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Not a UX person.

There's a threshold after which something is so good it's worth criticizing?

Nah.

  (prog ()
   10 (print "hello") 
   20 (go 10))

A typo such as misspelling "principal".

Buy a yellow rubber duck. Describe to it where you've gotten stuck.

!so narrows your Duck Duck Go search to Stack Overflow.

In Norwegian, it's "stormaskin" for mainframe.

The IMG tag showed up before there was a Netscape.

You know that venture giant, the 'A' in A16Z? Long time ago he was marca without the initial 'p', maintained an emacs clone called Epoch, and also hacked away on a web browser called Mosaic:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

triangle, how did you "upgrade" the MBP you mentioned? Once ram is at 3 gig and the hard drive is SSD, is there anything else to do?

In the Norwegian market, iZettle gave away (price under a euro) atm card readers that connect to iOS or android devices, with an app that made it easy to open a lemonade stall or the like. Adding new items to sell was great fun -- place espresso/bagel/muffin on table, take picture, decide on price, and there it was, in the "shop" on my phone.

Made me wonder about the steps from this shop instantiated locally on my iPhone to a shopify-like online presence. What are the hurdles to mirroring the local instance of the shop to something served at [yournamehere].mall.izettle.com ?

My previous laptop was a late 2006 15" macbook pro, so I find my 12" Macbook to be fast enough.

I hope for a suitable external display some day.

For a starting point, see http://netzhansa.blogspot.no/2012/02/traces-of-awesomeness.h... , where Hans Hübner teaches how to do dynamically selective tracing with SBCL.

Maybe it was laziness, but till now I've been expecting good things from companies backed by YCombinator. Ekjp and kn0thing are eroding the brand value of YC.

MY 2 cents, seen from far away.

Long time ago, back in 1992, Kai Krause was famous in desktop publishing for his software "Kai's Power Tools" - a set of plugins for Adobe Photoshop. Kai is one of the designers of this map.

apply-macro-to-region-lines does not need macros to put the cursor on the next line.

From the manual: The command C-x C-k r (apply-macro-to-region-lines) repeats the last defined keyboard macro on each line that begins in the region. It does this line by line, by moving point to the beginning of the line and then executing the macro.

Try pasting telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl into the location field of your browser.

Sterling says: "Sun were the guys who built JavaScript, if you recall."

I don't recall that. Wasn't javascript made by Brendan Eich at Netscape?

DHH?

M.S. from Norwegian School of Business Administration and Economics (NHH), M.A. in linguistics, University of Oslo, currently programming CL in a telco.