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The author of the article wrote it using words. He didn't make a video or draw a picture, because words were the best way for him to communicate with other humans. For some reason,…

Thanks for posting this. I thought the linked article seemed to be making a lot of dubious assumptions, but didn't have the references handy.

And it STILL doesn't play DVDs without additional software! sigh

This is going to sound arrogant and troll-y, but I assure you it isn't. I don't look. When I want a new job, I stop ignoring recruiters and wait to see what comes along. I've never…

That is quite a leap of logic based on a single correlation.

Precious $DIETY, take my $APPENDAGE. Please let the next version of OWA look like this.

Being Dutch is not an excuse for saying terrible things about who should and should not have children. People are suffering. Have some respect.

This isn't "running Java on iOS". This is cross-compiling Java to Objective C, the exact same way that other toolkits like MonoTouch, Titanium and RubyMotion do it. The difference …

This ought to be front and center on their site. What you wrote there turned a bunch of meaningless buzzwords into a useful product description. I'm now actually interested in the …

I don't know. This is essentially saying that the way to solve problems is to add additional layers of abstraction. If you want to see a bunch of examples of why that's a bad idea,…

I'm not sure why, but I find the term "for the masses" horribly insulting and elitist. It instantly turns me off on whatever it is you're talking about and tells me absolutely noth…

How is that a fallacy? I think the fact that private keys have been leaked in the past demonstrates that they will be leaked in the future.

I was with you right up until you called everyone who doesn't do it your way a retard.

Two part answer. First, I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. Second, though, is that I don't think it matters. You need to find something you like to do and then…

I think that really depends on your goals. If your goal is to bash out a web application and get a startup off the ground, you ought to learn something that is tailored to doing th…

What kind of "beginner"? If you mean someone who has never programmed before, Go is much simpler to learn than C and makes a lot more sense. If you mean someone that is a programme…

I am not sure you can make the claim that cooperation and mutual aid are "principles that life on earth has found to be beneficial", nor would you find a large body of either biolo…

Not to sound like a jerk, but I would really like to see the math you used to determine that learning one text editor versus another increases your earning potential.

For word breaks? Why are they not important?

I didn't say I picked consecutive words. You'd be right otherwise, though.

I get annoyed when I can't use spaces, because my general password strategy is to click my link bar shortcut to Random Wikipedia Page, pick five or six words and use that as my pas…

I think it's probably more on the side of "sad", considering the way I did it. No mods. I wrote a little android app that you could put the words and number of correct letters each…