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Re:Income tax centennial: 100 years of income tax code on Saturday October 05, 2013 @11:16AM (#6500896)
Because police with big guns.
Re:Airpair's fast growing pair programming community on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:28PM (#6485876)
Your site is extremely slow. Maybe you need some expert help ;-)

Sign in with Google? Yeah, why not. Sign in with NSA?

Sounds like a good idea, the guys from techzing were trying to build something similar. I can really use a CSS expert right now to polish my web site. Any alternatives to airpair.com outhere?

Re:Smalltalk: Swimming with the fish on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:02PM (#6485708)
You can swim with the fish or grow up and play with the big boys (Lisp >> Smalltalk).
Re:Garbage Collection vs. malloc/free on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @05:57PM (#6485670)
iOS is a technology swamp.
Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked on Friday September 27, 2013 @12:28PM (#6457792)
Haha, many people just find it too painful to admit they were ever wrong. So once they say they support a given team, party, church, company they start ignoring all evidence against it.

Interesting how after your original argument (the difference between app and bookmark) was defeated you came up with a new one (percentage of people liking).

Re:Empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @11:02PM (#6442371)
Yeah, that system was beta-tested on 9/11.
Re:Why Is Zambia So Poor? on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @05:52PM (#6408402)
Seriously? You are way too naive.
Re:Why Is Zambia So Poor? on Sunday September 15, 2013 @09:22PM (#6391067)
The colonial borders in Africa and Asia are not an accident. The political elite of US, UK, France, etc. understands all too well nationalism. You are very bad at understanding Divide and conquer ;-).
Re:Software Development Estimates: Where Do I Start? on Sunday September 15, 2013 @09:11PM (#6391031)
"As usual" for what - a book, the author, a book series called Demystifying the Black Art ?
Re:Web Based Haskell IDE/App Server from FP Complete on Monday September 09, 2013 @06:15PM (#6356637)
It's quite expensive, so unlikely to become a popular choice for programming noobs.
Re:New iPad browser from Opera on Monday September 09, 2013 @10:22AM (#6353586)
And it doesn't run the JIT compiler. Which means all 3rd party browsers in non-jailbroken iOS are slower than Safari and Phonegap apps are a lot slower than native apps.
Re:Left with Nothing on Monday September 09, 2013 @06:03AM (#6352557)
No, that won't help. When accountants got electronic spreadsheets, the complexity of accounting laws rised 50 fold.
Re:Yahoo says U.S. sought data on 40,332 user accounts in 2013 on Monday September 09, 2013 @05:58AM (#6352554)
>> The government has stated several times

You're a certified crazy person if you trust the US government.

Re:Programmer's Day - 13 September on Monday September 09, 2013 @05:58AM (#6352551)
For the majority of programmer's, it's just a stressful 9-to-5 job.
The Congress is a political puppet theater. The is no difference between Republicans and Democrats, the same masters are pulling their strings.
Re:Left with Nothing on Sunday September 08, 2013 @06:12PM (#6350624)
The complexity of the laws is not a coincidence:

1. It gives more power to the government and less power to the people.

2. The majority of lawmakers are lawyers - complexity means them more job/business opportunities and significance in society.

Re: On Lisp: Happy 20th Birthday on Sunday September 08, 2013 @03:37PM (#6349963)
>> the Clojure IRC channel

What's the full address?