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Linus has earned the right to that tone, care about Linux or not. Now when some unknown emulates it, that's the time to take note (and ignore that person ever after).

I don't call myself an audiophile but I have owned a lot of different headphones up to the $1500 mark. There's no need (and no way) for double-blind studies here. We're not talking…

You definitely had a bug. I shipped a single-threaded A* for 3GS and up with maps created from maps of approximately 500x500 locations. It started out completely broken, storing wa…

L - a swirly potion If you spelled it "grey", you didn't get your wish!

Did you look at Nethack? Certain monsters have set loot. Dwarves have a high chance of carrying a pickaxe, noble variants have a high chance of having dwarven mithril, shield, iron…

As in "the mousetrap". As in "the disingenuous reply". A class rather than an instance, but you knew that.

Oh, you weren't talking about Nathan Mhyrvold and the oven? OK then. FYI, patent trolls usually haven't invented the thing they hold a patent for.

No it isn't, but I would expect him to have patented anything he could get away with and have his shell companies lying in wait for anyone who builds an infringing oven. https://ww…

The only renaming to avoid detection I knew of was when fast modems were becoming a commoditized but FTP had started taking over as a transfer mechanism. Did you ever trawl through…

And if you didn't have 16550AFN serial and a USR Courier HST your 0-day was likely to turn into a 3-day... I remember taking advantage of call waiting tones to dump friends offline…

Did you read the article? Z-machine wasn't the cause of the graphical games failure. By the time Infocom ventured into graphics the games division was hamstrung by a focus on the b…

Why stop at having an office merely "open"? Hot desking is the new thing - it's nothing to do with cost saving, it's all about "flexibility". Except that your organisation might al…

What's your job? Do you have a greater need to concentrate or to socialize? Not criticising, just asking. I need to be able to go talk to people only sometimes but I need to go to …

"Gleevec became a breakthrough, helping almost every patient with a particular rare blood cancer, chronic myelogenous leukemia. Patients stay on it for years, and it is so valuable…

But was the iOS version ever fixed? I got it, played up to the point where the giant suit of armor is sending electricity down the tiled floor at Dirk who has to jump several times…

They are no longer legal currency but are issued on the The Bank of San Serriffe (address:Thirty Point, Caissa Inferiore, San Serriffe, Pincus). The reason for the change: http://w…

In the Q&A Knuth mentions TAOCP conversion to ebook several times - I did a quick search and found only millions of pirate sites. Does anyone know the legitimate source where the e…

I could see it working with the best recruiters, like the few I mentioned. They call every six months or so, ask how things are going and chat about technology, that's fine with me…

I am not 100% sure why recruiters are still tolerated in technology positions. It's time for the model to change - maybe engineers should have agents? If an engineer chooses to use…

Yes, it is that much more difficult for people whose primary goal is doing stuff other than tweaking their computer. And as others have mentioned, nothing gets you more battery lif…

I'm surprised, thought Linux of some kind would have been most popular.

Yeah, bought my first car from a town about an hour from my home, a manual car. On the drive home I learned to drive a manual. That weekend I learned to change a clutch :-)

This hand-wave over designer's inability to build enough slack to deal with Adobe's failure into every project is a combination of unsubtle trolling and egregious sociopathy.

If you're one of those, I highly recommend Pixelmator - download at pixelmator.com. My choice for a really simple, easy image editor is Acorn from Flying Meat Software - http://fly…

And this is why proprietary lock-in is wrong. Adobe seem to do all they can to screw up the computer their software is installed on. On a Mac you are supposed to drag an app into t…