ruethewhirled

Can anyone explain what is meant by "managing IO" in the statement "I’m not even going to consider a system valid without managing IO in some way. So yes, all flavors of Lisp are off the table as well."? Is that like monads?

Thanks, was wondering if it was on github!

I find this article a terrible sweeping generalization and opinionated based on the authors perception of success and what it takes to be successful.How about working smarter and not harder

I found it amusing that to view the 1 second video at the end I had to watch a 30 second advert first

Not to be a wet blanket, but isn't posting that copyright infringement?

Ah this is going to kill my mobile usage of the site, which is the main way I use the Facebook, website version not the app. Theres no way I'm going to incur bandwidth and annoyance of the sound of ad's playing on my phone. Bandwidth would be the key factor since I have a limited mobile trafic cap. But any sites that make noise without me interacting with them annoys the hell outa me.

Other than mobile usage I check the site about 1-2 times a week on my laptop which doesn't have flash installed (I use Chrome for Youtube/flash content sites) so hopefully the ad's aren't html5.

Like most things in life, It doesn't matter when you start, more that you start at some point and spend time and effort in getting better.

There's actually alot of things they could fix to improve the user experience. Just signed up for an account and it wasn't overly pleasant. List of a few gripes:

  * No ajax on name availabilty

  * very limited secret question options ( min of 5 chars for answers)

  * Wasn't overly obvious which fields were required until you hit submit ( in the end I think they were all required)

  * Initially there was a smug looking guy on the login page(pretty nitty picky) he seems to be gone now but if goto www.outlook.com you get a broken image

I find that American style ad's have an underlining fakeness to them, its hard to put my finger on it. I'm assuming its just a cultural difference being from New Zealand but some ad's from the States just grate me the wrong way. These Apple ad's are particularly bad in this respect.

Anyone noticed increased CPU usage?

I'm not making a comment on the morality of the images only that some automatic content filters might consider it pornography which is usually not allowed in corporate environments

Quick note: There's a not quite safe for work image near the bottom of the article (Topless tribal woman)

Don't bother clicking on the above site, is some kinda spam link

High doses of salt is toxic