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I always read that in my mind as “shit mill” am I alone?

The article conflates what I can do online with what my government, via projects like PRISM and others we've not heard of. My government using the same tools as I can use, perhaps …

You can't substitute a cheaper intern for a full time employee in the US for the same reasons you state. It's even questionable to have interns working on anything that adds to the…

This exactly. Tim Berners Lee and Roy Fielding both conceived of the web as a giant Lisp machine oriented around the URL / Hypermedia concept. HTML and the subsequent XML is a crip…

The sad part about this is how they kicked Bill Joy off the team because he wanted Java to have closures, functions as first class types, etc and nobody else did.

I was a boy when I first saw that icon of a hard disk on a Macintosh System 6 desktop. The moment I saw it, I knew, instantly, EXACTLY what it implied and felt a deep sense of sati…

Offer access to one of these as a service? http://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/google-books-team-open-source...

Or use Mozilla Persona. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

When the government set up and fostered the development of the Internet, was it picking winners and losers then, too?

I recall this missive from Linus Torvalds on the design of Linux: "If you want to see a system that was more thoroughly _designed_, you should probably point not to Dennis and Ken,…

I own a Kindle. I like it. I have, however, never bought anything from Amazon on my kindle because of the power this gives to Amazon. I use it to store and read _3rd party ebooks_ …

You forgot step -1> Write a test

In 15 years of experience where Java sadly pays the bills, for example, systems written in that language that had a modeling approach that tended toward immutability and tended to …