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• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-15 16:59:51
  Ouch. Another e-mail address passed on to the spamlords. This time it's the o...
• Posted here by Jon at 2009-03-15 12:48:43
  "Y'all" is a contraction. It contracts "you" and "all": y'all = you all. ...
• Posted here by Varun at 2009-03-14 23:07:33
  The dangers of learning about English from the Irish, illustrated ;)
• Posted here by rohan at 2009-03-14 19:10:25
  [i]Interestingly, in older English, there was a difference between the singul...
• Posted here by Fai at 2009-03-14 18:54:30
  The definition I heard for "y'all" is different. I think it's plural second p...
• Posted here by Varun at 2009-03-14 13:52:52
  [i]To be determined once y'all weigh in with additional options and arguments...
• Posted here by Eric at 2009-03-12 08:17:44
  [i]By induction you could say that we've already discovered everything there ...
• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-12 07:25:56
  I agree wholeheartedly that code must be readable before all else. I'm not di...
• Posted here by Alex McCarthy at 2009-03-12 01:14:27
  "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machi...
• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-11 22:09:23
  I don't buy that argument. By induction you could say that we've already disc...
• Posted here by Eric at 2009-03-11 21:29:10
  I think I see what you're trying to drive at, but I don't believe there's one...
• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-11 20:04:11
  We might not get where you think I'm going, but we should get *somewhere*. No...
• Posted here by Eric at 2009-03-11 10:13:51
  If those are going to be your rules, I'm not sure we're going to get anywhere...
• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-11 09:03:36
  Perhaps I didn't specify "subjective" clearly enough. By "subjective" I mean ...
• Posted here by Eric at 2009-03-11 08:30:23
  OptionC fails to semantically group the arguments with the call, so it's out....
• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-08 02:33:15
  I think there is a difference. If you select from the set of all two-child fa...
• Posted here by rohan at 2009-03-08 01:33:02
  I don't understand, your two formulations sound exactly the same. Selecting ...
• Posted here by rohan at 2009-03-08 01:26:39
  yes, I assume this is what you found out in your post below, but you don't en...
• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-08 01:17:20
  Upon further reflection, I stand by my 1/2 answer for question 2, given the f...
• Posted here by stak at 2009-03-08 00:38:13
  Ah! [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox#Ambiguous_problem_s...