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I admit the convenience of Facebook. I use it. But voluntarily giving your contact list and location info, and passing your private conversations via a for-profit data mining machi…

Remember reading that Enron was also one sad example of stack ranking system.

If this box really is a secure, maintenance free computer, I see a lots of places where it could shine: elementary schools, small business, info kiosks, libraries, my parents ;-)

Even if they could do all that it is still wild guesswork with too many possibilies. And the effectity of that fantasy also assumes that there is endless supply of advertisers from…

No, it's about DNS resource records generally used by all name servers (RFC 1035).

I'm trying bootstrap in my latest project, but have to say was surprised the first time I viewed it with IE. Even with IE9 the navbar and buttons look poor. Any advise?

Don't really know Erlang, but having worked for Telecom industry earlier, I would guess Erlang is getting its concepts and messaging model from SDL [1] rather than from OO. [1] htt…

How to handle lots of parallel file uploads? Is Apache up to the task or are the better options? Any recommendations about multi-file vs single file at time uploading from transfer…

Sure some juicy rumours to awaken speculators interest as facebook IPO is drawing closer ...

One counterpoint for super rich: http://givingpledge.org/

One man project with 25 KLOC? A bit limited example IMO. No problem with C++ strings if you don't use 'em. Well, that's a solution ...

No, they just want you to bear the responsibility of using third party apps.

I wish that, in my twenties, (1) I knew this, and (2) I had the balls to be brutally honest with myself about what my strengths and weaknesses were I actually agree with the advice…

And the irony might be that he gets a company that outwardly looks exactly like he wants. The sheep willing to conform will stay and others will move on. Now I'm not saying anythin…

Seems like he was quite a champ. Far more precious if you can teach your kids to think for themselves and use their wings, than leave them a multi-million dollar company, me thinks…

Yes, and I would like to see HTML5 version of that Asteroids demo that would work in IE. I mean a nice demo, but not working in half of the browsers out there.

That's why he is here, I would assume.

Shoebox :-P

Yes, provocative illustration, but very entertaining, I admit. The magic trick was to reduce every idea to one word or one sentence. Can be used to make any movie plot sound weird.…

Sure, I agree that 2022 sounds absurdly conservative estimate. By then all browsers will support at least HTML8 :-P But my point was that giving impression that one company already…

Upvoted. You are correct. HTML5 is not yet even approved W3C candidate recommendation. To be more accurate Apple should have said that it is committed in implementing HTML5 standar…

Interesting indeed. It's good that GCC people start eating their own dog food and allow the use of C++. I'm sure this move will bring improvements to g++.

IMO (La)TeX output looks professional when printed on paper with a decent laser printer . You need to look very close. Difference is in very small details. I would guess that it ha…

Cringely gives good advice would facebook target to be a web service. Seems clear that their first goal is not to be a popular web service but to harvest data. Business wise this m…