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Modern pushrod designs aren't "sloppy" - when you don't need to rev as high to generate adequate power, you don't need the added valve stability that an overhead cam arrangement pr…

This is exactly the sort of condescending attitude that pisses me off about the CS program I'm currently concluding. Why should software engineering be considered "petty" in relati…

> I don't think individualism would be a major factor. There are many countries which satisfy your former criteria yet lack this; none of them have the same innovation economy that…

While condescending, this analogy isn't terrible for user-facing applications of the most trivial complexity. But equating developers to line cooks in domains where actual engineer…

I'd guess PayPal would still be a competitive advantage if it were quicker to respond to competitors like Stripe.

Honestly, this is ridiculous. 1. The vast majority of the games industry borrows heavily from titles which have come before, so Zynga isn't unique in this regard, nor should it be …

... so you're telling me to find data before extending data-less guesses in an attempt to refute my assertion? Seems legit.

Yes, exactly. Disincentivizing innovation and the financial machine that backs it is an /excellent/ idea.

Yeah, see, here's the thing: for many projects of noteworthy complexity, it'll be easier to gain an understanding of how to make use of it through a clear set of docs than it will …

OOP isn't intrinsically bad -- the problem is that developers have tried to graft an OOP model on software architectures that have never actually needed to be OOP. Also the disgust…

WebSocket protocol is pretty easily implemented in pure Python; my co-founder and I did this just recently to support some of our game client functionality.

I can't help but feel as if all of the claims made regarding "real innovation" in this post grossly undervalue the strides Apple has made in UI/UX and overall product design in fav…

Maybe. On the other hand, it seems like a fair amount of these opinions are "fuck this noise, I'm going to Reddit/etc." Don't get me wrong - I would absolutely love to see the new …

Oh, fair enough. I am curious, though... what sort of operating costs might go into that? Moderators, curating content?

The new Digg doesn't look terrible, by any stretch. But - the developers' insistence on an arbitrary six week push deadline when there clearly remain unsolved problems is fairly am…

I find it challenging to believe that individuals incapable of basic, entry-level algebra are really qualified to attend a university in the first place. Having many good friends i…

And so the Valley demonstrates its fixation on wealth through deliberate contrast to "those other places". Just demonstrates that pressure to conform to behavioral expectations ass…

Octopress ( http://octopress.org ) is a good static blogging framework built around Jekyll. Instructions for deploying to GitHub: http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/

This argument is, and has always been, ridiculous. The GNU user land is no more an operating system than the Linux kernel or the K desktop environment. It's just one component of a…