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You forget when Herc went and grabbed the portable mic from the spy store and stuck it in a tennis ball. Or when they stuck the video camera in the park and got it stolen. It's pre…

Haven't you guys ever seen The Wire? Is this seriously a surprise to anyone?

At some point every piece of technology that we use was impossible. It's very easy to sit on the hilltop and say "it's not possible". What's not easy is climbing the hill anyways a…

I think it's a little naive to "give up" on a language early on, but on the same note, I've walked away from several for periods of time because they lacked the maturity I needed. …

This thread makes it seem like the general opinion is that an automatically generated news feed would be better. It wouldn't. Not for end users anyways. It would be a marketer's dr…

Per the article there is one coal power plant still active. It's run by Argus (the sometimes good, sometimes bad company from Arrow) near San Bernadino.

Pulling the plane out of a stall used to be a part of basic training required for your license. That doesn't go on anymore?

I second this sentiment. Especially someone in a biz-dev role. Can you imagine if he crossed the line like this with a customer? It's not something a budding business wants to ever…

I'm an emacs evangelist and I'll use Eclipse or IntelliJ for Java. I have half a mind to just use a windows VM for visual studio because I think it's a great Python IDE. But then t…

I would agree that the free exchange of ideas is the great promise of the internet, but I disagree that Facebook or any high traffic website has any responsibility to blindly post …

This seems like a story built specifically for a segment on Fox News where the newscasters feign shock and horror that their news topics aren't being covered by "mainstream media".…

As a middle aged computer scientist and emacs evangelist, I had to laugh pretty hard at this one. I hadn't actually heard that one before.

The odds are better than 1 in 6. What you are suggesting is a system that over and over again has proven to create poverty and destroy innovation.

Don't forget cut and sed.

I thought it was pretty clear from the beginning. But I have to say it's pretty cool to see this response. Shouldering responsibility and admitting fault is something that most peo…

In Santa Clara county the odds of going from the lowest of income earners to the highest are better than anywhere else in the world. There's nepotism all over silicon valley, but t…

If you're on the board of directors for a billion dollar search engine, who do you hire as CEO? A guy in a cubicle, or a Stanford grad who was employee #20 at google that spent a c…

The pool of people who are capable of leading a company the size of Yahoo isn't that big to begin with. Add to that the fact that Yahoo had a recent serial history of hiring then f…

I find the part about taking breaks actually increasing productivity interesting. Years and years ago, I worked as a blackjack dealer. We had 20 minute breaks every hour. It seemed…

This is good. That's all I have in me.

This is more a sign of the power of the media than anything else. The media is looking for a story. There's very little that's compelling out there. Terrorism keeps popping up beca…

But what is it's Weissman score?

Software developers are not dancing monkeys and should not be treated as such. Do software sales reps get told to "sell me this shampoo" during an interview? Do they have to whiteb…

Breathalyzers aren't nearly as accurate as they are purported to be and the whole justice system just accepts it because drunk drivers are bad. The justice system isn't a science s…

These kinds of "features" are a problem for open source, and I don't know that they are a good idea in general. It's nice to know how and where your software is being used, but in …