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A friend told me recently that they liked Python because it was an easy language to start a project with, but they loved OCaml because it was an easy language to finish a project w…

A part of me likes this, and a part of me ❤s this. The rest of me wants to hear what a lawter like Lessig (or someone with a silar amount of experience and stake in the legalese of…

Hopefully there's a twist in the article, but I'm not going to be able to find out. I'm going to point out that any good university has a wide range of factors they consider for ac…

It's kind of a shame that two people got fired - but I did think it was weird when the person having a private convo was fired but not the person who used their corporate position …

On the other hand - I'm not sure which problem AZ is solving here. Maybe enough women weren't calling the police saying "there's a man in the bathroom!"

I can't help but think gender-less bathrooms are a better solution.

Word. For the record, not all women insist on a diamond, except reflexively... I actually know few couples that have bought diamond rings (for many reasons - some financial plannin…

Are we sure that Microsoft/Google/Samsung/Etc project managers aren't telling themselves that they're "doing it like Apple does it?" I also believe that apple has/had a design crit…

The assertion/snow clone "[x] makes you dumber just for hearing it" can sometimes be more accurately formulated "I do not have an adequately developed set of reasoning tools to gra…

I'm curious if home garden farming is big among the "preppers" - but then I think that planning a more self-sufficient food supply is only valuable to non-nuclear/chemical warfare …

The first problem is in the second sentence of the report: "The study lasted for approximately eight weeks." Based on my limited knowledge of outcomes assessment and the current sc…

As someone who's suffered under at least one megalomaniac's attempt to be the next whatever, I would caution any future CEO reading this article and dreaming about following its ad…

I was surprised at how thorough the article was. I went in assuming the article would be an ideological argument, but after reading it seems fairly straightforward (spoiler alert: …

'"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is."' - Charles Dickens

I was super surprised that the "key findings" section of the executive summary in the actual report give a very different feeling of the contents of the report than the summary pro…

I was super surprised that the "key findings" section of the executive summary in the actual report give a very different feeling of the contents of the report than the summary pro…

If problems is shorthand for "has a lot of cease and desist paperwork to file" I agree. I'm not clear what Adobe did wrong here, other than actually try to not completely screw peo…

It's the same reason I like having a macbook - I can currently also boot into windows natively or several flavors of unix via virtualization - every os has strengths and weaknesses…

Given that this has been solved in Spanish seeking cultures for quite some time - well, I guess I'm surprised that either no one at NPR speaks Spanish, or was willing to point out …

Punk is the new black.

I realize that "data" and "thinking" are shorthands for something more fleshed out, but doesn't the title read as somewhat obtuse? Like calling an article "why facts will never rep…

He had almost lost me until the section "people buying things they don't need with money they don't have" and the prime example was "education" - then he really lost me. Cranky cra…

I think it's possible to likely that Apple would implement something along the lines of sub-accounts for iOS, so that you could hand your iProduct to your kid without worrying that…

You are correct - the 2nd amendment prohibits the US government from infringing the right to "to keep and bear arms" - it does not specify what kind of arms, so knives and swords (…

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