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I just bought a $50 dollar peripheral for my computer specifically so that I could have a stylus, write handwritten notes and sketches. The issue is that if you have to have a styl…

You store all of your stuff on your server. Friending someone gives them permission to pull from your most recent feed. I suppose that if you really wanted privacy, you could give …

duckify! (?)

I would guess that they get a lot of hits (everyone gets sick), and that the pharmaceutical companies give them large amounts of money for ads. Also, unlike 'Old School Magazines',…

If I had to compare Facebook to anything, I would say that it is turning into Microsoft Project 2003 I'd more compare it to windows 95. It sucks but is ubiquitous, so you can't sto…

haven't had any problems with flash on linux here...

Or some sort of distributed system with a number of servers provided by anyone, acting on a specified protocol, allowing you to pull from one network to the other. Like the http or…

Fruits are much different from high fructose corn syrup. I think that people really over complicate things. On an abstract 'surface' level, it is a very simple feedback system. If …

Does this really need to be explained? You went a little bit overboard on the rhetoric. The analogy between Android vs iPhone and McDonald's vs Jean Georges is over the top. It com…

Yes, I know there are online fax services but they don't really solve the requirement of getting my signature on the document. I bought a pen tablet. It was about 60 bucks, but the…

That doesn't make any sense and its not a good analogy. A Toyota is a hugely expensive piece of hardware. IE is a 'free' (as in beer) piece of software. Software is cheaply distrib…

That is kind of what I use/need stuff like jquery for. I don't really need the extra level of abstraction it provides, but the extra level of abstraction allows it to do the browse…

When Pell grants were named for the senator in 1980, a typical public four-year university cost $2,551 annually. Pell Grants provided $1,750, almost 70 percent of the total. Even p…

1.) that's not a feature. a sufficiently bad programmer can write Obfusca in any language. 2.) (if you must) you add the 'feature' by writing python in lisp, as your argument amoun…

I don't know Warnier/Orr diagrams. I do, however, draw pictures and diagrams to help me reason through stuff. It is one of the big advantages to writing code on paper. I find tools…

Why do people in engineering/scientific fields get a free pass make fun of my philosophy degree? I'm getting kind of tired of hearing jokes about how I should be working at McDonal…

I don't know if I'm the only one, but there are 3 things I do as soon as I install Ubuntu: 1.) Configure the video card 2.) Install cairo-dock 3.) Mess with theme packages and desk…

As a fan of Clojure, I've got to agree. I was really hoping for a section after 'why you should use Clojure' dedicated to 'why you should use Scala', but there wasn't one.

I'm pretty sure they already at least use C and Java and maybe python (this is just based on their jobs listings). As much as it makes sense that they might think to rewrite the co…

maybe Andy, i am not sure about Bill.

This is why I'm getting 'sourcerer' printed up on all of my business cards.

I was kind of hoping this would have something to do with skywriting ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywriting ). It would be cool, because then you could integrate it with twitter…

I find this very interesting because (as mentioned in one of the comments) it seems that running anything with saved data on a computer could potentially constitute 'running interp…

But it isn't supply and demand. and the powerlessness of the market to control higher-education costs due to limited supply One of the biggest problems for a young academic is that…