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Our actions are bound by reality. Our choices are bound by what we posit reality to be.

"In assuming that there are discrete laws of physics, we also assume there is a subset of all 'possible' events; events that 'can happen'. (Given a certain arrangement of the unive…

Who is Beta? But, seriously, isn't this just an export of the functionality (and interface, even!) that's been in GMail for ages?

Gravity doesn't pull you forward, it pulls you down. Unless a particular human never learned to walk or sit upright, their natural tendency in balance is to hold themselves in-line…

In some contexts, I belive they called those "National Security Letters".

I run a website that gets occasional buzz in programming channels. As a result, I'm in a dozen or so IRC channels, with hilight rules set up to ping me when someone's talking about…

Digital signal transmission tends to include an increase in error tolerance, which I mentioned. The margin reduces the strain on the error tolerance, which is also needed to cope w…

Area in the spectrum normally reserved for television, but not intentionally actively used by television broadcasters. Simplified (it used to work this way, now it's slightly more …

People would have to Like the relevant blog post to provide feedback, or Like any of the latest batch of "I hate the new Facebook design" groups that would arise. I wouldn't worry.…

They have (or had; not checking again) one on their sign-up form. That they don't have one on their contact page suggests they don't know what CATPCHAs are for ...

If it has any real depth, you'll see things the second time that you didn't see the first. If it's actually good, the same will hold true over and over. There are folks out there w…

Sounds like a challenge to come up with a new field of business. Interesting...

I think the part I may have misunderstood was where you said, "With Googles CDN, they have to hack either my website, or Googles CDN.", and I interpreted that as an exclusive condi…

You were critiquing the security cost of hosting on your own server verses that other server. It was pointed out to you that the admins of that other server would likely learn of (…

er. "known-cookies"? That was supposed to be "known-good queries." I think it's time to break for lunch...

That's not a very high cost. They don't choose to hit you, they let their scripts and botnets look around for old and vulnerable software. Have you looked at your raw httpd logs? W…

It sounds like he's conflating buzz with unit sales. Hope I never work for him.

I fell in love for the first time in 2nd grade, with an Apple ][e. I was born in 1983. I was let out of the classroom into the hallway to use the arithmetic practice software on th…

True enough. Archive formats like zip and tar preserve timestamps, but I wouldn't necessarily even trust your average power user to know how to reliably get at them.

Users creating and using free accounts have costs associated with them. Those costs need to be met in order for the service to continue, either by tying a revenue model to the user…

Ok, fine, but if it's his job to quickly slough off imperfect candidates using minutia and minor criteria, why's he going to the trouble of looking at code in the first place? I'd …

Tried signing up for an account. They eat their own dogfood, for which I'm thankful. It looks like the advertisers can force you to click through to get the security code. (e.g. Ca…

If the reviewer doesn't know enough about source control to fairly quickly find the most recent activity date, is it likely said reviewer is competent enough to review the source c…

Most recent commit date? Such things really speak for themselves.

Well, I'm part of a one-man company. I just call myself the 'principal' there. I've been the newest part of a four-man company for the past three years. I chose "computer programme…