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The adrenaline rush or the lack of could make a difference between life and death. I am thinking of heart attacks, modern western world notwithstanding. But I am not familiar the inner mechanics enoug…

Its only a tiny fraction of all snakes that are poisonous and of them, not all are deadly to humans. But this is largely irrelevant because the chances are high that the snake in front of you has not …

While one may want to be fearless or without the ability to feel pain, they are essential emotions and sensations. The lack of either can be life threatening. Its common among those who cannot feel pa…

The first thing I tried out was different 3-grams of "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Here are the results http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Colorless+green+i... The correlation pat…

I wouldnt say they are my definition :-), it is the standard one. Re-defining same terminology as something else or making them open to interpretation, is detrimental. More so when the point of view…

Could'nt agree more. If the point of the article was: for people who want to do the same old thing then they neednt bother about the new(^) changes, then thats almost a tautology. Someone will find a …

I agree with you. But wouldnt it be good if high level languages supported concurrency. This would make it easier to program certain tasks. A popular opinion I encounter often and also reflected to an…

But arguably this smaller set of programmers have high impact. So it would be a little presumptuous to dismiss the need to understand parallelism. Notions, as those held by the author of the blog post…

Then the wikipedia article doesnt quite match with whats taught in CS courses. In any case the blog post does not agree with the wikipedia position either. I dont think it helps to overload standard d…

The author defines parallelism as splitting a computation into many independent tasks which interact very little, and concurrency as modifying things from different threads/processes/tasklets/whatever…

This is great. Does this imply that Mono finally has constant stack space tail recursions ? Now I can look forward to (Iron)python without arbitrary restrictions on the depth of (tail)recursive calls.…

I having waiting forever for google to support search operators in its reader. I get by by dumping my entire feed locally. But there really should have been a way to do this on their server side.

[I am the submitter] In case the name William Press does not ring a bell think Numerical Recipes. In a separate thread I had pointed out some of the common misconceptions about the effectiveness of r…

I don't think it is really possible to keep a question bank secret. Some students tend to follow up with those who had taken the course last time, at least in my university. So if the question bank is…

Comments and sentiments like "Let them come in India and claim a trademark if it comes to that", doesn't quite encourage people to do what you are asking for. A community, with a well entrenched reput…

I am surprised that nobody has pointed to http://news.usethesource.com/ yet.

I think it definitely would and prefer it that way. Upvoted for your suggestion.

Thats not the same thing, and it is not clear whether it is open either. Arc falls under artistic license and it is not clear at all if its free http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeS…

I think there are genuine needs for something like HNI. For instance there was a thread there about good quiet coffee shops for hacking. Its very India specific and I would know the frustration where …

@Prateekdayal It seems I cannot reply 3 levels deep. But if thats the intent all powers to you.

Given that Prateek has mentioned that he is unfamiliar with lisp/arc I do not think he intends to extend the code. But that would be great, particularly if such extensions are communicated upstream or…

Not sure why this got downvoted. Seems a perfectly legitimate statement.

Why do you keep repeating "not for profit". As some have already mentioned, ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913237 ) it does not make brand name abuse anymore acceptable. Financial profit is …

Then you should'nt have gone public with it in the first place, until those issues had been resolved. I hope I am not being unreasonably critical. Regardless of the fact whether it was legal or not, t…

Fully agreed +1