Viewing profile — jlefo7p6

Tell us how you really feel: "...His declaration in Pedagogy of the Oppressed that there was 'no such thing as a neutral education' became a mantra for leftist professors, who coul…

I totally bought a wind-up OLPC laptop last Christmas, with one extra feature: vaporware crank.

Limiting yourself to works with a narrative hook in the first few sentences is a mistake.

I can appreciate Empiricism as much as the next guy, but Google Search, Cuil, and Alpha seem comparable. edit: the dreaded homonym! I mean they can be meaningfully compared to each…

This might help: http://thwart-ipa-cracks.blogspot.com/2008/11/detection.html

We've already heard today that focusing too much is bad ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599977 ). All we need is an article warning against a balance, and we'll have the whol…

I guess Alpha could come with tech support to gently rearrange your questions, but it seems like cheating ;)

You'd have the make the subscription cheaper to offset the app's cost, so you'd still be losing money on piracy. Plus, making the end user pay twice sounds annoying. It sounds like…

The title is a little off: security updates boost security, and silent updates boost adoption of updates. The recent stink with Adblock Plus and NoScript using my browser in their …

That book looks hugely interesting--thanks for the recommendation! We've been using biological metaphors in this discussion, but I'm not sure we can extend them this far.

Hand the software out for free and charge for user accounts on the server. This turns the problem into one of "How do I prevent account piracy?", which is hopefully not dependent o…

The photo of the wide corridor of KIVA's bustling past each other struck me as beautiful. Maybe I should get some sleep ;) Like the Roomba, these guys found a way to use tech that …

The amazing thing is that there is a lot of repetition even at 10 paragraphs. Some of the other comments here sum it up in twitter-sized chunks. The missing piece is how to identif…

I think you were referring to the n-body problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem ). If so, I suggest not neglecting gravity. Without gravity (and either assuming thes…

It's a lot harder to take this stance if your site is impacted by the arms race, but it is cheery news for the technologist inside us all. One caveat is that this sort of developme…

"If you view work as something that starts at 9 and ends at 5, you won’t be able to finish everything by noon." "If You Work at Home, Never Work 9-5" But it's only a fencepost erro…

blink tags... check. embedded audio... check. obligatory webrings... check. homemade pokedex... missing! It fails my unit tests for Geocities-ness, but I think you were referring t…

I enjoy programming, and I learn the theory behind it to make my programming better. Since motivation is an important part of introductory classes, I'm okay with the current order.…

I'm not sure how investing is taxed right now. On the assumption that the author is calling for an existing tax to be taken away from a certain kind of investment: Under the curren…