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Deprecatedon Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Unified Text Fields

Being an old VMS fan, I always liked DD-MMM-YYYY (e.g. 29-Jul-2011). At least it eliminates the month day ambiguity which sometimes confuses me.

Deprecatedon Edsger W.Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that might hurt?

I see he favored ALGOL-60, so maybe Pascal, Modula, Ada ...

Deprecatedon Edsger W.Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that might hurt?

Dijkstra (in 1975) strongly dislikes FORTRAN, BASIC, APL, PL/I, and COBOL. What languages did he like? Pascal?

Deprecatedon Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins

Sorry, I see a lot of people don't care for Dvorak, I probably should have put his name in the title. I do think he occasionally has something interesting to say. Simple, clean, fast is why I've used Google and I think that is primarily what has made them a success. If they complicate their applications, will that be a detriment to their business? That's an important question.

Deprecatedon Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins

I don't know if it will bring on ruin, but I certainly found the old image search much more friendly and usable. Both this and page preview seems like "another useless feature that someone thinks improves the experience when it does nothing but show off the fact that someone can code JavaScript or some other display manipulation language." Clean and fast wins the day with me ... Duck Duck Go?

Deprecatedon Programming languages have to break free from the tyranny of ASCII

"Why keep trying to cram an expressive syntax into the straitjacket of the 95 glyphs of ASCII when Unicode has been the new black for most of the past decade?"

Because it is simple and everyone can read it. I don't want to see code that is "greek to me."

Deprecatedon Homemade spacecraft reaches 100,000 ft, films the whole way

Hydrogen is lighter than helium and will always be cheap and plentiful. Helium does have the advantage of being inert.

Deprecatedon Ask HN: What programming languages to teach kids under 12 years old?

"Guido van Robot, or GvR for short, is a programming language and free software application designed to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of programming. GvR runs on Windows, Macintosh, and GNU/Linux, in a variety of languages. It's great in both the classroom and the home as a way of introducing people to the basic concepts of programming."

http://gvr.sourceforge.net/

Then on to python.