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That absolutely may have been a factor. However, what 26 year old computer nerd without a black belt wouldn't give suicide some thought when staring at an unjust sentence in a fede…

Aaron Swartz being dead is becoming annoying.

MIT needs to be shamed publicly, regularly and continuously until they publicly apologize for their shameful behavior. Giving this award to Swartz, and giving the money to his pare…

It doesn't matter if Aaron Swartz is ineligible. We should still nominate him. We should nominate him so many times that granting the award to anyone else makes this award an obvio…

> Every platform that is public and anonmyous runs afoul of this, this isn't just twitter. You can look at Youtube comments, reddit, pretty much any forum. We had ways of dealing w…

> Free speech has a legal definition, and Twitter doesn’t qualify. The legal definition of free speech is based on a moral principle, for which Twitter does qualify. When a platfor…

LiveCode looks very attractive, but I have trouble comprehending your interpretation of the GPL. At http://livecode.com/support/ask-a-question/at-what-point-do-... you say: "The FA…

Yikes! That's different! But it still doesn't have the one feature that I've been wishing they would implement forever. In a collection of audio files, I wish they would provide a …

As I understand the code, an "Atom" is like a tagged pointer. It gets passed around by value, sometimes it contains the value itself (numbers), and sometimes it contains a pointer …

That sounds like a way to write programs that use a bluetooth attached gotenna. Is that correct? What I am asking is, could I talk to a gotenna using another radio setup of my own …

Do you intend to release the specifications for the protocol you are using? For example, would I be able to hook a computer with gnuradio up to a MURS radio and write software that…

Netflix just keeps creeping one tiny step at a time farther and farther away from the awesomeness that they once were. I used to love Netflix. I was a loving, loyal, evangelical cu…

The Serval Project is already working on this: http://www.servalproject.org/ Unfortunately, they are limited by Google's very long standing lack of response to requests to support …

It's a pity that there is no discussion of the fact that the 2 interpreters use different scoping. The 1st uses lexical scoping, and the 2nd uses dynamic scoping. It's also a pity …

Wonderful story, but I kept wondering the whole time, why weren't they printing out every useful bit of survival and geographical and machine maintenance and biofuel making informa…

> you treat them like the primary creators of value for you company, and yourself as their support staff Bingo! The best managers I have had over the years spent far more time gett…

> How do you incentivize the good ones to work for you? Easy. Instead of giving the programmers managers, put the programmers in charge of their own projects and give them administ…

This really is an amazing opportunity for Amazon. If they were to drop DRM and allow third party applications on the Kindle, they could blow Apple out of the water.

Scratch is an amazing piece of work. It's sad that the license prevents it from ever being part of a default OS install.

Now is it just me, or is finding the person you want to hire, and then advertising for the position locally, getting the cart before the horse? Whadaya bet the advertisement is ove…

Seems fine to me. If you want the captured variable to be different each time, you need to create a new environment each time. How about this? >>> fs = [(lambda x: (lambda n: x + n…

It's partly a matter of definition. I usually don't feel like I'm getting work done during meetings, but sometimes I still need to be at them. I usually don't feel like I'm getting…

There are many ways to affect others. You can help them, comfort them, share with them, remind them that not all Christians are fundamentalists, ...