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Comment · 1 month ago
Absolutely my feeling as well. I'll never understand why more activity and innovation didn't coalesce around object pascal...save for FreePascal and Lazarus which are terrific.
Comment · 2 months ago
As a programmer and former trader at the CME, I'm not at all sure what to think about this product. It will be very interesting to watch how these contacts are priced and traded.
Comment · 2 months ago
I have no idea why there's all these c and c++ alternatives and wannabes when there's Delphi/object pascal. That's my $0.02!
Comment · 3 months ago
Very interesting. Two guys with a shared obsession with overpopulation and ways to remedy it. I wonder if Bill got too dark for Warren.
Comment · 6 months ago
Spock Spock the baby doc

Leads a peace March around the block

Around him, everywhere you look

You see kids he messed up with his book.

-- Rhyme from Mad Magazine, circa 1970s

Comment · 8 months ago
I'm a law and order kind of guy, but this nonsense should probably be ignored.
Comment · 8 months ago
"Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' d*k body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday, this war's gonna end."
Comment · 11 months ago
Honest question: Are you referring to those who are stealing or mis-appropriating taxpayer funds or those that are discovering them?
Comment · 11 months ago
How long would it take to catch up with Voyager using the latest rocket technology and some highly optimized gravity assistance?
Comment · 11 months ago
The only sticker I've ever put on one of my laptops was an Apple sticker. The laptop was a Dell.
Comment · 11 months ago
Ha! There'll be no rounding down.
Comment · 11 months ago
I've always wondered what type of volume will be needed world-wide in landfills to house all the discarded solar panels.
Comment · 1 year ago
How many tests could the Turing Test test if the Turing Test could test tests?
Comment · 1 year ago
I hope they included a broad-spectrum antibiotic in the their swag bags. Other than that, that's quite a sight seeing all those folks paddling down the Chicago River...jeez
Comment · 1 year ago
No one should be above the law.

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