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Comment · 7 years ago
If we talk about gender equality why take into consideration only part of the picture not a whole? Is it fair?
Comment · 7 years ago
And the so called 'male-chosen' professions generally have higher risk of serious health consequences, injuries or death.
Comment · 8 years ago
"I used it to great effect in a bar brawl once." My opinion is - you were lucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUXTC8g_pk I don't know the guy from the video but I think his assessment is very honest and balanced.
Comment · 8 years ago
"But if this is the case you should not trust any website with your password anwhere ever".

That is why you should use unique password for each site.

Comment · 9 years ago
This is quite old and probably been posted here: http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines....

But this in my opinion explains well both why people are seduced by forth and why forth is not widely used.

EDIT: also gives opinion why Chuck Moore can be successful using forth.

Comment · 9 years ago
Text-to-speech in kindle was really nice feature in my opinion.
Comment · 9 years ago
I doubt it's a solenoid. Solenoid can be used for galvanic separation in AC circuits not DC. Maybe you mean relay?
Comment · 10 years ago
Could you explain why? I have quite a bit of experience with Z80 and x86 (16bit) assembly. I remember that I've tried to learn 6502 many years ago but lost interest after a while. I remember that 6502 didn't feel superior to me then, quite opposite.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Newsletter is not connecting your subscribers together - add that and you have good old mailing list. One of my friends created such a mailing list for our circle of friends some time ago but it didn't win with the Facebook.
Comment · 11 years ago
But they did not use any backdoor. Etchalon is right - if they had to access file system how should they do that if it was encrypted? And you were in control of the situation - next time change the password to temporary one before handing it over. And if you are really paranoid decrypt and encrypt the drive afterwards to have new encryption keys ;-)

EDIT: spelling.

Comment · 11 years ago
Having GC does not mean that you need to surrender all of control. You just need to know which operations are allocating memory (consing) and which are destructive. In Common Lisp you often have both variants available - like reverse & nreverse.
Comment · 12 years ago
Do you have javascript enabled?
Comment · 12 years ago
Could we please have the way to unlock someones abilty to post comment (delete comment, wait for timeout etc.) described in the FAQ?

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