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Can somebody explain why a square root is also considered a flop? Surely that involves more work than the other four operations the article listed. Is there some hardware algorithm…

I thought the Latin phrase was "post hoc ergo propter hoc". Is "cum hoc..." also used?

I think people are misunderstanding this; it's pedagogical. From the link: 'I want to use it as an exercise for you in finding hacks, attacks, defects, and bugs by going through "K…

Ah, I'd read that as "does not equal", rather than "implies". Thanks pilgrim689.

Sorry, maybe I'm misreading your notation, but are you saying that modus tollens isn't a valid argument? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_tollens

Note that Joel's company Fog Creek software actually did develop their flagship product, FogBugz, on their own compiler: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html

A previous mention on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918368 In at least two articles about the X-37B, I've read about it changing orbit. But isn't that an energetically e…

I think you're missing the post's author's point. He isn't saying "after wars the DJIA goes up", he's saying "after periods of inflation, the DJIA goes up" (see the title of the gr…

The Wired article says the "X-37 periodically changes orbits". However, the linked article from the CS Monitor ( http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0824/Secret-Air-Force-... ) o…

I liked the plots they had in that chapter. Did they mention elsewhere how to generate plots like that? Would something like gnuplot work? Edit: conciseness.