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Fuck'em. It was a dick move given all the opportunities he got in this country. I prefer rich people more like this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-kin...…

In reference to your first paragraph, that's all your opinion. You are completely entitled to it and I respect it. My opinion is that this looks awesome and I really want to try it…

Lies, damn lies and stats. "Apple sold 44% less iPhones last quarter" is technically correct. But last quarter saw around a 150% increase in sales because of pent up demand and the…

If you think it's that possible then why not contact your congress person/senator and have them look into this? In fact, talk to them about drafting a law against not being able to…

I just moved to IN so I need to double check the school system here but I do know about the TN system. My knowledge will vary county to county but in general I think this is true. …

I'm probably going to get downvoted for this but I'll say it anyway: there isn't a tablet market, there is only an ipad market. Apple want to make it easier to make books for ipads…

I think part of the problem is that rails isn't really RESTful. Here is a good talk about it: http://confreaks.net/videos/699-rubyconf2011-resources-for-r... Dropping the rails rou…

bikeshed.js? There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton

I like child labor laws. I like food safety laws ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle ). I like my bank being separate from investment institutions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w…

Chip stacking tends to be too expensive. Think of it this way: take the full output from a factory creating chips. Now if you stack just one chip on top of another, you have effect…

Actually, I think diamond is getting much cheaper. It's becoming much more integral for satellites and extremely small electronics because of their susceptibility to radiation. htt…

Right, I was thinking it was more of a random walk algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk There was too much randomness in his evolving. When I was evolving agents for…

There is also releases and updates on genomic data. It stays pretty current as far as I know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_HapMap_Project

A google engineer says that the security reason is bullshit: http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-security-and-microsoft-...

There is an anti-compete lawsuit going on between google and skyhook: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/internal-emails-reveal-go... There needs to be significant patent/ip reform…

There is a talk by Aaron Patterson from RailsConf talking about why rails 3.1 is slower than rails 3 and rails 2.3. Basically the rack pipeline is getting deeper. Because rack is s…

This looks interesting and would have helped us out tremendously 8 months ago. But, hey, better late than never. One thing that looks like it's lacking is how to integrate ui libra…

That's not true about rails. Neither the ORM, templating or URL routing are built in. People use Datamapper or ActiveRecord, ERB or HAML and routing is handled as rack endpoints. R…

Actually, the cost is your click habits. Google is all about getting advertisers to sign on by saying "we have better information on all these people because we house all their dat…

Syncing with things can happen over 3g. Being transparent can be nice but not with unlimited plans gone from carriers. I'm wondering if there will be an option to say not to sync o…

I posted this on the site but I'll post it here, too. The last point is wrong. The USB Implementers Forum complained last year about lightpeak using the usb interface. The other po…

I started out working on a fairly complex dynamic form builder for the research group I work for. They needed a way to build up forms to administer to possible research subjects. T…

1) Good point. Using the backdoor of the app store would just be easier for them to do (I would imagine). 2) Maybe they will be bringing along the big guys, in the future. Java is …

I think the newer version of macruby, with greater bridgesupport, should help this out: http://www.macruby.org/blog/2010/10/08/bridgesupport-preview...

Here is a conspiracy theory I've got, and I think this article and Apple releasing the app store for mac backs it up: Apple is going to drop Intel chips in the next 3 years. My tim…