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Something about the old MIT AI koans convinces me that yoda would be a lisp hacker; http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan

I hope they maintain their teletypes better than the wildfire people or someone is bound to get shot by anti-monkey-lasers.

Where are the low level lightweight concurrency/parallelism features?

Hyperbolic title considering that David Sanders is giving two Presentations at the upcoming SciPy 2014: The wonderful world of scientific computing with Python Sunday 8 a.m.–noon i…

That’s what I kinda suspected. It would be hard for me to imagine someone mistaking sensitivity to the listed foods with a gluten problem.

On your gluten free diet, do you eat (in no particular order): apples, pears, peaches, milk, sugar, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, garlic, avocado, cauliflower, mushrooms, …

See also the National Geographic coverage: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140514-bicep...

Do you have any actual data to back your wild assertions? Entire domains of computer science are dedicated to productivity languages and many are widely used with great success and…

I had to look it up. From wikipedia: A proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID controller) is a control loop feedback mechanism (controller) widely used in industrial cont…

For some hardware attacks, like transistor-level dopant mask swaps, there isn’t any reliable way to detect them, not even optical inspection (because the layout is unchanged) nor f…

The DIY Garden Box That Destroyed A Nation! You’ve got me wondering about startup culture. When you’re running a startup you presumably invest all your money, borrow from friends a…

“It’s just wood” is also a great description of kale.

sounds useful. how did that work? were you auditing? did you enroll as a student? what was the cost?

The phrase “Oculus Rift, which added an orientation tracker” glosses-over the chief technical accomplishments of the team. The Rift is defined by the affordable very low latency he…

This reminds me of "Thing" -- a passive bugging device hidden inside a wooden carving of the American Great Seal and given to the American Ambassador to Russia by Russian school ch…

His usage of "powered" is a very common english colloquialism. For example the phrase “powered by wordpress” doesn’t indicate that someone is obtaining energy from the wordpress so…

Maybe something like the Canon Canobeam DT-130 Type SFP: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/free_spa... But, you know, more than one... or something.

Wait. A gmail.com email address on an apple job listing? How can this not be some kind of identity theft/fishing scam?

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Not worth your time. At all.

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Yes, let's look to the British to tell us how a country should keep to its borders, handle international relations, balance domestic surveillance/privacy concerns, run fair and imp…