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And Windows is free if you your time is worthless and you pretend you didn't fork over a wodge of cash. Can we kill this meme already?

Philadelphia, PA, USA; Remote: Yes, Relocation: Only for an extremely compelling opportunity; Full Time Stack: Mostly writing Clojure, Java, and occasional Python these days. Also,…

Primary hardware: Dual 24", 1920x1200 monitors; IBM Model M keyboard (manufactured in 1990) still clicking strong; computer is a 4-year-old 2.67 GHz Core i7 920 (which is plenty ad…

Vanilla chess can be a hard sell at game nights. I'd recommend a variant: Bughouse. This is a lovely (and madcap) game that can be played with four people in teams of two. It's pla…

I'm a CS grad student, by the way. Looking for relevant papers involves sifting through a LOT of chaff. For search results, I tend to want focused density in my results, and I want…

Very fast and unfiltered initial reaction: This site is very heavy. Literature reviews are a process of finding the tens of papers you need out of thousands of candidates, and this…

There's also the sequel, Mindhacker, which was published by Wiley earlier this year. Ron's stuff is great, and absolutely worth checking out. Info on the new book is at http://http…

This looks similar to Bubble Babble (look at ssh-keygen -B, or the Wikipedia page). This method's advantage would seem to be that it's feasible to do by hand, but I'm not sure that…