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One really interesting idea related to the passing of the Turing test and formation of relationships between humans and AIs: Our relationships with other humans have become increas…

Apple has started to embrace tabs within the system, most notably by integrating them into Finder windows in Mavericks. I agree that they should make it a standard type of applicat…

I think this post makes a valid point, and I also think it's important to remember that Objective-C has also been changing incredibly fast during the Apple's meteoric rise and the …

This is a great idea, just got mine! It worked for Paypal back in the day to boost signups. Hopefully between this and the MIT program we'll see more interesting transactions in BT…

I don't think that the Hacker School rules have a goal of lowering standards, but rather of preventing the one-upmanship which is so common among (usually male) programmers. To som…

Having tried out various of the recent speed reading sites and apps, I honestly don't think they are useful for any dense or difficult material requiring thought to comprehend. I a…

It's easy to say that the American college admissions game relies on strange and difficult to quantify criteria, especially at top schools. The more interesting aspect is the compa…

Where are you getting the idea that Blub refers to Lisp? If you read the actual essay, it seems to refer to Java or something similar. The whole metaphor is about why developers do…

In the United States, student loans are almost impossible to get discharged, even in the case of bankruptcy. That is a large part of why people taking on massive student debt is so…

True, but the risk profile for a late-state venture investor and an investor in public markets are very different. Let's say a company's valuation starts at 2 billion and drops to …