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This article goes to great contortions to avoid talking about electroweak theory or spontaneous symmetry breaking, both of which have decent Wikipedia articles, and are crucial to …

> There's often a lifetime of work behind the development of that skill. This is literally true of every senior job role. It seems like it's mostly software engineers that don't ge…

Or, people are realizing that there might not be enough actual BTC to back all those MtGoxBTC.

It's hilarious that people believe there was an actual, unstaged market transaction selling a fish for $3k/pound.

Compliance rules for Microsoft Playready: http://www.microsoft.com/playready/licensing/compliance/ The encryption part of DRM systems is effectively the same as client-side SSL cer…

This kind of functionality is standard on OMAP4 devices.

This link is an artificial construct designed to provide the superficial result of a real article.

86400s is one day, not one year.

Fat shaming in the first sentence.

Is a 10x developer the same as a "10 star" developer?

Not directly. Davinci is a different business unit than OMAP.

nimius illectus - "the excessive amount that is unread"

I will care about companies complaining about too few H1B visas when they start paying equivalent H1B visa holders and citizens the same.

The tip atom would be oxygen, as CO adsorbs to metal surfaces via carbon-metal bonding.

The author appears to either not know how old Gen-Xer's are, or is smoking crack. We entered the job market during the 90's boom, so we were much better employed in our early caree…

Meh. I generally assume people have good motives, unless proven otherwise. Lustig is screaming "the sky is falling!" Feinman is responding in a perfectly natural fashion, "If they …

Lustig's premise (from this and other sources) is essentially: (translated for a techie audience) 1. There is a clean pathway and dirty pathway for converting fructose to glycogen …

They are technically both correct, but in different situations. If you drink a glass of orange juice, you get Feinman's case and no problems. If you drink a 72 oz soda, you get Lus…

5 seconds of Googling indicates that you're making shit up: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx The second half is, of course, completely correct. (Edit: please read "mak…

A simpler explanation would be that baseline JPEG is decoded in hardware that has a maximum width of 2048 or 4096, and progressive JPEG triggers a software fallback. Easy for Apple…