claystu

You are getting downvoted, but there are obviously tens (hundreds??) of millions of people of faith--not just Christians--who would instantly reject any product with a demon as its mascot.

As a regular Linux/OSX/Windows user, here are the three (3) questions that I would need answered before switching:

1) In a world with Kali Linux, Arch, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc... what does FreeBSD give me that I don't already have?

2) In a world with OSX as a commercial Unix, what does FreeBSD give me that I don't already have?

3) In a world where virtually every desktop computer is Windows, what does FreeBSD give me that I don't already have?

If FreeBSD can't supply a good answer to those three questions, it's already lost.

What resources did you use to figure out how to do that?

This is an interesting use of spreadsheets.

That's not a systematic bias. The senate was DESIGNED from the beginning to be immune to population differences: each state gets two senators, regardless of population. It was one of the compromises that convinced the small states to join the union in the first place.

Congress is limited to what it can legislate with the remainder defaulting back into the jurisdiction of the states as part of the Federalism system of checks and balances.

Check out Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which enumerates the primary law-making jurisdictions of Congress.

Pace v Alabama was from 1883. Perez v Sharp was a California case from 1948--an odd case to cite since it had no controlling authority outside of California.

Regardless, Loving v Virginia (1967) was decided by unanimous decision--and that's back in the 60's--just three years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. I don't know of anyone seriously suggesting that the holding in Loving is in jeopardy today; it's literally the direct application of the 14th Amendment.

Improvements in car seats would be my guess. Plus, vehicles were required by law to include special latches for anchoring car seats starting around the early 2000's. It was surprisingly tricky to properly install a car seat before those latches.

Figure 10-20 years for old cars to get swapped out for new ones and we're probably at a point now where most cars are equipped with those latches.

What was it like to use a BBS? In a word: awesome.

I was lucky enough to go to middle school in the late 80's with a kid who loved computers even more than I did and actually ran his own BBS on a 286 with a 20? megabyte hard drive. I asked my dad if he could bring home a modem from work. He delivered--I have a memory of 4800 baud, but that could be wrong). I dialed my friend's number and the rest was history.

The BBS experience consisted of three things:

First, trying to log in. A BBS was just somebody's computer attached to a private phone line. The more popular the BBS, the longer you had to wait until you connected. Luckily, ZModem had a redial feature. (Years later, my college would require us to call in to register for classes over the phone with long wait times and I used ZModem to auto-redial until I got in). Sysops would also limit users' time online to a set number of minutes to make sure everyone got a chance. The computer clocked your time. When your time ran out, the computer booted you and you couldn't log back in until 12:01 AM.

Second, the door games. Damn I miss those door games. You could log in and select from a whole host of games against other players. I lived for online Risk! God only knows how many games I played. I also played a little resource game called Space Dynasty and occasionally this other space 4X called Space Dominion or something that might have been programmed by the Sysop and his friend.

Third, the discussion boards. Think Hacker News, but with people from around town. Remember, they're locals because nobody wanted to pay the long distance fees. I actually met some of the people on the BBS. One of them even ran a competing BBS that I occasionally visited. People also played role playing games that way and conducted entire campaigns with strangers. Today, that's normal game play, but in 1988 it felt like stepping into a science fiction movie.

A good BBS honestly felt like a community. The identity you created for yourself mattered in those forums.

Good times!

You can overflow buffers all sorts of ways in C.

The Amish. No joke.

My dad's from there. The guy who lives next door to my grandparents drives a truck for the Amish since they can't.

Tax incentives. It's how we encourage a lot of good samaritan behavior.

Offer tax deductions for trees and watch forests pop up everywhere.

Your suggestion of parsing out the in-code documentation would go a long way towards documenting the libraries, provided the documentation is of high quality. However, that still doesn't address the bigger question: how do I program in Pharo.

There's a book, "On to Smalltalk" that actually did a decent job of getting you started, but it's decades out of date now.