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I used to frequent rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction. There Andrew / Zarf was a regular. Looks like now he is still active in interactive fiction. Salute to him!

An economist might say the "transaction cost" of other kinds of entertainment has become much lower than hosting a dinner.

I also wondered why RMS is not in the list of famous people using Emacs. He's the frickin creator and also famous. Or is he a persona non grata now?

I think it's a shortcut for saying that react doesn't have an 'official' routing library (like vue-router) and state management library (like vue's pinia). So depending on what you choose to manage routing / state, one react app can be quite different from another.

Maybe nowadays there is a set of popular libraries for react so it becomes framework-y?

Wait, react is a framework now? People used to say that react is just a model binding library. FYI I haven't used react.

Housing price goes down, but there's no maintenance. No shops open nearby, no hospitals, no firemen, no police, no gas stations.

People will flock to cities that still have services. Then the cities will have the same population density as before.

Cixin Liu's Dark Forest theory is security through obscurity. If you don't have any other defense mechanism, at least try to hide.

Hey me too! Japanese trap is great.

Examples examples examples. From the most common use cases to the less common. With annotations and links to the endpoint reference.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I read this book during college, but I wish I had read it earlier in my life, like when I was in junior high. This book set my priorities straight.

Marvin the paranoid android

Have you ever experienced your list becomes bloated with items? Then you spend your time prioritizing and reprioritizing the items?

When that happens to me, I just pick one item and forget the rest of the list.

In case the borrower fails to deliver, the broker lose license, ok understood, but what about the stock itself? Does the transaction gets rolled back? Or will the total number of shares be permanently increased at the cost of the broker's license?

Edit: The lender must write off the stock?

ASP.NET MVC skips the whole ORM part and let programmers deal with the issue however they like. I find this refreshing compared to Rails 2 which enforces ActiveRecord. I hear Rails 3 decouples ActiveRecord but I haven't seen it in action.

This is important if you have a plan to build front end to legacy database.

It's odd that nobody has mentioned Pandora yet: http://www.pandora.com/

Put one song in, and it will give a set of songs that are similar to your song, with explanation why it thinks they are similar.

Too bad it is available only if you are browsing from US IP address.

How about contacting the original site, maybe you can become its affiliate in France?

Yes, ask them 'why' 5 times when they ask for feature A B C.

I don't think the problem is the mailing list style of discussion. Looks like it works fine, even for big projects like the linux kernel. What I find frustrating with mailing list is the archive:

* sometimes there is no archives

* sometimes the archive is unsearchable, only browsable

* for archives with search capability, sometimes the search results are not accurate enough

If end users can find answers through mailing list archive, they needn't post nor subscribe.