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I like it. I think you've got one too many lines, though: you don't need both a confuse-o-meter and an understand-o-meter - they're reporting the same metric. I'd consider averagin…

Nobody gets forced into anything. You agree to a 2-year contract when you decide to get a phone for ~$400 below market price.

A more accurate version is: > A business is valuable to own if you think it may bring you more value in the future […] The mistake is conflating money and value: money can be a val…

Not to mention they're just Gorgeous. I had a set I picked up at a thrift store just for the look - Wikipedia's faster, but damn, Britannica had Gravitas.

In my rather limited experience as a sysadmin, I've found avoiding those calls to be one of my best motivators: My systems work like they're supposed to because I like my sleep. Co…

Two reasons: 1. Logs filling up with login failures from drive-bys masks legitimate/focused hack attempts. 2. If there's a security vulnerability found for sshd, non-standard port …

I was just thinking the same thing - but Noam Chomsky writes, and talks, and lectures, and by that, he creates, just as we do when we write software.

Aside from the privacy issues, I think this is the biggest cock-up of the whole thing: They managed to predict, with shocking accuracy, the fact that the girl was pregnant - yet th…

In this case, the difference is if Foozits were something you used to stop your whatzit from itching, the proprietor probably wouldn't mention that out loud in the company of other…

I think part of the problem is that it's a very difficult question to quantify - we can't control the inputs, we're not totally sure what we want from the outputs, it's unlikely th…

I think it's worth bringing up a factor mentioned here a while ago - Piracy serves as a useful market signal. The fact that people are pirating content means there's demand - if th…

The site's down, but you can buy the folded version at Powell's Books for $12.95 here: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780981855127-0 No luck on the wall hanging versions yet.

Because then I've gotta deal with two windows. Cmd+~ : One's now in the background, the other isn't. Switch apps, one comes back, the other doesn't. Switch monitors, the sizing's o…

Because then I've gotta deal with two windows. Cmd+~ : One's now in the background, the other isn't. Switch apps, one comes back, the other doesn't. Switch monitors, the sizing's o…

Wealth accumulation roughly follows the process of "1. Earn money 2. Don't spend it" - It doesn't strain credulity that IQ might be correlated with the former, but not the latter. …

They've got the design down absolutely pat - the look of the item, the look of the print-outs, the site, the video - it's great. They've also got some valid uses for it in there - …

Yeah, I wasn't sure of how to approach the mental aspect - I didn't mean to say construction or other physical labor required little mental ability, because I've done enough of it …

I suspect two differences: First, "working hard" and working the sort of insane, body-destroying hours that Arrington & co are advocating are two different things. It's good to wor…

That's about half of what got us into this mess, isn't it? If you do this well, Yeah, I'd rather pay for it - we're not talking bank, but for a couple bucks a month, if you do what…

Honestly, the biggest problem I have with this site right now is that I don't know how you're paying for it - or how you intend to keep doing so. That's pretty much the exact probl…

Microsoft's pro-PROTECT IP [1], though I don't think they've made a statement on SOPA yet. They are, though, as pointed out, a member of the BSA, which is very pro-SOPA. 1: http://…

I was briefly skeptical, but on reflection, I like this for three reasons: First, email just doesn't work for contacting Congress. They get entirely too much, and it's entirely too…

Sunlight Labs has an API that'll do it by zip code: http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Sunlight_Congress_API/ They've got libraries for Ruby, Python, and even PHP, and the inter…

Just add a short delay between the keypress & the search/url push, and add a check to see if the query is the same. If after a ~second or so the query is the same, do the search an…

One of my favorite anecdotes about that comes from an article found here (can't remember the exact article): The author (a developer) went along with their lead salesperson on a ca…