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I'm forced to reconsider this remark. Venture capitalists -- like all investors -- play an important role in bridging the gap between consumer demand and actual innovation. They ar…

Deploy: Ruby things. GEMs work better than EGGs, in part because there are fewer of them. Ruby makes OO easier. Maintain: Python things. There are so many EGGs! If you need a new p…

One could also develop a separate kernel API for version control. Filesystems without version control would just have null operations in this API, while filesystems with version co…

Because of UniHan?

I can not believe you linked to yourself! It does not speak well of an author's arguments when they rely on generalities -- "you don't know everything" and "programmers can't commu…

Ruby has always had excellent support for Japanese, though.

Well, if you don't place much weight on foreign language, that's okay -- my point still stands. U.S. performance in math and science is comparatively disappointing. I can't really …

The reason we have public education... ...is to allow the economy to function more efficiently, through pervasive literacy, use of numbers, &c. It's in the interest of the wealthy …

If it were just Asian countries, I might agree; but the U.S. lags those wild and free Northern European countries in matters like math skills and foreign language training.

They may be admitted, but they won't actually go :) They'll get a package with a punishing amount of loans.

Maybe it would be better if people always used cat, always used wc, &c. Sure, performance is better the other way -- but multiplying the functionality of each command comes at a pr…

Sure.

If I understand it correctly, the idea with Reddit is that the community can decide what news it wants to see, by posting links and then filtering them. If the community wants hate…

I hate to press you on this point -- the wreckage of many a flame war has barely had time to grow moss -- but can you point to a specific feature? I assume you mean OS level featur…

I would like to hear more about why you use it. I used to use FreeBSD for everything, but it's my understanding that the once significant differences in performance and stability b…

Gentoo

The objection that, in the midst of a long document, telling what level of indentation one is at would be difficult is easily addressed by having the editor show space marks or usi…

In Zen, it is said that "aggregates" (things) have no "self nature", that all things arise in "codependent origination" -- you can't get a driver in a universe without cars, nor a …

It is a clash between classical logic and intuition, which is the point -- it indicates a difficulty with applying classical logic, and encourages us to take up other avenues.

The Raven paradox is a good example of why we need Bayesian inference. The paradox is not a real paradox -- it doesn't imply true and false at the same time -- but it makes a stron…

Doesn't the statement limit itself to the present? "All ravens are black."

If two logical statements are equivalent, then yes indeed, evidence that implies one of them (in classical logic) implies the other one. The solution is indeed intuitive but is not…

There is a lot of cynicism about undergraduate CS -- but no one in the industry offers internships to anyone but students. If you don't like what the Universities are selling, stop…

And what about more effective?

I feel so bad for doctors and lawyers after reading your post. Now think about how the poor sysadmins feel -- man, picking grapes is starting to look pretty good...