That's TeX for you! :)

Since when is the indexing offset important? You should be using "zip", "map" (or even "parallel-prefix") and the like.

That's the thing that irks me most about Lua. It pretends to be "high-level", but it isn't really. (Well, that and weak typing. There really is not excuse for that -- other than ignorance.)

Null inhabits every single (non-primitive) type in the C# language.

A special tag is not type-compatible with every other single value in the language.

type Maybe a = Just a
                                                              | Nothing

Simple and doesn't infect every fucking variable access with the possibility of null.

Not speaking up signals to these fuckheads that their behavior is acceptable. It's not.

That's just what the aliens want us to believe!

being the operative phrase.

This is simple biased memory. You (or we, as a collective culture) remember the good stuff, not the bad.

If you did actual proper statistics on this stuff I'd bet you'd find just as many crappy movies in the 50's, 60's, 70's etc. as you do now. (Sturgeon's Law probably applies.)

Running RC1 on my Kubuntu and it seems that we've finally arrived at where 3.5 was... only kidding.

I realize that the 4.0-4.3 releases were "experimental" and should never have been pushed as defaults by distros, but...

I may still give up on KDE (weren't expecting that, were you?). Personally, I think tiling window managers are way more efficient once you get past the initial learning curve. Most of the KDE programs are great (Kate, Okteta, Gwenview, etc), but the whole desktop...? Not sold.

From a usability perspective:

• Blue background. Why? Are you trying to accomplish some artistic purpose we're not privy to?
• Why are the pictures laid out vertically rather than horizontally? Why is there lots of text to the right of the second picture rather than to the right of both pictures. That means that your contact info is obscured/invisible to potential readers -- it's also out of context in that place.
• Why do your anchors span multiple sentences rather than just a few semantically relevant key words?

In short: You fail web page design, so who the fuck cares if your page is 10K?

jQuery + jQuery UI (minified) is a lot smaller than the custom shit you're probably thinking about implementing.

(Yes, in an ideal world all the stuff that makes jQuery/jQuery-UI/whatever an attractive proposition would be folded into a standard, but so far it ain't happenin')

... reimplementing jQuery (which is 31K, btw) badly in uncacheable custom ways without being able to draw on the years of expertise of the developers of jQuery would be a great alternative.

You're definitely getting an internet for Christmas.

'As we look at all of the new ways we tell our consumer stories,'

What... astroturfing?

No it wont.