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Hmm. My Mom was a trained engineer. She's no longer with us, but if she'd lived long enough to select a Bitcoin wallet, I have no reason to believe she'd have picked a poor one... …

Without newsblur support, not really likely to rebuy. I respect the work involved in moving what had been a google reader client into a true multi-provider client, so would rebuy i…

This doesn't seem to me to mean as much as the author thinks. By the same reasoning, after all, email as a communication mechanism is "dominated by" spam, much of it similarly shad…

Yes. A central idea of the American experiment is that there are exchanges of liberty for security which it is not acceptable to make even if the people collectively decide to make…

Dumb question, but the author kept running a TOR node at a site he knew was under NSA surveillance? That doesn't strike me as very responsible...

Except that before "just supporting Linux (and maybe MacOS)" was the thing to do, it was "just support Sun (and maybe HP-UX)". And before that, it was "just support BSD/Vax (and ma…

Beyond the question of how meaningful these metrics are, wouldn't it be a more useful metric to look at how complex the code you write when you use each framework is, rather than t…

This will not only miss non-ascii printing characters, but it's not even much shorter than typing [[:print:]] to use the explicit character class.

This would seem a problem that could be solved by a cloudish sort of solution, though -- have an iPad app which hands actual typesetting of a document off to a server somewhere, se…

I think you're not considering enough ways in which one technology can be superior to another. Ruby wins for the web not because it is faster _at executing code_, but because the c…

No disagreement with the basic, point, but was a bit surprised by this quote: "So, here's our situation. We have a man (presumably; at any rate he appears to want to be identified …

There's a Mr. Turing here to see you about whether this site is really connecting him to a lady, sir.

There are a couple of ways around this -- all of which fall under "be careful". :-)

though be careful how you do this -- it's easy to end up with a divergent program, as prolog tries to: * prove X(A,B) * realizes that it can prove this if it can prove transitive(X…

Wait, really? "Anger"? I mean, "disappointment" maybe. Or "annoyance". Or "wistful regret" -- all reasonable reactions to the real loss you suffer when someone else decides not to …

In fairness, this is stretching the meaning of `binary blobs' a little, right? I may be misreading, but the issue is that some of the elisp sources of CEDET were generated from bis…

Yes -- one could argue this opens the door for other bad behavior at OSCon, since it's not on the (new) list of things not to do. That's the problem with putting these things in wr…

So, the complaints seem to break down into two types: a.) things which broke because they depended on Rosetta (PowerPC emulation), when Apple has been warning for at least three ve…

I recently read both volumes of "Artificial Intelligence -- An MIT Perspective", which is a great view of the high-water mark of the MIT AI Lab. This two-volume set, put together b…

Yeah -- there was a great example of this yesterday, too: http://nklein.com/2011/06/quicklisp-win-weblocks/

Pretty much exactly my experience, except that I'm running a lot more compiles and a lot less photoshop on this 13" MBA. In particular, if you're upgrading from a machine without S…