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Funny, one of the best things one can do to get faster with Vim is to switch CapsLock and Escape (though I know people who are still reaching all the way to that top left corner ev…

I've been waiting a long time for the successor to the N900. It's sad it'll never happen, and that there's nothing similar on the horizon (especially with Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo flound…

I've long believed the master-apprentice system to be the most effective type of teaching system. Unfortunately, it doesn't scale.

MathOverflow is a hosted instance of the SE stack, while the "Mathematics Stack Exchange" is part of the Stack Exchange network (started in their Area 51, "graduated", etc). The fo…

Question: why is everything greyed out on the site except for a Facebook "recommend" button?

The complexity is actually one of the reason's I'm less attracted to American football than, say, soccer. In my experience programmers like simplicity and elegance, of which the NF…

A wise man once said "Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments." The reason _why (used as an example in the article) has the cult-like fol…