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After reading Ridiculous Fish's version of this ( http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/The-app-that-was-fixed-... ), I use a mental version of Dr. House. It's worked out a couple o…

I don't know whether one should move one's company to STL, but it is neither culturally nor socially barren. I moved to town in 2009 and my experience is quite different from palis…

Glad to help inform! It's generally accurate to say that basic cable isn't _switched_ digital, which isn't the same as saying it's analog. It's not accurate to say that basic cable…

FWIW, basic cable isn't analog (well, some channels can be delivered in analog), so your points based on that line of thinking don't follow. It's typically not switched-digital bec…

Your edit isn't quite correct - if 100 people in the same building (service group) are watching the same TV channel, there's no bandwidth savings if they're all getting an individu…

They do eventually pay for themselves ($13 per month! Geez.), but they (a) cost more than you might think to begin with, (b) require a lengthy setup and provisioning process that i…

Yeah - the idea is that the cablecos could avoid sending a truck to activate or remove services. But this isn't mentioned in the article, and the article is actively wrong in the w…

I work in the industry, and this article is quite... misinforming. For one, the sentence "Getting rid of QAM isn't a bad idea in the long run" is crazy. QAM is a general-purpose mo…

I am an electrical engineer. I used this site as a reference all throughout my schooling. Yes, it's incomplete, but it's a great resource nonetheless.

Interesting - I had an original Pre, and could go weeks without having to reboot it. Contrast with my new Nexus S, which I find I need to give a kick every few days. I did have few…

I really like Google+ also, but without all my Facebook friends (I deactivated Facebook after they overwrote my privacy settings) it's not nearly as useful or fun. I'm trying a new…

http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/urge-congress-stop-sopa

Likewise. I side with the ACLU on Citizens United - i.e. that the Supreme Court decided it correctly. You can rationally be displeased what you expect the outcome of the case to be…

I used to work for Sprint. I never got that Dan Hesse had strong empathy for customers, but that he knew that good customer service was going to be good for investors in the medium…

I would guess that lots of FiOS customers also subscribe to Netflix (and maybe don't understand the FiOS streaming interface). So why not give in and try to capture that?

The graphic brought up these same kind of questions for me. If you're a band with a new album out, how much from that album should you play? Would you rather boost demand for it, o…

Firefox isn't doomed. Not only is it still a good web browser that many (myself included) continue to use daily, inertia will keep it installed on millions of PCs. As far as I know…

I don't doubt that the skills that make a good system admin are distinct from those that make a good engineer. I do doubt that the people making and enforcing IT policies that, e.g…

A lot of my problems with IT departments would be solved if the IT folks recognized that people with degrees in computer engineering and computer science tend to be able to take ca…

In my experience, having an e-mail hit your inbox doesn't necessarily mean that you're the most important recipient. At work I may be on the CC list for a number of ongoing e-mail …

In 2005, Reason magazine had an excellent discussion with Milton Friedman, John Mackey (Whole Foods), and T.J. Rodgers (Cypress Semiconductors) that is relevant to this discussion …

othermaciej likely read Megan McArdle's article at ( http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2011/10/if-you-fav... ). It's a good article. Although RyanMcGreal didn't refer speci…

I'm not a big fan of Unity, but I'm sympathetic to Shuttleworth in this matter. After following open source projects for some years, it seems they're all eventually accused of some…

My sister complained to me about the "hanging" Firefox problem, and disabling stupid extensions fixed it right up. Firefox really needs to have a profile-cleaning mechanism. These …

I'm saying the engineers may know it, but their bosses _do not_.