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That sounds like Stokes' Theorem!

Grad school for math can be a bit scary. If you've been out of math for that long, you'll need to do some review. All of the people I know in my graduate program are experts at at …

Someone has to use Googlebot though. Google is therefore liable for what it does. Just because a machine or a piece of software is the main actor does not mean there is no culpabil…

It is still trespassing. It doesn't have to be difficult to do something for it to be illegal. I think the bigger issue is that trespassing is usually handled with a warning and, i…

Seeing stuff like this always makes me giddy. Why aren't Americans more involved in the demoscene? I always wanted to find a way into it, but never found people willing to give it …

I agree with this answer, but I suspect that this is also why Lisp isn't often a first choice. Meta-programming doesn't figure into language choice discussions as often as it proba…

Often, the initial distributor of a torrent has purchased it as well. At least one person downloading or uploading a media file has usually paid for it. Your first point seems to n…

I think the argument is valid. Even some libraries have movies and video games. I fail to see how downloading media has a fundamental different effect than merely borrowing it. Eve…

Of course they aren't looking for originality. It can't be expected. When you give students a really difficult test, you don't expect everyone to make an "A". You expect some to fa…

An "idea guy" who also handles marketing and sales shouldn't be considered just an "idea guy".

The word-choice is really a minute issue. The more appalling one is that the "entrepreneur" potentially wins half the prize while his "resources" split the other half. This seems g…

All the serious D2 gamers knew all of the best items and finding them was a big part of the game for them (or perhaps it WAS the game?) Diablo was always about the exploration and …

This reminds me of the EVE Online player revolt. Those details your customers care about are the most important parts of your product.

I concur. Hard life lessons should not be taught in the context of learning a new skill. Those can wait until after a degree of proficiency has been attained lest we undermine thei…

For me, algebra is easy, but writing out steps is very difficult, and sometimes I prefer to use a process other than the one taught in class. Should the goal of math education be t…

Combinatorics deals with discrete structures, the kind encountered in programming, while probability concerns itself with determining the likelihood of a given event. The former is…

The best resources for learning math are textbooks. Learning math from pages on the internet is difficult. Mathematicians don't have quite the strong online presence that programme…

I spend a lot of my time writing Python, especially for Django powered sites, and writing client side javascript. Periodically, I'll get stuck maintaining large projects written en…

When I first started doing web programming at my first real programming job, everyone there used Dreamweaver as the IDE of choice. I used it for a few months before I could no long…

I think the impact of a text editor depends on your daily workflow. I do a lot of system administration and use emacs nearly daily to edit configuration files and write shell scrip…

This is leading to vigilantism, by the government and by corporations. This is one the most pointed comments I've heard about copyright litigation and wanton take-down notices.