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There are many, many people who use C and rarely or never use C++. Most embedded work is done in C, the Linux and BSD kernels are in C, etc. There are a variety of reasons for this…

Are there any articles out there detailing this? I've never heard this part of either story.

I don't know any data scientists, or even what one is really, but here's the EE explanation: the Fourier transform maps a signal in the time domain to the frequency domain, and vic…

I've gotten fed up with the UI changes that been made to (inflicted on) gmail in the last two years or so; new compose is the last straw. What are some good alternatives? SSL, non-…

Great analysis, although I'm curious how the idea that doing a bunch of 64 bit ops in order to accomplish byte arithmetic came about to begin with - was the function in question no…

"Being professional" is not about all agreeing to the same ideology, but consistent standards of behavior are the core of professionalism. If we cannot agree that screaming "SHUT T…

On the one hand, OCaml is a very interesting language and I welcome a good book about it in the vein of Real World Haskell. On the other hand, it is the height of treason for O'Rei…

I don't think that's an entirely fair take on the situation. There was a great series of comments on Russ Cox's blog in late 2009[1] by longtime Boost contributor and general brain…

> I mean when you get a rate that high, it seems like it must be just a relatively heavy element, and a metal, like Gold, and relatively unreactive (just carrying ions and such). T…

It would be easier (for me at least, but I suspect others as well) to take Bitcoins seriously if the backbone of the Bitcoin economy weren't the Magic The Gathering Online Exchange…

Organometallic reagents like dimethyl mercury have their own entry in the same series of blog posts as the OP, cf. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/23/things_i_won...

Real Software Engineering, by Glenn Vandenburg. Not a perfect talk (especially the conclusions IMO), but a very good exploration of how some of the common beliefs in the field of s…

The 10x figure is pseudoknowledge - something we "all know" that isn't actually true (or that at least we have no good reason to believe to be true), cf. http://vimeo.com/9270320 .…

I'm interested in what the accuracy, stability and precision of this barometer are. For the use case that they were put into that phone (and the price point it implies), I am unsur…

I hate sites that intercept '/', which I normally use for searching text on a page. If I wanted to use your search function I'd click in the box. I'm looking at you, Gmail and Bitb…

Yes, hate the player. Unethical behavior does not become fine because it is popular. Stop norming abuse.

This intentional use of the definition of a word from one context in another context is equivocation, a form of dishonesty that it makes little sense to tolerate.

In the domain I work in (firmware for digital instruments and industrial systems), knowing assembly isn't necessary for performance reasons so much as for sanity reasons - a lot of…

I see that the equity stake that YC gets is variable from 2-10%, presumably based on valuation. I had thought it was a fixed 7% stake; is this new or had I not noticed it before?

This is a slightly worse version of the behavior that prompted JWZ's first rant about bugtrackers in open source software (cf. http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ).

How do you consider Lebanon to be homogeneous? The religious divide there is so deep and long-standing that it is enshrined in law, with power in the government divided along confe…

Harvard is not going to bake ethics or morals into students during their time there, try or not. Additionally, your blithe assertion that "but everyone was doing it!" is a valid de…

The graph shows a 1000-ish percent increase in tuition since 1978, the 439% number later on the page is the cost (not tuition) increase since 1982. Measuring different things from …

This is entirely wrong. North Carolina and later Pennsylvania were nailed years ago for similarly unconstitutional schemes favoring in-state companies and had to similarly solve th…

That's a difference of $450, not $4,500.