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No, although I subscribed the first time. I read it here ;-)

Hebrew has a vocalization system to signal it, though (for educational purpose, for example).

Thanks, that post was fantastic. Having the arabic words in larger font size would have been great, though - really hard to look at them and spot the differences in that size (and zooming all the time is annoying).

Nice design! The examples colorings look a bit too much like done by an illustrator though, is this targeted for kids ?

Firefox 18 is going to be 23% faster than Chrome 34

Irrelevant love will be deleted, though.

I doubt that, and there is also a EU interface to VAT ID confirmation that is 24/7.

"Asia and the rise of convenient authoritarianism" ;-)

Interesting - bit close to Russia, though ;-)

Nice, thx. Looks pretty easy (not sure how complicated or detailled the verificion of the individual points would be, though).

Experts got replaced by administrative bureaucrats who delete other peoples knowledge and work.

Siemens astroturfing http://geniusnow.com/2011/03/15/the-strange-case-of-josef-oe...

The blog post by that 'MIT PhD' seems to be a case of Siemens astroturfing: http://geniusnow.com/2011/03/15/the-strange-case-of-josef-oe...

Down ?

Hm, to me the value proposition is this:

There are many, many interesting projects that I want to look at, read, potentially use or learn from.

Every little help for reading and understanding many open source projects faster is a huge value and a huge timesaver for me.

I think that clean syntax is just the better tool, like other people would probably prefer an IDE with integrated toolchain and dozens of tools that are modeled after the state of a programming system at some point in time.

Readable semantics behind a clean syntax are the more flexible toolchain in my eyes. It's like an integrated user interface. I can easily read and understand CS/Haml/Sass/Ruby/.. in my own files, in some libraries that i installed, in posts on blogs and on github ..

The fact that cs is doing this 'the right way', meaning safe for all environments, as you have explained below, is one of the reasons I like it.

I have to say that by using cs I learned a lot more about js. Maybe for old js cats it doesnt matter, but I only used js occasionally before, and now it became one of my favorite languages (I use with node, and I write all my node stuff in cs).

One particular example that changed everything for me was the natural and simple way I could build the typical callback constructs with -> and => , so they almost look like blocks in ruby, and feel way more natural as a control construct, and I didnt have to stack lots of })}); and so on.

If you're rather new to something, the ease of use and the simplicity and readability speeden up the learning process extremely.

That being said, there are also a couple of things in cs that are kind of silly.. like using 'for i in my_array', but 'for k of my_dict', and stuff like that, that are really hard to debug.

Although, in terms of debugging, the fact that it gets compiled and possible errors are early detected and a canonical js is generated also saved me lot of time, in particular with IE ;-)

Can't wait for the result. Seriously..

This electronic communication thing seems to be a western myth, the protests took place throughout a week of cut down internet. It's just how we currently observe it, but that doesn't mean it's how it works on the ground.

Yes, I can confirm that it's surprisingly easy to run git with gitosis over ssh on your own server for a few dollars. Takes a couple of minutes to setup. And of course you can make it public and you can share it with other people with keys.

I always ran into problems when doing full screen applications like aptitude (over ssh) and vim in iTerm1, so I had to switch back to Terminal.app - I hope it is fixed now, and I'll give it a try..

I know that they are there - as I figured out when visiting it the first time. Just takes a bit to find it ;-)

Would be nice to have a preloaded example - i had to look at the screen for half a minute just to sort out all the elements that don't make immediate sense if there's not context that you're accustomed to..

Oops - maybe the ruling class in Tunisia should have made the state their intellectual property.

I always found the fact that Wikipedia doesnt exactly assure you of having discovered final, exact truth absolutely delighting ;-)

Maybe we will see the cultural influence of this 'negotiation' 10 or 20 years from now. It must have some kind of influence that all kids in the last few years have learned that actually all knowledge is fabricated by humans, rather than representing a historical or scientific truth. Not saying that there isn't one, but it makes the process of power and arguments that lead to a 'common sense' on any subject more transparent.

"There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened."

I used sage quite often when studying. I think many people today learn the one or the other programming language quite early, so it becomes natural to them, and an open source mathematical system like sage which extends their understanding of programming with mathematical/symbolic ideas is more powerful and way easier to adapt than those proprietory systems.

Good, downvote positive feedback. Great idea.

Wow, thanks for the link!

Is it better than 0xED ? Don't work that much on the Mac anymore, always found 0xED quite nice.

Hmm.. web apps are usually half app, half information system, which really supports help systems and stuff like that. I like the way they support me, as connected information and easily provided context is ubiquitous, while desktop apps always give me this feeling that they follow too strict rules to match stuff that probably doesnt need the framework at all..