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Up to a point, I agree. Beyond that point it becomes churn and reinvention for the sake of itself.

Another year, another wheel reinvented.

On the downside, there's less cost for being stupid which I think is probably bad for influencing cause-effect considerations, even though one effect is potentially death. When I w…

I don't think that's what he said or meant.

Find a place where you can actually download them and do so. You're still drawing from the cloud, albeit just not dynamically.

I love the trend of "Let's fix technology. With more technology!" The constant one-up-manship and the preposterous amount of options of all these tech companies makes me yearn for …

I liked the "oh, I probably shouldn't have been texting right there" look on the girl's face and the fact that her brother laughed at her for it. I once owned a 1968 GTX with 635 H…

This is completely hilarious. Kudos!

The part with the kids was the best.

Except that (probably) no one predicts where bullets go for a living whereas, for weather reporters (or, more accurately, meteorologists), it's their job. I theorize if we started …

What most people call talent is just the byproduct of motivation and hard work.

Just watch "Sneakers" instead of that drivel of a movie.

Here, you'll enjoy this, on me. Apogee's old catalogs and all their mailing materials : https://www.scribd.com/doc/134559074/Apogee-Catalog There's a bunch of other id and Carmack …

I installed Doom on my high school computers and carefully hid it so the technology department (who were clueless) couldn't find it (by putting it in a renamed subdir in the Window…

There is, read by Whil Wheaton. Whether the 2nd part is good or bad, is another matter : http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...

Just remove voting altogether and let the strength of the argument/statement prevail rather than allow a mechanism that rewards groupthink.

"AI : A Modern Approach" is considered the high-level standard text on the subject. It's coverage is fairly broad, but it prioritizes the idea of an AI "agent"; an autonomous "thin…

Their parents didn't hug them enough.

What are you talking about? Many countries have gone "first" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline#Decline_by_n...

This doesn't mirror my own experience. Typically the 5-star reviews often fall into the category "worked great for me" or fanboyism, but it's generally ambiguous how extensive of a…

Of note to anyone mentioning "Masters of Doom" are the following two items : - Apogee Catalog from this time period : http://www.scribd.com/doc/134559074/Apogee-Catalog and - The B…