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I went to a Montessori school from pre-K through 6th grade. Overall I think it was a good experience. But the transition to traditional school was very rough. I was mostly fine aca…

Based on what I've seen in their engineering blogs, they've been spending a lot of time on streamlining the production and distribution process. I guess that makes sense for a prod…

It's not a book, but Christophe Pettus' blog ( https://thebuild.com/blog ) has a lot of really good information. In particular, his talk "Breaking PostgreSQL at Scale" goes through…

Would you ever say that to a male colleague? Would anyone?

There are lots of people working on this problem. The NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure has funded quite a few projects working on long-term data storage and discoverability. The l…

Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Murder rates have declined comparable amounts in lots of cities that aren't systematically targeting minority residents for harassment.

Either the author or Andreesen completely misunderstands or misrepresents the concept of network neutrality. Network neutrality doesn't mean users don't pay for the bandwidth they …

I think the major funding agencies are aware of the problem and the potential, and are working on solutions in their own way (for example, the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure's D…

Does anybody remember Apple Dylan ( http://wiki.opendylan.org/wiki/view.dsp?title=Apple%20Dylan )? I never used it myself, but I remember reading a lot about it in the late 1990's …

Sorry, the link goes to our horrible, PeopleWare-powered recruiting site that you have to access over port 8291. If you're behind any kind of firewall, it probably won't work.

Washington, DC (no remote at this time) National Geographic Education is looking to hire two engineers to help us build a platform for geospatial Citizen Science: http://goo.gl/1aR…

I thought the changes to section 3.3.1 are in the license for the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK, which is still in developer preview. If that's the case, we shouldn't start seeing rejections u…