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All social media sites are susceptible to this simple hack: 1. Set up IRC channel. 2. Wait for friends to arrive. 3. When there's ten, post new content to social media. 4. Post lin…

I consider it an impressive contribution, and I checked it out a year ago. It lacks many of the refined features that happen with a paid staff, but art, sound and gameplay are amaz…

> Ruby will be the new PHP It's already the new PHP. If someone starts as a nerd, they gravitate toward other languages (Go, Perl, Python); if they're an art student, it's Ruby. I'…

Some things are eternal because they're useful in just about every situation. Other things are trends. C'est la vie.

Either that, or there's a sea change coming.

I found David Brooks' book "Bobos" to be very informative about our new elites. http://www.amerika.org/books/bobos-in-paradise-the-new-upper...

Or... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/

I agree and think that much of that line-noise style was prompted by the wild west nature of the web at the time, more than Perl itself.

Good. Anything to make people who aren't breaking the rules (proxies for "doing stupid stuff") pay less.

Shoot him in the face. Otherwise, there's no incentive for anyone to do the right thing. Many things need to be kept secrets. (And yes, I know this will infuriate many of you who w…

Perl is the ultimate hacker's language. It was for the 90s and 00s what Microsoft BASIC was to the 1980s. However, I think it's also coming back. Most of the "inefficiencies" it go…

The Perl culture is very much "Wild West" meets the race to space. It's a language for people who are comfortable enough around theory that they don't need syntax to force them to …

Still the best all-purpose language. Trend languages like Ruby and Haskell are flashes in the pan.

"We are not inherently better than those people, we're just luckier about our surroundings." It seems to me people choose their own actions. When enough choose badly, the society a…

I support the NSA monitoring. No, not a troll. At this point, the USA has a ton of enemies. Filtering through emails, phone, etc. is a good way to catch these. We need to give law …

It can't end soon enough. The open internet meant that anyone with TCP/IP could see all content. Facebook put everything behind a wall that was both effective at blocking open acce…

You know Dot Com Bubble 3.0 is about to burst when some site gets funding for interpreting rap lyrics.

The truth is often hidden in plain sight simply because most will never go looking for it.

These are coffee table books about interesting/ironic details of our world, not any actual reshaping. I used to read such books in the pursuit of being an "intellectual," then pick…

"Working hard" is confusing the tool for the objective. Are they working effectively? That last word is the important one. It implies a connection between the work and reality. Oth…

Modern media is a good way to make yourself neurotic. Fear sells and misery sells. Everything else is not of interest.

"When an organized group of people uses force to take your belongings, leveraging tactics of fear for political ends, isn't that firmly within the definition of terrorism?" No, tha…

My kids are growing up on classical music. It helps accelerate this process.

The scholar-gentry are false elites who have no idea how disconnected from reality they are. Source: former one, fall from grace, mostly by choice.