"When I was at uni some 10 years back now, I remember one of my lecturers telling me not to make variable names too long because you would get "pain in your fingers"." ...full story at digg
from digg on Mon, Jul 28 2008
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| 23 Jul 08 |
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New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed » slashdot Ponca City, We love you writes "A gun that fires variable-speed bullets that can be set to kill, wound, or just inflict a bruise is being built by a Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio that makes toy rockets powered by burning hydrogen... |
| 12 Sep 08 |
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Aliens might have sent messages by tweaking variable stars » digg If we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization, would we necessarily realize it? SETI has long scanned the skies for evidence of alien transmissions, while others have proposed a hunt for physical artifacts sent by our distant neighbors.... |
| 12 Sep 08 |
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'Galactic internet' proposed » digg Aliens might have sent messages by tweaking variable stars. |
| 05 Oct 08 |
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Bank buyouts raise question of names for venues » digg Performance venues love blockbuster events, but not the kind that are currently affecting their naming-rights partners. The stunning takeovers of big banks like Washington Mutual (WaMu) and Wachovia are forcing venues with long-term naming-rights deals... |
| 20 Aug 08 |
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Lords call for variable VAT to cut landfill » the register (uk) Stop picking on householders The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has said the government should do more to encourage businesses to recycle and reduce waste and take the focus away from householders.… |