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How would one measure the destruction Microsoft caused? The wasted time? The wasted money, the wasted lifes? Wat. I'm sure lots of work that gets done at Microsoft is misguided or …

that property is unprotected or poorly protected makes it less "trespassing." You know that booking someone for trespassing is pretty difficult, right? They have to be depriving yo…

One way to look at it: years ago, we dreamed that all of the menial tasks that we do would be done by robots, and that we could enjoy endless leisure while our robot servants labor…

Zynga has nothing special, no competitive advantage, no intellectual capital, no special sauce to maintain their market share You're absolutely right. Sadly their valuation, barely…

Spot-on. I came to post this. A CPU core != a Xeon Phi core != a GPU "core". Memory architecture matters a LOT, and much of CPU area is devoted to cache and memory infrastructure. …

A bit off-topic but per the NYU/Stanford "Living Under Drones" report[1], the use of military drones for "fighting terrorism" has been frightening, to say the least. It turns out t…

:( But true. Good news is that more and more vendors get this.

A similar problem is HR departments abusing the "knobs" on the position's requirements. For a software-based CRM company, they required something like 7 years of Java EE developmen…

Intel chipsets and processors have gotten very, very good with power management. With reasonable screen brightness and Wifi enabled, my X220 idles at ~8.5W. With a 90Wh battery thi…

After running debian on an ARM box for the past ~5 years, my experience has been pretty favorable. If there's a solid community following (which is a good bet with this product giv…

$250 is not exceptionally low cost for a netbook. Furthermore the power dissipation of the chromebook under load is only slightly better than a comparable atom system [1]. The idle…

Coming in even or slightly faster (in most benchmarks) than an Intel Atom D525 from over two years ago is "crazy fast"? I'm impressed with the Chromebook overall and I think it's a…

I'll check it out! Thanks.

Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly the most fire-safe substan…

One reason I'm not confident that the supply problem will be solved anytime soon: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/col... Given that college has been incred…

Every time fb does something scummy, and people act surprised, I am surprised. They've proven themselves to have the morals of a used car dealer. Why would you trust them, or be su…

I used matplotlib extensively when I was doing research back in school. It even made it into the work I published (after I got ridiculed for using excel to make plots). Being able …

Very interesting article, for a number of reasons. Back in the 90s I was just a kid, but I distinctly recall the major changes in the telecom landscape happening then: DSL/Cable in…