greml1n

> I consider this a "black armband".

So HN is to SOPA as the SUV driver with the "Support Our Troops" magnet was to the occupation of Afghanistan/Iraq?

Looks like Google is using Lisp (a Scheme dialect, to be precise) as part of their Android App Inventor:

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

1) do you consider shootout results to be reliable?

2) can you show some of these results where common lisp is at least 10x slower than java?

Horror stories where people don't read the ToS and then complain loudly on the internet because they aren't abiding by them?

That's fair enough. I've driven long enough to see that we all do plenty of stupid-enough things in a fully-functioning car.

I had an automatic 2000 Chevy Cavalier that I drove lightly around my second home when I visited it every few weeks. About 2 years in I came to red light and, in applying the brake, it fought as though I was stomping on the gas pedal. I regularly drive stick so I popped it in neutral as I brought it to the side of the road and the engine kept revving despite neither of my feet being on any pedal.

I turned off the car and re-started it without any problems so I took it to my mechanic down the street and had a friend pick me up. The mechanic gave a full run-through and basically didn't believe me.

I drove the car around for another few months without incident until I was taking a longer drive at night on I-95. The car started unexpectedly accelerating so I removed both feet from the pedals and it kept speeding up.

Long story short, this happened several more times (I have low risk-aversion) despite having the electrical system replaced and having numerous mechanics that I know and trust look at it. Before I just gave up on it (annoyed - I like to know what is wrong) one of my mechanics took it out for a drive just to try it out and had it got away from him as well. We never did figure out what caused it.

This is a non-sensical argument. Where did you get this false spectrum of creative <-> focused from?

They drank Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid.

No information at all with respect to industry or responsibilities?

When I google for a bug/question in Python, I invariably find remarks about the same Python I am using (CPython, the effective standard and single implementation that works on all platforms equally well which all users have rallied around).

When I google about the same for whichever of the multitude of Common Lisp implementations exist out there, I have to filter down to which one as well as which platform.

That is a tremendous difference, especially for newcomers.

As for "actual" support, given the focus on a single implementation (which I understand and like that it is not possible with CL), when you need to hire some random consultant service, you don't have to do the same thing when filtering prospective people.

Ah, it randomly loads them.

In that case, this one: http://iaccelerator.org/wp-content/themes/primepress/headers...

Is the guy on the right wiping his nose on his shirt or sniffing his arm pit? Not to be picky but that immediately shot out at me when the page came up.

In any event, the world needs more of these.

It hasn't been published =)

Every time I stumble upon this I get excited. I'm really looking forward to it.

Discovering how to enable NHL took too long. Probably a flow/method of display issue?

How much less could you care?

I know three 20-somethings pairs that are still paying off their weddings after getting divorced.

It would only require special effort to type the double quotes. The iPhone will fix capitalization for you, including converting iphone to iPhone.

I believe that he is talking about:

news.arc:1181-1182

Oh, certainly not. If you google around, you'll find more than a few floating cruise ship ventures that have made it to various stages. =)

True. I think the event just brought about the inevitable death to an industry that wouldn't have been able to keep up as the cost effectiveness, carrying capacity and maximum distance of airplanes grew so rapidly.

I'd imagine that it is at least a few factors. For one, there is a dramatically longer history of sailing and boating such that the occasional accident, even one on a massive scale, doesn't shake confidence so readily.

With respect to airplanes, I think it is again a proven volume/historical problem. Zeppelins (and blimps) have very low maximum speeds and limited capacity. As for airplane accidents, I don't think they are very frequent so much as it is just that they are generally so heavily broadcast (for good reason).

Your (presumably) laptop adjusts light level only, not color "warmth". As for photo-editing, you probably don't want a service playing with your colors.

They include the answer to the question in the page so Google and other pages pick it up. You'll often see part of an answer in the blurb under the link in the search results.

When you follow the link, it hides the answer from you and basically tries to shake you down for money to get access to it.

Individually the practices are ok. When dealt with together, it is a nasty business practice.

Alternate explanation: Google "experts exchange sucks"

Alternate explanation 2: If you first found the site while looking for an Expert Sex Change, you might still be bitter.

In my experience, MySQL has gotten more buggy and less stable over time.

I think it is more survival of the least unfit, but I agree. I'll be happy with English, Arabic and Mandarin.

I am going to master the goto keyword.

Ah, so it is a web-version of something like SubEthaEdit? (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/)

I think the private, for-pay service in your FaQ sounds like an interesting potential replacement.

My attention was drawn as I was wondering why adblock was not working.

This comment genuinely made my day.