Comment Re:C programmers tip their fedora (Score 2) 184
If I were 20 years younger, I could probably write a doctoral dissertation on this.
No need, The paper "A principled approach to software Engineering Education, or Java considered Harmful" was written 16 years ago, see https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/principled_approach.pdf
Comment Re:Desert humidity (Score 2) 93
up to 30% during the wee hours.
That's the wrong kind of humidity...
Comment Re:Lensing (Score 2) 87
If the laws of physics are violated, then dark matter can be explained by purple elephants spontaneously materializing in space.
I think you mean spherical purple elephants
Comment Re:First Post (Score 5, Funny) 121
First Post !
I'm 91% sure it's a fake first post
Comment Re:Over the air updates. To cars. (Score 1) 52
Comment Re:Can someboday please explain to me? (Score 1) 69
Or maybe, What's left in your wake after space-time accelerates past you faster than the speed of light?
Spaghetti.
Or strings, as physicists like to call them...
Comment Re:Editors, are you serious? (Score 1) 166
For bonus nerd creds, I'm writing an essay titled "How hot would it be if Commander Deanna Troi made out with Samantha Carter?".
I would give that 7 of 9 points on the hotness scale...
Comment Red door (Score 2) 52
Comment Re:Ada v. C Re:Not overblown (Score 1) 663
Comment Re:30 cm/s (Score 1) 102
Comment Re:Ada (Score 1) 505
Please produce real numbers for real programs demonstrating a significant cost from bounds-checking.
Comment Re:Ada (Score 1) 505
Comment Re:That's the state of the universe then... (Score 2) 268
Where the smeg is Nodnol?
In Dnalgne, on a planet called Htrae, of course
Comment This is a problem? (Score 5, Insightful) 348
This is sort of weird. As a long time Opera user I never had a problem accidentally leaving the page. My browser always remembered what I'd typed and going forward again to the form page would have all my content as I'd left it.
IMO the problem isn't the backspace key, it's unfriendly browsers.