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Last year they had Gen. Keith Alexander, NSA chief. There are usually a handful of talks by "feds". I wonder if their talk schedule has gotten messed up because of this.

"Begun, the 0wn wars have."

"You're a grown man. You should already own a suit." http://putthison.com/post/44539956747/because-you-are-an-adu...

It's not so much that I care about privacy. My life is relatively boring. I subscribe to all sorts of services that help me get metrics on my life, at the expense of privacy. In 20…

Still, I agree with Mark's closing of Bug #1, at least on the grounds that the desktop is mattering less and less. Netbooks aren't selling (thus why the writer's mother got one for…

> I feel badly for his family and coworkers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_d6Hwvh5I&t=36s

I eat paleo as best as I can, but the reasoning for it less about "paleo" and more about thinking about what I'm putting in my body. If you put a package of Twinkies (or comparable…

I can't believe there's not a pledge level like this: "If you pledge $5, we'll send you a GI Joe to put inside your B" Kickstart all the functioning GI Joe vehicles of my childhood…

> I'm sorry, but Are you? Are you really sorry?

I read the headline and thought that HR was literally watching Twitter while the internel jumbles were going on, and any employees tweeting about it were being fired. I thought "ho…

Yeah, that was my question as well. I've often thought about plugins that I would want to write for Xcode, but there seems to be no documentation.

I spent two years as an LDS missionary in the Caribbean islands. Influence by slavery and indentured servitude, the most common races down there were African and Indian descent. Wh…

IGDA asks for opinions, and that's great, but it's demonstrative of how hard social change can be when it's a democracy: You wait for the majority of voting members to speak up abo…

If you're not familiar with her, Brenda wrote a book called "Sex in Games." She worked on a game about the Playboy Mansion. She's no prude, and she's very anti-censorship. Combine …

Android gained popularity because it was tied to Calendar and Gmail. These two services were pretty pervasive already, and so became the default in Android. When that happened, tho…

Huh? Since when do you always use 'ls' after 'cd' - I can think of many times that I don't need to do this, and it would annoy me if every time I called 'cd' it then printed out th…

I keep seeing people talking about this, but from my limited experience (< 1yr) working in the public sector, government work is not very hacker friendly. Hacker culture tends to v…

I loved the screen of the OLPC XO laptop. I know we're really pushing for high resolution/Retina displays, but when it comes to laptop and mobile screens, usability in portable/mob…

At the time, I was young developer being asked to interview a somebody. If I'm honest, I was a little prideful that I was interviewing him, and not one of the other, more mature de…

I agree with this, fully and unequivocally. I have to wonder if "there are ladies present" might also be construed as sexist. Maybe we just shouldn't use toilet humor in situations…

I saw a tweet yesterday that said "We test life in production". I'm ashamed of companies that don't let their employees make little mistakes. If I made a mistake and the internet d…

I actually just ran into this. I had a client forget to add a www CNAME record, so they thought the site was "hacked" when they added the www to their domain and got this parked si…

I'm curious how they plan to monetize this. It's hard for me to invest too much into the "open web" for browser games when there's not a very clear way of monetizing browser games …