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No one has asked yet, so I guess I have to: is the Perl binary written in Perl?

Anything I would use Perl for, I use Ruby instead.

A fall when a bunch of people can suddenly sell is a normal thing. And those insiders should sell parts of their positions. They are very heavily invested in FB and need to diversi…

All of this "giving away" of stuff has stopped our society from reinventing the wheel. Unfortunately, the people "giving away" spend a lot of time reinventing fantastically-differe…

Several times I've been a company that says "the way the rest of the industry does X is stupid ." Sometimes we broke the rest of the market, sometimes we captured a really big piec…

"Missing stop signs" is one place where a google car would be great, since they pre-map the area and would know a stop sign has disappeared. Knowing that would cause them to slow d…

There's a classic science fiction story that I cannot remember now where people do exactly that. If it becomes a problem, the car can transmit images of the jaywalkers to the polic…

The people doing this have talked about how their autonomous car met another company's autonomous car. There didn't seem to be a problem. Really, when there are more autonomous car…

The 4-way stop was something they had to change from the ideal setup. The google car was obeying the law and waiting its turn and never getting it. They made it get more aggressive…

I think $10,000 is a big over-estimate, but even that would be spread out over the life of the car. I'd happily pay $1000 a year to not have to worry about driving.

Remember that the "5%" of the time you use your car is probably the same "5%" of the time every one else wants to use their car, i.e. rush hours.

From what I know it's always known-course. If you were to get a google car today for your commute (you can't), you would first drive to and from work yourself, probably more than o…

Driving at night and the rain will probably be where autonomous cars really outshine humans. Lidar systems don't care if you are wearing all black during a night at new moon. Snow …

Google's algorithm (which Strum seems to be pollinating everywhere -- and good, because the old algorithms were failing DARPA tests) is to pre-map the road. The car knows exactly w…

That doesn't seem right to me. A person driving 10K a year will hit 300,000 miles over the course of 30 years. Does the average person really have less than 1 accident every 30 yea…

I've got a 200 message/month plan from AT&T for $5 a month. My only complaint is that I can't share messages across the two lines on the account so each gets billed $5. (Also, no d…

That is very helpful. I'm going to be proposing this to work very soon thanks to you.

Back when cell phones weren't ubiquitous, I once worked at a start-up where one of the really rich technical leads thought it was unfair that he got charged when people called him …

I think most people are aware that the passwords saved in their browser are, well, saved in their browser, and if someone unkind gains access to the browser they gain access to all…

I think "Security questions" need to be completely destroyed and the earth salted. Then we have a long talk about them before bringing them back in a very careful, limited format. …

Compared to the other things we're talking about, fraud on credit cards is largely a solved problem. (Yes, there are issues, and I'm sure people actively working on the problem don…

In space, in the inner solar system, solar panels are more power dense than RTGs. The situation might change enough being on planet where the sun is slightly filtered by the thin a…

Yeah, one of the points of CIA is to help you identify which problems you want to fix. A lot of business assets do require confidentiality, and you have to spend correspondingly mo…

Once I moved and realized I forgot to cancel my phone and DSL. On the road, I used my cell to call the phone company to cancel. They did it for me immediately. I was relieved it wa…

Could be. But that's a very different problem. Old-school computer security breaks things down into the CIA categories: Confidentiality is for things you want secret. Integrity is …