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These are surprisingly worthless, without the quoty explaining the context. Kind of like Zen Koans, you can make of them what you will.

Something I'd really like is a way to expose CSS styles to the editor easily. One of the major problems I always run into is that my customers try to make things look like the rest of the website by hacking the text a bit.

They'll see a highlighted word or sentence with a bold font, wider spacing and a blue background. So they set the background blue, the font bold and the spacing wider. But really, the editor should provide an intuitive way to apply the <span class="highlight"> element.

Some editors out there do this, but they generally suck in other areas. Wysihtml seems to apply inline CSS. Can it easily apply a class too?

I always want to donate to such causes, and always the only options are creditcard or paypal. I don't have a creditcard and I refuse to use paypal.

Last time Wikipedia asked for donations, they had a nice iDEAL (the online payment system in the Netherlands) option right there on the first page. I entered €50,- pressed a button and presto. Done.

Moral of the story: if you want donations, invest some time into making it super easy to get donations. I can't imagine there isn't some online service that'll let people pay in just about every possible payment method there is.

To say that a mathematician doesn't intuitively understand single-letter names would be like saying a programmer doesn't intuitively understand a keyboard.

Dijkstra was a computer scientist in times where being a computer scientist meant you were basically a mathematician with a specialty. Semaphores were first introduced by him in one of his early EWDs (EWD35, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd00xx/EWD35.PDF). At the time of EWD35, his EWDs were non-official musings, written in Dutch, intended to be shared amongst interested colleagues and such. It's not like he was writing a scientific paper.

I don't think Torvalds really meant anything much by it. He's just trying to be funny.

"Early examples of war as metaphor in US political discourse include J. Edgar Hoover's "war on crime" in the 1930s".

We've been using it as a metaphor since 1930's. It hasn't impaired the "real" usage of the word "War" so far. I doubt it will in the future.