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Stark difference? 3. and 4. are identical to King's recommendations in "On Writing". King is pretty passionate about that. 5. is the same, I think. 7. is kind of a difference, although …

K&R, then Hanson's "C Interfaces and Implementations".

German as well: "bis an die Zähne bewaffnet"

Do you happen to use Chrome? I saw something like that (dropped characters) on another site, as well. Only with Chrome, neither with IE nor Firefox.

I've just finished the first three Culture novels. Consider Phlebas starts great, but loses a lot during the rest of the book. The Player of Games is okay, but by far not as good as people told m…

That's exactly the point why "software engineering" still isn't. It's tinkering, and as much as we software developers would like to keep it that way, at some point mankind wi…

I had never expected RMS to let go of his child, but the moment he handed over maintainership of Emacs was really a new starting point. A lot of bickering just went away, and pragmatism played at leas…

Sure, that's a valid choice. But when you're implementing a language ecosystem, proud ignorance of other peoples' usage patterns is just embarassing.

If he's medically unable to travel for questioning, he cannot travel for his trial, either. The trial which by law has to begin two weeks later, at the latest. Really, we've had that dozens …

I'd laugh my ass off if Assange came out of the embassy eventually, was extradited to Sweden, and after a short interview they'd let him go.

It's technologically possible, but not legally. Shall we rehash all the facts again ?

The pronunciation of Latin is extremely well studied and mostly known, including changes throughout its history. Unfortunately it's quite far away from the pronunciation I've learned in scho…

It's not citizenship. Estonia makes that abundantly clear whenever they are talking about this. The original title says "Virtual States Come Online". Flagged for being willfully mislead…

Coincidental. I haven't kept my archives, even though at one point I had sucked postings for several nights (all of de.*, and the Big8, I think). But others kept their "purple data" rel…

Hamster is a local news and mail server for Win32. It's comparable to sn on Linux: it acts as a reader, not as a "real news server" (IHAVE/SENDME). So people could use it with thei…

That's the least of the problems. At some point Google Groups got really inconsistent, where it didn't turn up many, many postings and threads when searching for them. For some time you coul…

I don't see how Google should have any responsibility wrt. Usenet. Google is not the only party having Usenet archives. They are not even in any way special. They aren't the "official&q…

> Whatever happened to rather that 10 guilty men walk free rather than that one man be jailed innocent? That has always been bullshit, the way you and most of the Internet are misusing this quotati…

I think 'tptacek wrote in some other thread about WAAH and Cryptography Engineering being two of the others.

That's simply not true.

It may be preferable to you, but it's certainly not for the intended audience.

Tell that to Valve. I wish I could change my Steam user name that I chose in my juvenile years.

In open source, yes. And probably also overall. They are even doing iOS targetting, if I remember correctly. At least many of the commercial Windows implementations (Dolphin?) seem to be a bit dormant…