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If you work at McDonalds, you probably fed a soldier or a weapons designer, or CIA field operative. You'd have to drop out of productive society entirely to escape this dynamic.

Yahoo! engineers probably could do this. Yahoo! middle management not so much.

Yahoo! engineers probably could do this. Yahoo! middle management not so much.

/usr/games/worms is the best shell ever.

This dynamic seems to give an advantage to corporations who have a systematic, always-full pipeline of patent applications. The barrier to entry for a single inventor for filing a …

If nothing else, cyberspace can be delineated economically. In meatspace, the economic leverage of a traditional business is scarcity and the leverage of traditional parasitic dist…

Security red flag: passwords are "secure enough."

Cornyn has been gunning for Holder for a little while, asking for his resignation earlier last year. http://www.google.com/search?q=cornyn+holder Edit: spelling

It would be cool to have an external source of quests/bounties, such as user stories to be implemented, trouble tickets to be addressed, etc.

I have a DVD player, and a broadband connection. Without getting into something (cable, set top streaming, torrents) for which there are investments in time, energy, and money, the…

"...a feature, not a company," is high praise. That's how it should be, as long as that feature can be combined with other such features to create new things. Very few users are we…

Except that every time they can, Amazon reduces their prices. Any investor who thinks that they will at some point increase margins doesn't listen to what Jeff Bezos says: we're go…

Part of preparation of this kind is merely getting comfortable with the idea of problem solving and coding in a high pressure environment, many otherwise excellent candidates elimi…

Every line of code is a liability. Every comment is also a liability, especially in light of the fact that the comment may, over time, drift away from the code. I sometimes wish I …

One sign that you're lying to yourself: you're actualizing a vision.

Give up trying to measure people against some standard yardstick. It doesn't work in school, it doesn't work at work. People have a complex set of inter-relating competencies, and …

Good kids don't get detention.

Earlier this year, I removed the clock from my toolbar. If I need to know the time, I can hit my iPad, or do a 'date' command in a terminal window. If I know that I have an impendi…

For the XBox model to work, apps will have to cost $40.

The day before Saturday is always Friday. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/world/asia/samoa-to-skip-f...

https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/811

Seems like another section of a businesses disaster recovery plan should be the one on how to resume operations after a government raid.

Then there's probably an AbstractCPUBuilderFactory to go along with it.

App idea: Twitter client with a breathalyzer.

Is location, role, and current/desired comp sufficient to match employers with talent?