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Re:Why your child's school bus has no seat belts on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @01:56PM (#2049719)
I don't understand how anyone can believe it's safer to be unrestrained and free to bounce around the cabin in a crash.

It's definitely cheaper, though. And, maybe more importantly, banning kids who won't stay buckled up would be very unpopular.

Re:Unicode Snowman for You on Thursday December 23, 2010 @04:15PM (#2035878)
How to monetize this? In general, how to monetize being funny/entertaining (on the web)?
I agree with you. Just posting to say that there is an HTTP server in Erlang that's supposed to be very good: Yaws.
This successfully trolled me, because I think Haskell is really good stuff made by really smart and cool people. Surely there was a better target for satire.

I'm an industry programmer (in C). I also have a bunch of packages on Hackage.

Re:Life in Text Mode on Saturday November 27, 2010 @10:39PM (#1946584)
youtube-dl!
Re:Life in Text Mode on Saturday November 27, 2010 @02:35PM (#1945673)
I think he made a lot of good choices. These days I would pick tmux over screen and newsbeuter over snownews.

ion really was a great and influential window manager, but now, it'd probably be better to pick XMonad, awesome, or i3.

vimperator has been a lifesaver for me, but I'm switching to luakit because it doesn't seem to allow flash to steal the keyboard focus.

Re:Life in Text Mode on Friday November 26, 2010 @07:20PM (#1943828)
I was just about to badmouth his tool choices when I noticed that the post is from 2006.