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His newer books (Jennifer Morgue etc) are better stories; with some of the hell of modern office work.

I have no programming talent (nor money). So if anyone wants to create a "zero player" like game (see, for example, progress quest) but for simulation racing games it'd be awesome.…

It was analogy / metaphor. All the superpowers == all the big companies (Google, Apple, Samsung, etc) routinely fling nukes == lots of patent litigation.

disturbing that so many HN readers install software without knowing what it does, or how it does it. Having sad that, the docs could be a bit more clear. For example, Spotify says …

"I would have much less of a problem with rapid release if they'd stop changing major version numbers" They're going to stop having any version numbers.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=PROLOG%2CLISP%2CF... poorly formed google ngram query is poorly formed.

Asus tried Linux on the EEE PC. They unfortunately tried an odd version called Xandros, with some modifications and a cut down IceWM theme. I'm not sure they enjoyed supporting it.…

Hey, the mouse "just works!". Out of the box! Linux is ready. It's always disappointing in articles like these not to see 200 corporate workers trying Libre Office (which would be …

Crunchbang isn't great. It breaks regularly; it's pretty big; and there are weird dependency problems. Compare it to distributions like Slitaz or Tiny Core, both of which really ar…

You don't remember all the cardboard keyboard overlays that used to ship with software?

I like this idea. How does multiplayer work with turn based games? Each player just has to wait for the other to finish?

Markov Chain toy - grab some text as input (a file or a text box); allow the user to select whether they want to operate on words or letters; allow the user to select what 'depth' …

A zero-player game (see also Progress Quest) but instead of dungeon crawling try Car race simulation. A ZPG version of gran turismo or forza would be awesome. The player would star…

In the UK: agricultural workers either get minimum wage or are exploited migrant workers getting illegally low wages and illegal working conditions. People who look after the elder…

A separate USB number pad with a good mouse and a compact keyboard? Or maybe an excellent trackpad and no mouse?