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Space Monkey's wording maybe could have been better, but I understood it as they intended and they appear to be dealing with a customer issue in a very reasonable manner. It's a li…

All his short stories are worth reading. My favourites are this one, Story of Your Life, and Tower of Babylon.

I can't imagine anyone stepping onto an autonomous passenger aircraft for a long time, not until long after cars and smaller commercial aircraft are regularly driven using computer…

Isn't this a lot closer to dwarf fortress?

Since the exploit lets you easily root the install, couldn't zamfoo just patch all his users machines themselves? That would make about as much sense as everything else they've don…

I have a lot of problems with this article. > What there is is a shortage of ultra-elite American-born talent, and Silicon Valley wants to hire the very best in the world. The view…

Agreed. Surprised "Symbian Down By 80%!" didn't make it into the headline.

Agree with both points from the author. The other 2 big ones that I can't get Chrome to do as well as Firefox are Type-Ahead Find, and the default behaviour of the location bar to …

This is the same behaviour as Safari has had by default for years. App developers that depend on 3rd-party cookies should in general already have the work-arounds in place to suppo…

Common in Lua, Ruby, Python. In fact, ruby gives _ a minor amount of special meaning to make it more convenient as a throw-away variable, e.g. it can be specified multiple times in…

How convenient that all the examples use digits in the 1-3 range. This looks painful for normal numbers with a mix of large and small digits. This method always made more sense to …

I like how it's laid out from the most specific tools that are easy to understand and eventually leads to the pocketknives of sed and awk that beginners might not need until they'v…