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Your comparison to inject molding is correct. The press is used to hold the die mold halves together. I enjoyed this video that explained the process https://youtu.be/FUsicN-wKoY?t…

People say this kind of thing a lot, but I’m pretty sure it’s simply not true. bash-completion handles pretty much everything I can imagine already, and can be extended to handle a…

We do the simplest thing we could imagine. Our sitemap of ~50,000,000 entries is written to static xml once a week as part of a batch job and pushed to S3. Is there any reason to b…

If we assume that Saverin had to pay his taxes by selling shares at the same price at which the IRS assessed then, then my logic still holds. Saverin would have to sell 15% of his …

By my math, Eduardo Saverin doesn’t avoid any tax at all by leaving the US, regardless of whether or not his stock goes up or down. If he leaves, the US takes 15% of his stock now.…

To be clear, you are comparing a sharded Riak cluster against an unsharded MongoDB installation?

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt

In 1729 Jonathan Swift anonymously published “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Bene…

I find Sparrow for Mac much more pleasant than gmail or Mail.app. I’ve been on Sparrow’s beta build since the Sparrow beta started. I haven’t had any serious issues since version 1…

Did Kim Dotcom ever leave his house? Could it possibly have been cheaper, safer, and easier to, say, pull over his car and arrest him on the side of the road? Wouldn’t that also le…

Good to know. Thanks Paul!

They’re interesting problems, a good way to improve your coding skills, and an amazing way to train for interviews.

If anyone is able, would you please explain to me these two questions from the quiz? I’m stumped. Why does `toSeq` compile, but not `toIndexedSeq`? Set(1,2,3).toIndexedSeq sortBy (…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem

Plurals of Latin / Greek words used in English: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxplural.html One of my favorite pages.

You mean “without any prior evidence”. The phrase “a priori” means “by reason or deduction alone, without empirical evidence”. The phrase “a priori evidence” is an oxymoron.

Before posting that there is an easy or obvious resolution to the “paradox”, please read at least the first couple pages of the literature survey that Landsburg links to [1]. """ T…

Landsburg actually addresses this in his next post! Regarding the Liar Paradox you bring up: """One of Kurt Godel’s great insights was that you can go a lot deeper by considering a…

Amazing experiment. I wonder if it cost Yudkowsky money to get out of the box. I think that a bribe is the only way he could convince me to let him “win” the contest.

It’s a bit of a spoiler to post it here, but Nick Bostrom’s “The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant” (Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005, Vol. 31, No. 5) is the single most influential essay …

I’m on my 5th productivity motivated SC2 uninstall, but I’ll reinstall for an NYC Startupcraft.

My understanding is that you are correct. I believe that BigDecimal.doubleValue() does the conversion by (wait for it…) converting to a string and parsing with Double.parseDouble()…

Foursquare (NYC, SF): http://foursquare.com/jobs/ We have positions coding for our mobile clients (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry) and our server team. Our server code is all in Scala…

Agreed. Doukutsu Monogatari is, rivaled only by Braid, the most beautiful, fun, and moving video game I have ever played. It is astonishingly creative and innovative. The gameplay …

Very interesting. I’m glad that you pointed out that the Economist is “anonymous”. (If you haven’t noticed, almost all Economist articles are published without a byline). It’s a qu…