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Not trying to be pedantic, but isn't every business trying to separate "your money from your wallet in exchange for some product or service?" The only potential difference I could …

Interesting article. It has been a long time since I have worked this "close to the metal." Back when I coded at the machine level, there were no branch predictions performed by th…

This doesn't seem to offer much more than TiVo. Based on Google's 2 minute pitch, much of what they promised is already available on the Gen 3 TiVo: record programs, Netflix, YouTu…

What is remarkable to me is that Southwest Airlines has yet to have a passenger die in an aviation accident. And they carry about 100 million passengers per year these days.

Quantas has never had a _fatal_ crash, in one of their _jets_. Which is different than what you... Or was that just a Rain Man reference?

I guess you are trying to be funny, but I don't see the point. Your first 3 points are clearly false (the 4th is not clearly so). Are you suggesting that there is benefit to the pu…

Agree with all the points on price anchoring... but $499 does not seem cheap to me at all for what you get with the entry level iPad. Maybe I need to watch Jobs presentation?

Agree with others that this seems like a really bad idea. I'll throw another reason into the ring - the "Make terrible Foul calls on him" part. An interview is a two-way process. I…

The "TL;DR" doesn't cover it, but in the chapter the previous commenter references, he does explain why it's a logical fallacy. At the risk of putting something incomplete and/or i…

Perhaps you are not asking for legal advice... but I think the point is that you should be... if want assurance that the answer you receive is correct. You will hear from people wh…

I have only heard that term used in the UK, not in the US. I think that usage of naught/nought for zero in British English is pretty standard. In the US, it can be used to mean "no…

This is why, I believe, that not much is being made out of the end of the decade. That, and perhaps so much emphasis was placed on the start of the century and/or millennium. I'm n…

No, that (removing soda as an option) wouldn't go over well at all. Forget the idea of being offended, the practical matter is that soda is no longer an option... or at least a con…

And if a tree falls in the forest, will anyone hear it? As has been said the goal is destroy the earth. Not to leave no witnesses to confirm if the deed has been done.

I can't decide if the idea is demeaning or really demeaning. After reading in the linked article that the original plans called for the tourists to be "shot" by local kids with a w…

Good article. But... while the article states that Farmville spreads itself "throughout your social network innocently" ... I don't know. It seems that there is a lot of (for lack …

There's legacy software... and then there are coding artifacts from another era. I'm not necessarily saying it's a deal breaker, but if your development tools consist solely of pro…

Yes, a brilliant idea. It seems that much of the design in video games is to trick the player into failing. This was a case of tricking the player into success.

From the article: "while Berkeley charges $5,858 (per year in tuition and fees)." Where did he get that from? The Education Fee for the current fall semester alone is $3,444. Berke…

Right. There problem seems fairly specific to their message, not a general flaw of Twitter.

Your mileage may vary, but I know that in California, the curriculum has gotten a lot more ambitious. When I went to kindergarten, you learned the alphabet, how to count to 12, pla…