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  1. Then they came for the practical jokers on Joking About Giving Money To ISIS Can Cost You Money (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So everyone, add spook.lines to your outgoing money transfers.

    ^ https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/spook.lines

  2. Not all that it seems on Growing A House From Meat · · Score: 1

    Listen to me people, I've got to tell you, Meat House is JERKY! [ref Heather Smith in Winter issue of Meatpaper, via Harpers, May 2010].

  3. The Voyage of the Beagle on Classic Books of Science? · · Score: 1

    Darwin's best selling account of his travels on the H.M.S. Beagle.

  4. Mozilla based, with MMX extensions! on What is a Good Free MUD Client? · · Score: 1

    There is an xpi mozilla based client at

    http://pueblo.mozdev.org/index.html

    The project looks like it pricked its finger on a poison needle about two years ago though. I would guess that it wasn't going to work with a recent build of firebird ;)

  5. Get rid of the developers who need IDEs on Java IDEs? · · Score: 1

    Your fearless leader was actually asking how to speed up development, and standardising on a new tool is not likely to help.

    Real coders don't need IDEs (though IDEA does look nice). Actually, I use J++, but only as a text editor, Ant is my development environment.

    When I get an upgrade to my machine, I might try switching to one of the slower IDEs and hope I don't notice, and then I will be able to make variables called Delegate and Multicast again.

  6. Re:Why do people still use text editors for HTML? on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Authoring Tool is the Best? · · Score: 1

    Gosh - well, when I wrote my honours thesis I wrote it in troff (mostly on my macintosh at home) and was then able to print out lovely postscript instead of crappy ms-word.

    Using troff was about one the best things to come out of that year. Give it a try. Learning how to put error bars on my graphs was fun.

    It's not about worrying about what the hex value for sky blue is, it's about worrying about quality and control.