairly singling out China. From the article you linked:

"It was the first known successful satellite intercept test since 1985, when the United States conducted a similar anti-satellite missile test"

"In February 2008 the US launched its own strike to destroy a malfunctioning US satellite, which demonstrated to the world that it also had the capability to strike in space"

A month later: "Was it 'un1corn' or 'unic0rn'?".

I quote it: "Note to Laser Technicians : Don't let this fluid drip. It costs like Gold!".

http://www.parallax-tech.com/fluorine.htm#price

Yes, this is the truth.

Another good writing on this topic is the Fibonacci Flim-Flam:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

Fire chiefs issue warning that overheating laptops can cause fires

http://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2012/02/24/fire-chiefs-issue...

Laptop fire blamed for Vancouver death

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/08...

Laptop overheats, starts fire that destroys west St. Louis County home

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Firefighters-battling-blaze-a...

Israel Police: Fatal fire in family home likely caused by overheated laptop

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-police-fatal-fir...

etc...

etc...

If the laptop gets too hot in a bag, it can cause fire, so it's a potentially life-threatening bug.

Traditionally, East Asian languages and Hungarian (I don't know about Lithuania and Iran), that use the YMD format have an overall "big endian logic". We say many things backwards compared to the rest of the world. Our names are also in reverse order, for example.

Even a simple crop can make a large effect: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread545972/pg1

This is nothing compared to medical software, for example. All you can lose here is some money, but no human life in danger. Some more perspective.