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The majority of this article tackles the over-reliance on software metrics, an issue that many people have brought into question over the last decade or so, and he does a good job …

I would have seen this as good news, if I hadn't read this article the other week: http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/03/ning-exposed-tech-comp... . I noticed Marc stopped blogging…

I don't think I get this. They could have put together a blog or similar website which they pushed articles of this type out to once a month, with all the convenience of linking an…

"In the end, however, it all boiled down to a lack of content." Last sentence in the article and a fitting conclusion.

I remember when I was Time's person of the year back in 2006. Which is to say I'm not sure how much can be read from this. It's amusing they had the wit to run with it and I'm intr…

To a certain extent, it doesn't matter that much. This is a problem that affects most universities and most courses. Ultimately I became resigned to focusing on what I wanted from …

This is very similar to the rants I've given and heard from plenty fellow students back when I was still studying a few years ago. I can see exactly where it's coming from, and yet…

Yet another generic, vacuous article about twitter, of the skeptical variety. I suspected there might actually be some insight in this one since it got posted here, but it's as ina…

I noticed balsamiq uses comic sans or something very much like it. Probably one of the few appropriate uses it has.

I noticed balsamiq uses comic sans or something very much like it. Probably one of the few appropriate uses it has.

I was really hoping I'd get asked to sign-in before I could read that article. More to the point though, twitter's issues tend not to be the kind of thing you're looking for in bet…

http://news.ycombinator.com/best The highest rated posts in the last N days (not sure what N is). Not very well documented, but interesting to know about.

Yup, that's a good way of putting it. So his claim that the CTT is false is misleading. Really he's showing that it doesn't hold for real machines. Perhaps that's not a particularl…

He's restricting the input functions so that they're parameterised by the variable that marks the current state of the computer. In reality this occurs often (the variable represen…

Also, anyone know how this compares with qt/qtopia?

I suspect the addition of twitter to the proposal was purely to ensure it recieved the attention it's now getting. Also, primary school is equivalent to elementary school is in the…

doh, I missed the root comment (threading isn't very obvious in links).

It can't be both? The percieved benefits of protectionism, combined with the squelching of unsavoury opinions and other content must be very appealing.

That's an inconvenient truth that ;)

39 points within an hour or so. I'm not really sure what to take from this tbh.

Damn. The day after I claim he's been doing nothing for the past year, he goes and posts a fairly interesting review of django. Now, lets quote Zed: "Read it, and take it as a chan…

OK, I'm guilty of some hyperbole there. From what I can tell, Zed is perfectly capable of being civil when he wants to be, very driven and a good engineer. However he has an impuls…

Up until he pulled his trollier-than-thou speech i'd have agreed. The utu documentation is very well written and enlightening and so too are plenty of his trolly articles. What ann…

You know, if he'd actually done that, that would be fine. But in the past month he's flamed the music industry after doing a piss poor job of researching his claims then retaliated…