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I read the grandparent as being a parody of how the stereotypical engineer thinks. Poe's law in action?

Do you use org-mode?[1] It's perfect for outlining and managing lots of information. Once you've written your paper, you can easily export it to HTML, PDF (through LaTeX) or plain …

They're also running a kickstarter-style crowdfunding attempt at https://pledge.immunityproject.org/the-free-hiv-aids-vaccine .

> (I'm looking to extract audio clips from video files by using the subtitles and timing information, to create listening flashcards. Since Anki doesn't really do this, not reusing…

To anybody else who first skimmed over this quote: the first half is funny, 'classic Feynman.' The last half is not.

Google is a 350 billion dollar advertising company...

The Suits references on http://getinch.com/how-it-works made me smile.

I quite like the 'apology' he received from the conference organizers: > In July 2013 I told the NSA-affiliated conference organizers that I was having some problems in getting my …

Some context: I don't actually know how useful this will be. Most foreign companies already use VPNs to Hong Kong or the US. Almost all the expatriates I know have personal VPNs se…

Trevyn, above, mentioned, > The conversion from LaTeX to HTML was expensive: we raised considerable funds, but ran out before finishing Volumes II and III, so we are only posting V…