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Serious question: what's utility?

Self-esteem is one of the most useless abstractions I know of. Its currency is tied together with this nonsensical emphasis on "feeling good about yourself" prevalent today. I real…

Shouldn't the headline read "Android Sales Overtake iOS in the U.S."?

Does anyone know if there are amateur news sites that do things like collect shit people just report like "oh shit, this guy just got hit by a car on Damen & Wolcott" or "Hey, guys…

The Coming Community , Giorgio Agamben: A series of reflections on medieval philosophy and language that culminates in a notion of community that isn't grounded in any kind of comm…

"You can't make people happy against their will" would be the smoother translation.

Any comments on how instructive HTDP is with Racket for introducing a non-programmer to coding?

some people like proper gtk integration

As someone with a philosophy degree I can say that your thought is immeasurably underestimated. Every philosophy 101 course teaches you Plato, but the differene between the Plato y…

In today's culture that's damn hard for a lot of people.

Wait, so Ballmer talked over the insight of his highest software engineer? Is that really what happened?

Giraffes don't swim. Simulations demonstrate they could, kinda, but it'd suck. Giraffes don't swim.

I'd rather keep Tumblr and WP.com apart.

No surprising picks there.

This is one of the more sober commentaries on the internet and power I've read in a long time.

I'm curious as to why lifestreaming never caught on: why entrust all your data to a single service (Facebook) when you can entrust specific data to specific services (photos to fli…