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So, I made an iOS jailbreak tweak called LSMusicSeek and submitted it to ModMyI.com for inclusion in Cydia a few days ago. Basically it replaces the volume slider on the lock scree…

If you traveled back to the 90's, it would be a good fictional story about computing dystopia. In fact, it is still a good story about computing dystopia. But it's no longer fictio…

This is a story that I've always hated because I think it is very very unlikely to be true. If he actually did play blackjack, I'm curious to know how many hands he played, how muc…

After reading the interview, I have zero interest in reading any book from Eric Schmidt, but I am thoroughly fascinated by what Assange has to say. This interview is probably going…

everybody has a different definition of intelligence. personally, i don't consider the vast majority of humans to be intelligent. if we are trying to create artificial intelligence…

what did you do (if anything) to get 270.2 in apr (apr is not even finished yet)? and 155 in mar? why are some months missing?

I started out as a computer programmer. After a few years of dealing with the braindead corporate system in America, I decided to make a change. I ended up moving to Australia (jus…

Yup, the good ol' pump and dump. Bitcoin is trading like an IPO stock during the dot-com bubble.

yes but why in the world would you compare "software development" to "building bridges"? I think this is a major fundamental problem with the entire field of Computer Science, appr…

They're really good for delivering pizza in an urban area.

1. why not just finance the way they normally do, by borrowing (selling bonds), or taking money from the taxpayer? 2. currencies today are already essentially digital. the vast maj…

Yes, change the way the game is being played, but don't play the game that Google is playing. Change the way people search for things. Right now everything is based on the keyword …

The way I see it, Google is the new Microsoft, and Microsoft is not dead yet, but becoming more and more irrelevant. Now, what has to happen for Google to become irrelevant?

Mexico? The wall along the border is not to keep Mexicans out, it is to keep Americans inside.

Cushman, you sound like somebody who believes everything that you were taught in school, and you are unwilling to entertain an idea that has the possibility of destroying the found…

So Microsoft owes them metric dollars?

The more you understand, the more you realize that most people aren't very good at what they do. Not that they are bad at what they do, either. It just takes the magic away.

To call Objective-C a shitty language is, oh I don't know, really really ignorant. It's one of the nicer languages in my opinion.

And yet, here you are on HN responding to this thread. Just a little bit ironic :)

If this is the future of computing, then I quit. I don't want to play anymore.

People who label them as "conspiracy nutters" more likely to be conformist and closed minded. They will be more like to believe "the big lie", because everybody else believes the b…

But you have to start somewhere. There's never going to be a silver bullet that fixes the system. Because some people (the ones in power) do not consider the system to be broken.

Linus is not dead wrong. This should not be reduced to simple binary. To argue whether or not Linus is technically right or wrong seems pointless to me. Tangentially, it really bot…

I just wish that the guy who did the browser did a better job. I agree with Alan Kay when he said "the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource"…

Actually he's saying the opposite. A black swan event is something that is unpredictable. He's saying that all of the futurists' predictions about the future have been wrong, there…