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Thank you for the clarification. It seems overly generous =) Often code is GPL'd with pricey licenses for commercial applications - which always makes me think twice about investin…

Oh woah - I'm very happy about the BSD license. This means people can more easily potentially spin up business around this platform. I wonder why they chose it... Does anyone have …

I don't really play a lot of videogames anymore, but I have a lot of trouble empathizing with this. When the gender roles are reversed it seems silly to me. "most every single 'put…

The debt issues has less to do with blackmail, and more to do with having serious financial strains. They're concerned you'll sell information in exchange for money so that you can…

Thank you for the explanation. That's a lot to think about.

Sure.. a garbage collector would mess you up, but garbage collection isn't an intrinsic property of stateless languages. EDIT: Seems I'm wrong http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GH…

"on account of the runtime not being amenable to real-time constraints" What are basing that on? A stateless side-effect free language would be significantly more amenable to real-…

I'm fairly ignorant of the details of static analysis, but why is it being done on programs written in C? Shouldn't they use languages specially suited for this kind of analysis? I…

He isn't because he often raises issues which aren't "on the agenda". So he'll make statements for instance about returning to the gold standard, or getting rid of all overseas mil…

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not just use Google translate? (or some equivalent) If you don't know any English and you were to auto-translate your question. I think the v…

"I don't care if Bell Labs didn't cash out" Yeah, well that's nice that you don't care - but Apple's shareholders do. The point is that this kind of R&D doesn't pay-off. Companies …

"100 failures for every 1 success" There aren't a lot of examples of big tech companies dumping money into R&D - with no end goal in mind - and then cashing out big time. Even comp…

Sorry if I came off as bitter. I'm a couple of years out of college and honest I felt that the CS department was pretty self entitled and misguided. "CS degrees teach you algorithm…

I think it's important to hit the ground running using the best tools available. "Students should learn what those components do from scratch" Yeah, they will eventually. When they…

In the election of my local representative there are only two realistic contenders - both from the 2 main parties. No one else has the resources to send out all the junk mail and r…

"CS is a hard science" Hahaha. As someone who did a degree in physics, computer "science" is a joke when it comes to math. They took one of the easiest field of mathematics and rol…

I'm so glad you replied! I've heard versions of what you've said hundreds of times and honestly, you academics are missing the point! Yes, the particular tool you learn will become…

I never knew this was a problem in EE, but I know for a fact it's a huge issue in CS. They don't want to teach any "tools" b/c CS professors find teaching people how to be good dev…

reminded me of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpoint Given they say "Each pen will be sold with a notebook made of "stone paper"" I suspect, just like silverpoint, it doesn…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_compiler I don't have a lot of experience with it. I've used Cilk Plus a few times.

"Reddit, on the other hand feels very much alive." To me is always feels like the Borg. It's like a group think hellhole of masturbatory pleasure. One single mega entity. Take any …

arguably reddit has also "decayed" quite a bit The quality of the conversation has gotten worse and worse, things are targeted towards the lowest common denominator. You need to go…

Why would you want to 3D print a car part when you can just make one with a CNC machine? CNC machines are cheaper, more precise, and are already established. The advantage of 3D pr…