Translates literally as “call of the void”. The urge some people get to jump from high places when they encounter them, for example when close to the edge of cliffs.
Comes with bottles of blood compatible with the President%u2019s blood
The parser had to fit entirely within a 16-bit address space (alongside the rest of the program) so the syntax was designed to allow that.
Certain MTAs (other than sendmail) do not return immediately on RCPT of undeliverable addresses and exacerbate the spam backscatter problem.
it was a simplification of X.500, the directory service from OSI whose X.400 was a competing standard to SMTP (and also used ASN.1)
@,!, and : each had different right/left associativities which made them a real pain to parse and rewrite properly.
A book was published called “!%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks” was published
as a side project by an INGRES developer in 1979 to connect to Arpanet.
for the last ten years, it’s actually been decreasing in offices.
previously financial speculators historically accounted for about 30 percent of oil contracts. This is a large part of why oil prices are rising.
Makes random-access writes potentially much slower than sequential append-only. (the drive does internal garbage collection to handle write-leveling and fragmentation).
females flies lose their interest in sex for a time because of the influence of a substance known as sex peptide, which males inject along with sperm at the culmination of the encounter. This causes them to reject the advances of the male flies.
Chinese microbloggers use code to criticize party leaders.
“Beijing Fashion Week” is a thinly veiled, sarcastic commentary on the Communist Party’s annual summit
people who comply with their doctors’ orders when given a prescription are different and healthier than people who don’t.
Enki explains that Enlil is unfair to punish the guiltless
If you convert a recursive function to fixed-point with a Y-combinator, you can then add memoization to the combinator.
At it’s core, the lambda calculus contains only: variable references, single-argument anonymous functions and function calls.
a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal
the passage through which liquid material is introduced into a mold. Eg, the bits holding the pieces in a plastic model kit.