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I can't find the link, but I know the openSuSE build service has a repository with the latest Firefox for SuSE because I use it on my computer.

I would like some way to "flag" a dead post for revival. Every so often I see a dead link that in my opinion should not be dead. You could use the flag link on dead posts for this.

Could you provide a link to the coding test? It sounds interesting.

Maybe that both juggling and playing the piano require good coordination?

I clicked "Don't play piano, right handed, juggle" because I have never had a piano lesson (okay, maybe exactly one). When I took a piano audition taken by all applying music majors, however, I was told, "You play the piano better than anyone yet who has never had piano lessons." It has something to do with having a piano in the house for the past 10 years (my sister plays it).

Look at http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html for a discussion of computer programming as both art and science.

There's another (outdated) Arc repl at http://jonathan.tang.name/files/arclite/)

A good tutorial on Python Unicode is http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html. It's also my favorite explanation of Unicode in general.

BTW, you can get italics by surrounding your text with asterisks (*).

I've been using Firefox with Flash disabled for the last couple of days because of the obnoxious flash adds on m-w.com. I keep being surprised by how widely Flash is used.

Why wasn't the prior art discovered when the patent was granted?

My apologies. I went to bed shortly after posting this.

Did you did consult the following list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Caribbea...?

Given that Google does rewrite the code of many companies that they buy, it wouldn't be surprising if they did rewrite the ITA code.

This reminds me of this article about the iPad and Steve Wozniak: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247922

Cincom Smalltalk's Web Velocity seems to have something like what you describe. See http://vimeo.com/groups/webvelocity/videos/6156626 at about 1:17

I wish more people knew Latin, too. My interest in languages is one of the reasons both that I am here and that I have a φ in my username. I posted the translation because I thought doing so would teach the most people a useful Latin phrase which I didn't know.

Perhaps I should have posted a link to the Wikipedia article instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes

[edit: added first two sentences]

Translation: Who will guard the guards? The people.

Look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752262.

It's up for me. In the future, take a look at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/.

For a hilarious usage of this stuff, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

There is. After you flag something, the link that used to say "flag" changes to "unflag".

For a tutorial on solving sudoku using Dancing Links, see this tutorial: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~xche635/dlx_sodoku/

Have you looked at Listia? http://www.listia.com/

An open-source Smalltalk implementation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046516

  Web apps in Objective C --- the second-least safe programming language
  on the market. Oh please, oh please, build your next huge application
  in this. College tuition for my kids is freaking me out.

This reminds me of John Harrison's invention of the chronometer. In both cases, a modest Briton brought a solution to an "impossible problem" to the officials, who rejected it because it was too simple to be correct.

(John Harrison also had the problem that one of the officials came up with a rival, astronomical solution before his was accepted.)

I find both Google and searchyc useful. When one doesn't find what I'm looking for, the other usually does.

This and the post by silentbicycle above [1] make the point that GNOME abandoned the Unix philosophy to provide a more Windows-style monolithic GUI program.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059853

Why is Objective-C so unsafe? From what little I know about it, I see no reason why it should be less safe than, say, Smalltalk.

If Objective-C is the second-least safe language, what is the least safe language?