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Morozov is tapping into a current of thought that is becoming increasingly popular. It's the same sentiment that has triggered a backlash against TED talks - a backlash against att…

Supernodes also have the ability to relay the VoIP traffic if the callers cannot form a P2p connection. More info here http://saikat.guha.cc/pub/iptps06-skype/ It would be a small …

It's a sad day. I came across a passage recently from The Tao of Programming which reminded me of Dennis Ritchie. "The programmers of old were mysterious and profound. We cannot fa…

http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch03.html From end-note 2. "Stallman considers himself afflicted, to some degree, by autism: a condition that, he says, makes it difficult for h…

It's worth remembering that even Stallman himself admits he is mildly autistic. Autism is often characterized by black and white thinking and lack of empathy towards others - both …

They may be world-renowned scientists and philosophers but none says anything that you wouldn't get by asking a random bunch of people on the street the same question. They also se…

Some of these conversations strike me as a very Western view-point of religion, God and theism/atheism. Religions like Buddhism, Jainism, Advaita Vedanta, Taoism and many eastern '…

> Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher that comes to mind? That is a question that is as difficult to answer as "Who is the greatest contemporary scientist?" Some candidate…

I assume since no-one has mentioned Google+ in connection with Google App Engine, that is not built on top of it. Sure Google+ probably shares infrastructure with GAE, but you woul…

One of the cool things about using a functional language for web development is the potential to use continuation-passing style (CPS) to make http look like a stateful protocol, wh…

You can easily transfer your H1-B to another company (the one you hold equity in), it is not a big deal. What you can't do is work for both companies at the same time.

Yes you can but you will need to get your H1-B transferred to the new company. Non US-citizens can hold equity in C-Corps (not S-Corps), but that by itself does not allow you to li…