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This is all very well if you have a friendly, high level scripting language like Ruby, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write a C compiler where functions can take arbitrary…

You really the NHS costs less per-capita in tax than US healthcare?

I think it's nice that it leaves you to draw your own conclusion, and doesn't preach or talk down to you, one way or the other.

Well, getting Linux working on a laptop was more a case of exciting driver wrangling, rather than performance limiting.

I'm really interested in computer architecture. I somehow doubt that there's a company that's going to sit me down and do that straight out of undergrad...

Ugh, what a small minded comment.

I'm one of them. As I just read, Feedly in the only titles or whole document mode is almost no different from Google Reader.

Yeah, whilst he mentions work and school, there's nowhere to just be social with people in that schedule. What do you do if you want to go to the cinema or the theatre, or just the…

I was fairly sure that NT was originally going to be a microkernel, but it ended up being really slow, so they had to push everything into a more monolithic architecture.

I don't know if it's just me, but the use of passive voice really irritated me. Like the author was entirely correct, and there could be no debate.

It makes me wonder how strong the cylinders are. They look quite small, so it seems like with a tool shaped like a "T" with a wide top you'd be able to force a lock open.

I'm fairly sure that each processor designed solely for AI has been a failure. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer By the time you've finished desig…

I've just had my first course in AI, and being interested in games, I was curious to see how the reasonably specific, theoretical techniques we were taught could fit into game desi…

"More retina" is meaningless: the whole pointer is that it's indistinguishable from normal use distance. You can say "higher resolution", or even "retina when held closer to the fa…

It seems to me that most of these aren't controversial at all. I disagree with one of the points supporting "Unit testing won’t help you write good code.", though, where he implies…

To be fair to them, I think this is the first that claims to fix problems specifically to do with the extensions.

Am I the only one who thinks wanting your employees to work at your company "12-16 hours a day" is surely not a mark of a good company. If I worked 16 hours a day, I know I'd not b…

It's interesting that to me, this looks more "3D" than normal street view. I would guess it's the thing about the human brain filling in the detail...

Fair enough then, I've got the wrong end of the stick. I must admit, I didn't really think pure apple households were at all common.

I don't know why he mentions recommending to pure apple households. Surely if every computer (/phone/tablet) in your house is made by apple, you don't really care what anybody says…

Equally, I'll bet that no startup has ever failed because the developers spent too long configuring their editors. Why the hell does it matter so much to you that people enjoy bein…

Goodness, this is depressing. I wonder what on earth this guy would say about my breaks to play foosball? Configuring an editor can be thought of as a similar thing: it can be a fu…

What makes that explicitly bad?

Little low on technical detail. "Works synergistically with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor", honestly! Interesting though: will it be developed into a graphics board, returning to Lara…