You remember a specific implementation of a linked list. In Lisp, for example, linked lists are simply pairs. the list a,b,c,d,e,f would be (a, (b, (c, (d, (e, f)))). the head operation is simply getting the first component of the list, the tail is getting the second element. Absolutely no need for nulls.

Firebug does horrible things to your profile. If you're a firebug user, it's advisable to keep separate "with firebug" and "without firebug" profiles.

Fine. Leave it at home.

Jury nullification can serve a higher sense of justice, and that was indeed its intended purpose. But it can just as easily be used, say, by a white jury to pardon a white man for murdering a black man.

There's a lot of stuff inside a computer that doesn't make it to the spec sheet, and that is usually described as "better building quality". Now, we can harp on about the sexy aluminium chassis, which frankly only matters if you're treating your laptop like crap. Or you can get down to stuff that's perhaps a little less obvious, but, at least in my case, much more relevant.

When I joined the company I'm currently working for, I was given a budget for a laptop. Given that budget, I suggested they instead buy me a set of display/mouse/keyboard, and I'd use my own Macbook Pro. Some time later, after the advantages of the big display and lower-set keyboard starting becoming obvious to the rest of the company, people got upgraded to similar setups. Now, I work at a place where there are loads of power fluctuations. What we immediately saw was all the other laptops here that connect via VGA to their respective displays got serious issues with the image flickering. I don't mean a tiny flicker, I mean great big stripes visible a metre away. Disconnecting the laptops from their chargers fixes the issue, as does connecting them via DVI/HDMI where possible. The voltage regulators in those laptops' power supplies suck balls, and the noisy power is propagating all the way to the display. Me? I'm still working on the MBP, and it works just fine with VGA.

Granted, "I work in a place with bad power" isn't exactly the biggest issue in most people's minds when they're shopping for a laptop. I also agree that it's a steep price difference for "better build quality" (I still think that the buying into the OS makes it worthwhile, though I accept that others don't). But it's quite clear to me that comparing purely on the performance specs is missing some details of the whole picture.

Oh nevermind. For some reason I was confusing Tanooki suit with Racoon Mario.

I always assumed the Tanooki suit was made of cleverly folder origami tree leaves like the one you pick up.

The involved executives also got a suspended sentence of 3 years' worth of jail time.

If I'm answering the question why I'm personally stuck with Windows, "Key games" obviously has to mean "whatever games I consider most relevant", and not some consensus opinion of what games matter most. The games I do play day-in day-out are almost all windows exclusive.

What we're discussing here is replacing the flash video and flash application niche, not more "static" web design. Dreamweaver helps with the latter, but not the former.

Games. I tried migrating towards consoles, but certain key games are still PC-specific.

0.1% * 1000$ * 1 transaction = 1$ tax.
0.1% * 1$ * 1000 transactions = 1$ tax.

What you really want is a fixed x cents tax, with x open to discussion. That tax puts an effective limit on the minimum margin required to make a purchase/sell pair profitable.

Except you're not looking at the temperature as a whole. Idea is that if, say, you have fluctuations on the magnitude of 1 degree, you're measuring what's happening at the 10^-2 degree scale, with a thermometer with 10^-4 degree precision. The idea here is whatever patterns can be discerned are happening at a much higher magnitude, so the third or fourth digit is effectively random, while not measuring at so low a magnitude that any bias in the sensor at close to its rated precision isn't introducing a pattern by itself.

How would pseudo-random numbers fit into that theory? That have all the outwards appearance of randomness, all the while being a very precise pattern.

On today's screens, a fairly large section of the population is on a 15" laptop display (If it's that large). And the resolution should be more or less irrelevant. Also, you'll find that Fitts's law is pretty universal, tiny screens don't come into it. Whether the size of desktop displays (and, especially, multi-display setups -- you do have a point there!) have enough of an effect that the factors change weight, now that is a discussion worth having.