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-> "I believed Microsoft Windows was only platform worth to develop software." This sounds like the first line of a Kafka-esque horror story.

Just looked into this, and I am quite surprised with the fluid UX. Thanks for the suggestion!

I recently migrated to clojure from the php world. I have to say that although I am still learning the language, its actually fun compared to php, which would sometimes feel like p…

I think this is a very interesting game with an important message. However, the UX could be more engaging by having a more vertical leveling up structure. I felt as if I wanted to …

Im not sure why there seem to be some negative comments, this is absolutely amazing- albeit a little scary in a sci-fi clockwork orange kind of way... Additionally, consciousness g…

If by intelligence you mean something along the lines of information processing/synthesizing ability, then intelligence has been shown (hedging- strongly suggested) to be dynamic a…

This article is interesting but it overgeneralizes. I don't think its fair to say of tech entrepreneurs that they are somehow managed by their investors. Sure, some might be, but t…

"Creative had a technologically superior MP3 player, but customers preferred the iPod, to the utter dismay of the Creative managers. They just couldn’t understand how customers wer…

First, I agree with the sentiments of some of the above commenters, "coders" just sounds ridiculous. Now, this question is ambiguous between two different interpretations of being …

I agree. At the end of the day, it always comes back to personality types and drives. Each startup needs different things in different phases. Maybe a really smart coder is exactly…

Be careful with definitions (sets of necessary and sufficient conditions) to any concept... counterexamples lie around the corner.

I think people like Jerry Fodor define computation as the manipulation of logical symbols by some algorithm. The idea is that you use a standard functionalist analysis (see someone…

Its a nice touch including portmanteaus and 'incorrect' ebonics on the list (like "ery'day"), since authors like shakespeare, joyce and others took the same liberties with language…

Interesting, since I heard Paul Steinhardt give a talk not too long ago concerning some skepticism towards the inflationary model's ability to explain the issues that it set out to…