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> But lawmaking isn't fundamentally driven by logic, ever. Fixed that for you.

On a global scale, a liberal arts curriculum is the exception, not the rule. I highly doubt that Chinese universities have liberal arts curricula.

Programming language design and implementation is awesome and terrifying. I did exactly this for my senior project, a language called [fuga]( http://github.com/fmota/fuga ) that is…

Allow me to be cynical but, if SOPA passes and breaks the Internet, these software companies would gain a lot. Especially Microsoft. Remember the "good old days" of Microsoft Every…

You need more foreign testers.

You need more foreign testers.

This is way too complicated.

The average of your n<5 closest friends, and 5-n nobodies.

YouTube for me. Although I would have continued to stream Netflix if that was an option.

Sleep paralysis is terrifying.

It depends on your platform AND on your compiler, so just saying "Windows 64" isn't enough information. Conceivably, there are compilers for "Windows 64" such that sizeof(int) == 8…

In science there's a difference between "law" and "hypothesis" and "theory". A "law", in science, is typically a formula that fits the data. For example: Hubble's law states that t…

A computer.

Yeah, the 10% figures are greatly exaggerated. More like 5%.

They volunteer their time anyway. They might as well do so for open access journals.

> ... but I have some questions. There isn't a single question mark in your comment. There's a difference between questions and remarks.

Also, because regular expressions are not the right tool for the job sometimes. ("No one should ever use regular expressions" is hyperbolic and wrong.)

I knew it was going to come down to (fucking) Ayn Rand, when the author started discussing the primacy of senses. Anyway, I think the author makes a bit of a straw man argument whe…