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Bubble or no, from a personal perspective I will not use bitcoin as a currency to exchange goods - things like purchasing items or paying salaries. Bitcoin's value is just too vola…

This is just great. Enjoyed it - posted it on fb and ready to watch it again - then the server is apparently overloading. Wonder what the traffic is like.

A 3d scanner and 3d printer, both controlled by a phone. I should be able to send whatever I scanned to my friends and have him/her to print it off rightaway(3d fax?).

This spoke the hearts of many souls, myself included. Thank you for writing this.

How is this different from codemirror? Codemirror's preview utility easily handles this (and much more versatile in other ways): http://codemirror.net/ http://codemirror.net/demo/p…

I beg to differ. What you are describing is scientific dogma, simply another kind of symbolism. Totally natural though: when confronted with too complex a situation, we seek abstra…

'Up and Running with Node.js' is a much better book: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449398583/index.html And seriously, before jumping into node one needs to know some javascri…

Here is something that's easily overlooked: bringing design and manufacturing together promotes innovation. Having a more rapid iteration cycle is important, but why? Here's a prin…

I feel you on the 'life' part. Only people that have been deeply commited to academia, and realizing its role in this era, can understand the emotional impact on this choice.

Life: Knowing life is pointless, and it's completely up to you to make a point. Programming: Common Lisp. And... not being overzealous about it.

It isn't just emails in particular. Think for a moment about some fancy sites you've come across - say a startup advertising their service/product. How many times after being fed a…

It is nice to see these more expensive variants of colleges spring up. At least they're more honest than most universities - but then as [intellegacy] already noted, the opportunit…

There'll always be someone to point out that such degrees are necessary for higher(!) degrees which are necessary for academia. While the myth that we have a shortage of PhDs and s…

In the risk of being downvoted to death, I think reposting these articles is necessary: 'Don't become a scientist!': http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html 'Women in science'…

It is about 'meaning'. I'll elborate: there are so many things you can learn, so many areas of art, of science, of mathematics, of history and what not - but _why_ should we learn …

Give up pursuing eloquence, unless You can speak as you feel! One's very heart Must pour it out, with primal powers address One's hearers and compel them with an art Deeper than wo…

That the only thing left to do is to pay the "processing fees".

This finally happened. Narrow specialization at its best.