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I'm very much not a fan of RMS, but here's one way you can square that circle: He and you could both live by the principle that you do as much to fit your principles as you feasibl…

Ayo! I'm making a game engine, learning as I go, and writing a tutorial about it! In the third post, we set up OpenGL in a very basic way.

Ayo! I'm making a game engine and writing a tutorial about it! In the second post, I'm making Honey into a library and using the SDL to make a window. Simple stuff, still very earl…

Ayo! I'm making a game engine and writing a tutorial about it! Whyyy? Unity makes painfully clunky games, good languages like Python and Javascript are only good for making smallis…

I work for Google and I use Facebook regularly. It's still used by over 90% of my friends and acquaintances, in all (especially tech, academia, medical) spaces.

You said "Achilles geek". Look at your keyboard. That's the best typo ever.

That's way too simple. Many people on that list belong on that list, but... The American people overwhelmingly approved the Patriot Act, and the idea of surveillance, and the war o…

Role model. http://imgur.com/AfcF56q

> especially considering that Microsoft can significantly reduce expenditures by integrating the company into the web group This is a business truth generally, but Microsoft has pr…

"Yet he doesn’t answer the question that really concerns us: why is it better to knock information into your head than to get it off the web?" Because you still have to make the co…

Meh, this probably encourages people to distrust your website.

PS If you don't live in an area with good schools that let you take classes on the side, the best thing you can do is move to such an area.

Briefly: You have the most important problem solving skill of all (and one of the rarer): recognition of your own limitations. http://norvig.com/21-days.html (Hopefully more later …

The signal is weak but extremely detectable. It's exactly like the signal for a positive response; in general, click through rates for various things are around one or two tenths o…

Sample size is too fucking small. Also, as others have pointed out, you've allowed far too few swearwords. Good job though :-)

I have a Macbook, and I love it to death, but I also know a guy who had this happen to his thinkpad, and it was actually fine. It turned out the keyboard was hermetically sealed fr…

Hey bossy :-) There's also Super Happy Dev House: http://superhappydevhouse.org/ ... but I would still encourage you to continue asking if this is what you want to do with your lif…

I think you're telling yourself that moving to the bay would be better for your marriage. It sounds like your wife is trying to tell you staying and changing your lifestyle would b…

You're right. What you're doing is not sustainable. Your wife has stayed with you through 84 hour work weeks, a car crash, brain damage, and pills. All indications are that she's a…

I think a much bigger problem is Wikipedia. It's a much quieter but much stronger monopoly, and the people who run it are known to be prone to cliques, drama and manipulation. Goog…