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"And yet a great many of our institutions are set up to discourage, distract, destroy and derail the making of anything." This may not be obvious to everyone writing software. Or m…

Will companies now save more money on toner? Is there anyone selling a reverse-engineered, refillable pod for the coffee machines that only accept pre-filled proprietary ones? Do t…

My comment had a handful of upvotes over the holiday weekend then has been downvoted as the CS grads return to work. I have long believed the weekend HN crowd is wiser than the wee…

Difference between 1. computer scientists who are by nature of their CS training able to write high quality software and 2. the presence of CS subject matter in programs or the rol…

In fact, I am an unusual case and I do not consciously choose to use those Google, Microsoft or Apple offerings, nor do I value and rely on the ones I occasionally come in contact …

To an audience of CS majors this will probably sound like trolling but honestly I have never used any software written by a "computer scientist" that I came to value and rely on --…

"The internet is a copy machine." This truth is often hidden by some given abstraction. (file, save, download, streaming, etc.) Businesses have been built on such abstractions. Suc…

Since commenters are weighing in on packet construction libraries, what say you in re: libnet1.0/libnet1.1? libnet-based modular utilities that can be used in shell scripts: http:/…

What if the user wants to run a different OS besides Linux? Seems like the only option is Linux? No Plan9, BSD, etc.?