Elrac

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   by Elrac 16y ago

   I think that by "concurrency" you meant "competition." Are you perhaps a German speaker?
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   by Elrac 16y ago

   Lua: Amazing how much you can accomplish in a tiny language that has just one data structure. Perl: Proof that line noise can be executed. PHP: A simple language for simple people. FORTRAN: Accounts of its death are exaggerated. COBOL: Stil
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   by Elrac 16y ago

   I thoroughly hated that ignorant, nasty slide show displaying piece of crap used to present the stuff. It kept wresting control away from me so I couldn't view the slides at my own pace. What ever happened to text on a page, dammit?
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   by Elrac 16y ago

   This is a question I'm very interested to hear an answer to. I've started dabbling with Objective-C and I don't like it much; it would be very sweet if I could write apps for the i{Pad,Phone,*} in a Lisp-like like language.
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   by Elrac 16y ago

   frossie, I mostly agree with you but I wanted to bring up a couple of points: * As you mentioned, the Prez' authority is (mostly) limited to the US. I say "mostly" because the US has been known to exert economic and even military pressure o
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   by Elrac 17y ago

   I keep coming across quotes like "The plot was foiled by nonexpert civilians". That's complete BS! The perpetrator had his chemicals mixed and ignited by the time any of the people around him got wind of what he was doing. His "bomb" had al