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> kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever Funny how intolerance for boredom is framed as the problem, rather than the boredom itself. > incarcerated students really want to lea…

I think detention before trial is always unfair in principle, but likely unavoidable in practice. I would like to see the issue acknowledged and taken more seriously, but it's a tr…

Imprisoning people without trial, for predicted future crimes, is what's unfair. Letting an algorithm make the prediction instead of a judge only punctuates the injustice. What is …

It is, but I think the OC was suggesting that the old code can be kept around and used for automated regression meta-testing, which is an interesting idea.

Would be cool if it could detect which users had access to the document and switch to the most recently used of those to open the link. Not sure if that can be done securely though…

No standard library, nor even a standard class/object model. Lua is more of a language engine than a complete language. In that capacity, it is quite a success.

Java probably outperforms JRuby primarily because the JVM was designed and tuned to run Java. But in any case, if Twitter's architecture is truly scalable then any intrinsic slowne…

Some guesses: 1) Their backend crashes constantly during normal use, so they have to shut it down when nobody is around to babysit. 2) The form submits directly to some poor soul's…

It's YouTube's responsibility to implement a system that doesn't defraud people. The users getting ripped off have no direct relationship with the other users who are abusing the s…

YouTube has become a Kafkaesque nightmare, at least for regular users. They recently opened up monetization to everyone, but if you actually try to use it, half your videos will go…

For comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE

the standards body was forced to adopt h.264 The WHATWG did not adopt h.264 as a standard, nor any other codec.

So, if you want to cover up something bad you've done, just make sure you get charged with a crime, and the court will protect you? Strange system.

Yes, many people see it this way, while many see it as black and white in the other direction: CL doesn't own the content on their site (this is a fact) and thus has no say in how …

Not a lawyer, but I would be really surprised if that sort of copyright shenanigans held up against any legal challenge. I don't think you can sneak copyrighted stuff into non-copy…

According to his website, the police came to arrest him a few days ago, and if he hadn't been out at the time, he would be in jail now. So, this has gone beyond "possible charges".…

SEEKING WORK - Toronto or remote http://github.com/jedediah 13 years as a working programmer, 10 more as a kid hacker. Lots of web, some mobile, a little game dev, many platforms a…

When we figure out how to do that, we won't want to call it AI anymore either. AI is human mental tasks that we haven't figured out how they work yet.

As with the web, it's not the shoehorned apps that are leading the charge on mobile. It's the totally new kinds of apps that didn't make sense until this platform came along.

Whether it's right or wrong is exactly the issue under discussion.

Since they are not told, in any reasonably accessible way, what is going to happen when they click "like", they have grounds to complain about anything that does.

From what we've seen, these cyberweapons take a long time to work their way behind enemy lines and must evolve as they do so. If it's hidden in a shoe then it's not really a useful…

Try binding shift-space to underscore. You'll start to feel much better about it.