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My theory would be that choosing a non-existing word for the name instantly created a brand, whereas before it had just been an anonymous app with a name that referred to what it d…

Who writes the drivers for this software that 'Just Works'? Over and over again I see commercial OS vendors implicitly credited for writing drivers that were actually supplied by t…

Any language that is only pure is about as useful as write-only memory. Haskell was historically pure and had side effects added as a way to interact with the world. The language e…

"Design patterns" has become an ambiguous term. There are a lot of design patterns for object oriented programming that were created specifically to overcome structural flaws in C+…

I think they are supposed to represent 'aspects' of your life.

The value comes from eliminating electromagnetic crosstalk and reducing the amount of PCB real estate dedicated to those buses. A single line of fiber can outperform several lines …

I find it interesting that he compares the value of phone apps to the value of the mobile web. There are thousands more apps than the user can process, and the majority of apps tha…

Which could be construed as a synonym for hardened.

I'm not sure that the Inception on Fisher Jr. ever actually occurs, as I doubt that Cobb ever escaped Saito's dream from the beginning. It is suggested in the movie that the subcon…

It does speak volumes, but not about her site or her blog post.

The one thing I've learned in the years I've worked with Perl is to never underestimate the ability of the Perl community to achieve the incredible. To compare the performance of t…

"What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?" -- Dream, From Neil Gaiman's Sandman So yes, take care when choosing your dreams.