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Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn (along with other big tech companies) all produce a lot of academic research that documents the architectures and protocols that they use, along wit…

>As someone who came from a working class background, college has enabled me to move up multiple socio-economic classes. I'm really happy someone brought this up. Where I went to s…

The HN circlejerk in full swing.

I know the guys behind Jarvis, and they are super cool people! Better luck next time guys!

That's an interesting way of looking at things, but I think Sync has a long way to go before it becomes a textbook case for BitTorrent advocates to point to productive usage. I thi…

The El Camino Real BRT proposal seems really interesting but VTA has such a terrible track record of implementing transit options that I'm skeptical when and if it will ever procee…

I hope, perhaps naively, that the positive focus this article gets on HackerNews seeds if not the beginning of change but at least the awareness of just how terrible Silicon Valley…

I think I may have spotted an XSS vulnerability also, but I wasn't sure.

Joel on Software's "Software Inventory"[1] gets a 0.22 rating. I'm a big fan of Joel on Software and am curious as to how this model evaluates "bullshit". 1. http://www.joelonsoftw…

Well I'm not referring to reading/writing from a data store, but actually processing the data in registers and such. Arithmetic operations and that sort of thing.

From my understanding of ARM architecture, ARM cores cannot process heavy data loads in a power-efficient manner, making TDP under heavy server conditions prohibitively high. Am I …

Tesla vs. Edison, the age old fight of the Manager vs. the Engineer. As much as Edison seems to be vilified by The Oatmeal, I can't help but think that many of the things Edison di…

Am I the only one visualizing a Lisp REPL into the rover right now?

At first I thought this sort of thing would be perfect for a student market, but then I looked at the price. The price point is just too high. I'd love to see something cheaper tar…