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The gurus are imported from the future. I.e. the gurus already solved your problem and now help their past selves.

Lack of whitespace? Google Mail, YouTube, even their help pages are crammed full of content.

Is there some generally agreed upon definition for that?

Trolls trolling trolls. As always.

If you can find a few million who spend most of their time in the cultural group of trekkies, then yeah.

But still, deregulation and all. Domains will stop mattering somewhen soon. Search engines are important.

Catalan culture. A regional-cultural TLD. If small countries get TLDs, why shouldn't a tightly connected culture of ~5 million get one too?

Banner blindess strikes again. I didn't even see the yellow box until I read this.

Haskell:

    mapM_ (putStrLn . show) [1..1000]

That could be surprisingly popular. Easier to decipher than textspeak too.

"Fuck usability testing, all your software needs is love."

Pointless yammering about how humans are irrational and therefore, things that humans use and/or make should be irrational too.

A color increase/decrease command, which cycles through a palette?

At current population growth, we will run out of addresses—if we give every human one IPv6 address—in only ~6000 years, or—if everybody should get 1000 addresses, for all those internet-enabled toasters and such—in ~5500 years. Obviously we already need to plan ahead and carrier-NAT IPv6.

Zed Shaw's Utu had that idea. Doesn't seem like he's still working on it.

Germany neither has a War on Drugs nor a meth problem. There have been highly criticized raids in Germany, but there are fewer raids per capita in Germany, and in Germany police-citizen interaction is less violent (no automatic assumption that that driver that was just pulled over is armed, for example).

Nice designs, but terrible at conveying information.

(I found the one with the box particularly funny.)

They had a small problem with imported animals and plants in the past ...

Brazil isn't part of the Visa Waiver program and felt that its citizens were being treated unreasonably. Thus, they began being rude to Americans. (IIRC)

Kind of an asshole move, but highly entertaining to watch from the outside.

Well, I am an EU/Schengen citizen, and I would like to know what non-EU, non-Schengen citizens experience at the EU/Schengen borders.

Anybody willing to share how Schengen/EU borders are for foreigners?

Sane wire transfers, direct debit, and a multitude of other things. Credit cards are on the rise though.

Clarke has positive/neutral immortality in the City and the Stars.

See iTunes EULA:

>>> THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE. <<<

Well, I certainly had more useable time. Stupid addiction. Mainstream reddit manages somehow to be just interesting enough to justify reading it. Even though 95% of it is trite.

It could make sense in a Brave New World scenario.

Wait. Who owns the AMD fab in Dresden?

io[1] has 10k lines and is embeddable. It's somewhat similiar to Lua.

[1]: http://www.iolanguage.com/

SSL certificates usually come with the OS or the browser. AFAIK there's no easy way for the ISP to add certificates.

ipredator happened.

In Comp Sci, Architecture and Civ Eng you basically have to make it stable, make it work and—least & last—make it pretty. Fashion and Design have slightly different priorities.

I wonder what kind of gender ratio UX, UI and IA have.

Re: Number of bits per pair: TC, AG, CT and GA? I.e. composition (1 bit) and direction (1 bit)? Not sure, but that seems to be the most logical way.