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If Woz had a little more Jobs in him, he'd have told Jobs to go fuck himself when he sold Woz's work to Atari and paid him a fraction of the money. There would be no Apple.

Look at it from the other way too. A foreign agency is secretly funnelling money into an institution that's supposed to be looking after my (as a UK citizen) interests. I think it'…

I'm stuck in a cycle of continuously rediscovering this, then forgetting it again almost immediately because CTRL+ALT+DEL is so damned ingrained.

See: Woz and Jobs.

See this? This is part of the problem, stop being so stereotypically blinkered. The rest of the world doesn't care if the US government is spying on its own citizens. The US govern…

Children shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised, full stop.

This is remarkable, I initially thought you'd typo'd your typo and had to do a double take to spot it. Isn't the brain a wonderful and scary thing.

"There is now a menace called the printing press. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, movable type is the worst menace to society." -- some fucking Pope or other.

Gone to the great Rumfuddle in the sky. RIP. 96 isn't a bad innings all told.

Yeah, this article's blinkered, hyperbolic and frankly smug tone is pretty amusing when you take things like the above into context. He even sticks a "literally Hitler!" on the end…

Not an expert, but from what I understand it's a trade off. Super-capacitors hold much less charge than batteries. There was a very interesting article about them on HN last year I…

There's no such thing as bad publicity! Wrong.

It's also easy to not see stuff when you're blind drunk. Both of these things are illegal, it's no excuse.

It's not just better writing though, it's the difference between laughing with and laughing at. BBT isn't just "not funny", it's actually rather obnoxious.

Is it bad that I can still recite that number from heart? Rhetorical question, of course it isn't!

Just write a script that outputs "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" for 40 hours, see how that tickles him.

'“When it comes to cyber security QinetiQ couldn’t grab their ass with both hands, so it cracks me up that they won,” Bob Slapnik, vice president at HBGary' I love the smell of iro…

Good answer, thanks. I've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program, I assumed the first stage had already reached orbital velocity.

Right, excellent. Except the first stage doesn't run out of propellant does it, because it has to LAND again. Hence my puzzlement. I know why multi-stage rockets are used... I'm as…

I don't understand the need for the intermediary stages, couldn't the main rocket just deliver the payload and then land? As it is in that video, it's having to carry engines and f…

It owes much more to Master of Orion and its sequel, with its races and customizable ship design. Homeworld's main innovation was the fully 3D battlefield, Stardrive is entirely 2D…

I thought Minecraft's inspiration was Infiniminer?

Given the context of the blog (free time), it's only natural to assume you were talking about that too, since you don't explicitly state otherwise. I'm perfectly relaxed by the way…

"First, telling someone what they should and shouldn’t do in their free time is a tremendous insult to them and their personal judgment. It’s also incredibly short-sighted." Read t…

"But there’s different classes of success." Two tips for life: Never ever let anyone else define what success means to you. Never be arrogant enough to attempt to define what succe…