devil

Overhead fluorescent lights that I can't turn off are the devil.

#2 is the devil in the details. Clojure, like Common Lisp, is designed to be compiled, and does not in general look things up by name at runtime.

The devil's in the details, but it sounds like a big change from the existing call records program. If Congress passes something along these lines, it'd be a major win.

Why do people always insist on being the devil's advocate on HN? Suppose you went to the supermarket to try and return some spoiled food, and they deny you so you give them a bad Yelp review.

Let me play devil's advocate and not disagree. Sure, the analogy isn't perfect, but what happens if we take the idea seriously?

I've always thought Facebook was from the devil. Anybody that would use my own friends against me to suck me into a network of participating whether I wanted to or not?

Why does education/intelligence/morality not cull the inner devil of some?

I guess you could argue that Zynga employees have been dancing with the devil for the past couple of years. Any Zynga employee I ever talked to was very open about how they aren't really making games.

It may be inconvenient to be restrained by the constitution, but violating it seems the policy equivalent of selling one's soul to the devil. Once you've started down that road, where do you stop?

Com/blog/btl/why-we-dont-trust-devil-mounta... The problem with that is that the FUD then becomes mantra on tech sites, like the whole "DRM in Vista" FUD backlash.

They tend to be a fairly risk averse lot, with many unwilling to trade the devil they know for the devil they don't. They also tend to have a low bullshit tolerance and get worn down quickly with the hassle that recruiting/employment has become.

Every time you hear officials talk about terrorism, replace terrorism with "the devil"." an act of terrorism" == "an act of the devil" The war on terrorism is our witch-hunt.

But engineers know "one overriding idea" never works except in theory, and that the devil is in the details. Linus is not saying that microkernels are architecturally bad.

> To play devil's advocate, what it means is that Comcast has the better business model. After all, that's why Apple and Samsung dominate the cellular industry. That is devil's idiot.

I am not saying piracy is good but it certainly isn't the devil which many law and policy makers make out it is and its nice to see this acknowledged by an EU state.

Yeah, politicians are fucjing scum a lot of the time and lie to the point where its easier to trust the devil himself rather than a politican. That said, totally dismissing the system as one big huge scam is the lazy, cheap, and easy way out of your duty as a citizen.

[From a senior devil, instructing a junior in the temptation of a human:] "Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

> "take other people's innovations and monetize them by polishing things up" The devil is in the polishing up, evidently. Your post is almost scarily indicative of the industry attitude that has allowed Apple to take over to the degree they have.

Teaching kids recursion before iterative constructs might be a good idea on balance, but let me play devil's advocate. Teaching iterative constructs first has one big advantage: while the students are grappling with the novelty of describing a process in the form of code, at least they are describing familiar processes they understand.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And master evn the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.