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  1. Re:Rule 1 of Star Trek as applied to Knuth's work on Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    It's a shame that DK got distracted by Typesetting and TeX for so long.

    I'm glad he did. I like TeX/LaTeX.

  2. The GP may mean that it's difficult (complex) to write noncomplex, but good code.

  3. Will the Vatican City version support Church Latin?

  4. Re:Don't worry guys... on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If she can't be trusted, then why did he appoint her Secretary of State?

  5. Using 1996 data to construct a model that conforms to 1996 data is cheating.

  6. Did they access to the 1996 data when they developed the model?

  7. Re:Marketing was never Emacs's problem on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    My initial question was about dealing with *.tex files. Why did you respond as you did?

  8. Re:Marketing was never Emacs's problem on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Eclipse only gave me a terminal window when I attempted to open a LaTex file. I'd be shocked if Visual Studio supported TeX/LaTeX.

  9. Re:Marketing was never Emacs's problem on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 0

    Does Notepad++ allow me to compile *.tex files?

  10. Re:Worst Description of Topology ...Ever. on British Trio Wins Nobel Prize In Physics For Study of Exotic Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. . . Bagels!

  11. Re:Plus ca change on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And you have a title/author for such a text? The shortest such text I could find on Amazon was 162 pages, which is far more than one-fourth of K&R.

  12. blasé Seriously, how hard is it to use é?

  13. Re:Plus ca change on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Stroustrup's book is four times as long as K&R. Is K&R four times as long as a standard text on Assembly?

  14. Heather Really Has Two Mommies!

  15. Re:How is this different from any university? on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Notice the desperation, as black people are now being told it's a betrayal to vote for the white man who's not part of the political class.

    Is voting for Trump in the interest of most black people?

  16. Re:Number of Reciients? on The Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Their 26th First Annual Awards Ceremony (improbable.com) · · Score: 1

    Did it have more co-authors than subjects?

  17. Number of Reciients? on The Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Their 26th First Annual Awards Ceremony (improbable.com) · · Score: 1

    A Nobel Prize can be won by at most three people, so shouldn't the Ig Nobel Committee impose a similar restriction?

    PEACE PRIZE [CANADA, USA] -- Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang for their scholarly study called 'On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit'...

  18. Re:Teased, burned on W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And how can W3C compel browser makers to support something?

  19. Re: Teased, burned on W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Both US and Imperial were derived from English units, but I'm not sure they're the same.

  20. Re:Rivalry on Vim 8.0 Released! (google.com) · · Score: 2

    Fair enough, but I take VI improved to be GNU Emacs. People, start your flamethrowers!

  21. Re:23 years ago on Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    How does the Americans with Disabilities Axt deal with memiry. Or is it the American Dental Association?

  22. Bloat? on Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, emacs has a lot of features, but what else are they going to do with it? Could it be faster or use less memory?

  23. Rivalry on Vim 8.0 Released! (google.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs releases an upgrade and vi has to do the same. Ooh.

  24. New NRA slogan on Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll get my gun when your robot takes it from me.

  25. Simulation is not replication on Bank of America Analysts Say There's A 50% Chance We Live In The Matrix (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We simulate weather, but it never rains in the simulation. If we are simulations, we might be simulating something very different from ourselves.