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"There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great man theory, neatly summarized by the quo…

>Buy every kid of 3 a tub of Lego bricks (Not a 'set'). That would go a long way to getting them thinking, problem solving, and building stuff. That's a really weak argument. Buy e…

>I am certain that Apple’s designers do just as much thinking, research, prototyping, and testing as their counterparts in Redmond. But they don’t talk about that work. Instead, th…

>Where do I really start? Make a game.

Funny how gamification has made everyone forget what "game theory" really means ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory ).

>Apple's branding and advertising tends to exhibit a similar focus on how their products will improve your status, rather than on the capabilities of the actual hard/software. When…

It's upside down to you because it's on the back side of the LCD panel- if it were the right way facing you, then it would just be upside down when you use your computer, which jus…

Yakedee yak yak. Typical software engineer soapbox rant, all about ego boosting. If you want the life of a rockstar or an investment banker, go do that instead.

This is for sure an interesting link- I'm not sure why it's getting front paged on Hacker News though. Anyone care to elaborate? Again, I'm not discussing the quality of the link, …

Gates wrote, by himself, the best BAISC interpreter in the industry in a matter of months. At a time where there was no internet to check out the latest papers, StackOverflow to he…

The wikipedia article has a subsection that is well explained IMO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_pop_boat#Principle_of_opera...