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And then the internet will be reinvented.

The only reason I still have my fake profile is because pretty much every site out there has 'connect with facebook' so it makes it super easy to get access to content that's only …

Picking on Khan is a little too easy. He is not an entrenched institution and Khan himself has never claimed that his goal is to replace the classroom with his own videos. His vide…

Download eclipse and just get started if you want to learn java. It's got plugins for practically everything and you can learn the low level details when it becomes necessary.

I think this is great. Microsoft is having a lot of platform adoption issues and this will open up their ecosystem to a lot more developers so they can focus on adding value where …

Can't be done. The discussion happening at gist.github.com for the specific gist has some good info on why it can't be done.

Just goes to show you nobody ever gets social features right in the web 2.0 landscape. One of the reasons I've avoided github is because it feels like facebook for code geeks.

I'm betting on javascript.

Not just any defense contractor, Lockheed Martin. They're practically another branch of the government and wouldn't exist without tax payers. So technically US tax payers just boug…

Why do they all go through Mathematics?

I wonder what Bob Harper has to say about it: http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/some-advice-...

And yet somehow I don't think music consumers of the world will be better off for it.

I wonder when a pilgrimage to Mecca will just be a click away. There are some things that shouldn't be digital, death should be one of those things.

I don't really get this. Does facebook still run ads and on a dead person's page? If they do that seems a little creepy.

He confuses frugal with cheap.

This kinda sucks. It just goes to show you innovative and developer friendly technology can't sell itself.

So far Scala is the only language I have looked at that does a decent job of mixing object oriented and functional constructs without making your eyes bleed. Nemerle seems pretty n…

Nonsense, upvotes are meaningless. You're just too lazy to filter the content yourself.

What is it about math and physics majors that makes them think they somehow learn things more 'real' or relevant to the real world? Funny thing is this kind of attitude is way too …

How's her degree relevant other than the fact that it lends even more credibility to the fact that the piece is very well written.

You learn to program the same way you learn a musical instrument.

This is just plain smart strategy.