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Your premises are flawed. Human brain power is not an additive substance. So 1000 brains are in no sense of the term 1000 times more powerful than one brain. Crowds don't actually …

Cool! This will be awesome for implementing feature on cross-platform devices. I can definitely see a use case for standardizing mailing across, e.g., several different mobile plat…

I learned a lot from this, thanks for posting. Mostly I learned how rusty my C skills have gotten in the years since I last used them. Maybe time to bust out my K&R again.

I wonder if there's a scientific paper equivalent to Betteridge's Law of Headlines: If a headline ends with a question mark, then the answer is "no".

It looks like you have some room to refine your searching / filtering. I'm in the Seattle area and it's picking up some noticeable noise. e.g.: "Tacoma cannery property to be repos…

Awesome work! Do you have plans to expand the data source beyond Twitter? Maybe with filters for users to select source(s)?

"...a few minutes..." You obviously read a hell of a lot faster than I do.

I agree with skyo and aphexairlines. I've found Amazon a fantastic place to work and am, frankly, baffled by the flak it's taking here in the comments. My experience at Amazon has …

Speaking as someone who has had to maintain code written by someone who "learned" from these books, I completely agree. What was there was certainly C++ in a purely linguistic sens…

You attack Libertarianism on the grounds that it has adherents that disagree widely on several topics. So does that mean that if I found some Objectivists that disagreed on points …

Awesome feature. Just in checking it out, I found several excellent questions that it would never have occurred to me to ask. Thanks for implementing this!

I'm not sure there's anything one could say about focus/productivity that's particular to software engineers. When it comes right down to it, the sort of work we do is susceptible …

This is an awesome take on the VC game. I imagine it's not the only opinion, however. The metaphor he sets up with regards to customers and shareholders could also be twisted (and …

Consider how much real achievement we would see if all the motivated hackers put down WoW and started up their development environment of choice. But there's a lot of truth to the …

It seems to me that this essay is based on a strained analogy and a whole bunch of convenient equivocation. His whole "achievement" link to video games seems to be a largely rhetor…

Interesting! I did not know that. Thanks for the explanation and link.

What was the distinction there? As far as I understand things, "cabinet maker" would be a proper subset of "carpenter".

An interesting idea. This would put it in the same class as a remarkably large number of emergent "senses" like our sense of distance or of weight, which are both effected by ancil…

Which isn't too surprising since perception constructed by the brain. :) Touché. I really should have said something like "the subconscious can mess..." or "the lizard brain can me…

So, out of curiosity, down-voted because it wasn't funny, or because jokes aren't encouraged?

Interesting. So, out of curiosity, are you just not particular about projects? If you had to choose between two arbitrary projects to work on, on what criteria would you base your …

It's largely been my experience. The best programmers and the best hackers I know are all more passionate about what they're DOING with code rather than the minutiae of code itself…

What's even more interesting is how much of the image you can remove while still maintaining the illusion. Block out almost all the image except for squares A and B and just a VERY…

Agreed. Also, none of the coders I know are passionate about programming . Rather, they're passionate about making cool stuff. As the saying goes, programming is not a what, but a …

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