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I haven't even tried to use any todo apps, (the text file has always served me well) but what experience I have with proprietary formats is that they're a poor choice for storing data, since either they're poorly designed or the designer is constantly redesigning them and invalidating your data.

As for aid in Africa, that's a specific charity you worked with in Africa. There are people who do good work there. Dismissing aid because people are bad at it is like dismissing software development because people are bad at it. One way or another it's necessary.

It also ignores the armies of undergraduates and computers (the human kind, mostly public school educated women sitting at adding machines) that made most American discoveries and inventions possible. Individuals do make some leaps, but on the whole it's massive collaboration that advances science and technology.

It's a sandbox game, the cost function you try to optimize says more about you than it does about the game.

You'll note it only hit jailbroken iPhones.

I mean in any case it seems a little silly that one would ban all of them and not just ones marked "noncommercial."

Furthermore, the 'ClimateGate' emails only barely show fraud. No, I haven't read them all, but every source I saw pointed to the same exact 'trick' emails, and no one could show anything dirty in the rest.

The offense is not at the statement of fact, the offense is that the fact is stated as if it were the good and proper order of things. The good and proper order of things is equality.

Now, you're free to disagree, but don't misunderstand us.

This guy has a lot of gall to end with that after making such flimsy allegations of fraud against an entire academic discipline. His hyperbolic screeching about the "flood of money" would better be directed at the oil industry.

That's not to say the climate change crowd is without its biases, but if he honestly thinks that they are intentionally committing fraud for love of money and prestige, he is deluded.

Personally, I think that the people he slanders are acting honestly, but I might present a more modest hypothesis:

The people who do research on the climate and on the environment have a dramatic love of forests and lakes and natural, untouched wilderness. Anyone who stands in the midst of the mountains cannot help but see why this is. These people might even be willing to lie to protect them. Money, I assure you, has nothing to do with it. But unfailing love of the natural world? Sure, there are people who would lie without hesitation to protect that. But money? Money has very little importance to people who advocate for reductions in fossil fuels, and I think Hal Lewis' focus on money shows how little he understands the people he maligns.

I don't include myself among them because I am no such researcher, but I share their values, their love of the wild things. Lewis, I'm not entirely sure what he loves. I find it difficult to believe he's really interested in science. I can't believe a rationalist would look at any of the evidence available and be so convinced of fraud.

In order for Microsoft to actually get anything out of this, they're going to have to treat Android as a first-class platform, and beat the user experience of Google Maps, Search, Voice Search, Gmail, Goggles, and so on on Android.

Microsoft doesn't have those kind of engineering chops. They can barely even manage a decent UX on Windows Desktop. (We'll see about Windows Phone 7, but I will be very surprised if it's legitimately better than Android, even Android with Bing baked-in.)

Secondly, while there are 'checkpoints' of sorts in NYC, I don't believe they're the variety staffed by heavily armed guards. I haven't been to NYC in around 5 years, but as I remember it interacting with police, heavily armed or otherwise, would be an extraordinary event on a daily commute.

Of course my definition is arbitrary, but I stand by it.

More importantly, the possible root cause could conceivably be mitigated by a variety of solutions we know how to build - webapps for improved meal planning, recipes, health information, and so on.

Unless there's some serious increases in clock speeds, I'm not sure doing it for every language is worth it. As it is, VMs are a great, general purpose system that are easy to set up, use, and replicate.

Now, there are some really common ones that are more or less idiomatic. i is iterator, ct is count. That said, those save a lot more than 1 character.

That's the whole point. He's trying to restore the meaningfulness of saying someone's a friend. Friends don't enroll friends in NAMBLA. I have to say, for the second day in a row I kind of agree with Zuckerberg. This isn't going to be popular, but it could actually lead to Facebook being less of a distraction and more of a genuine form of communication.

He really has no idea who any of us are, or what our goals are, or more importantly what our vices are. Some of us probably would benefit from a more minimalist lifestyle.

Furthermore, politesse is not a lingual phenomenon. The politesse of a Texan is different from a New Yorker is different from a Minnesotan is very different from a Londoner.