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Heh, this takes me back, due to the "Slayers" anime series. Although it looks a bit like a juvenile history (fantasy, magic, demons), the background story takes a lot from Ars Goet…

The alternative would be a government committee deciding on what should or shouldn't be printed/displayed on the internet, I suppose.

If it was an iPhone 6, the FBI could just use the dead finger to unlock the phone, no?

It "falls" but with good publicity because of the team. After that it's just a matter of hiring new developers and profit on the SW team's work.

Exactly. The best place to hide from the US is staying in a country who won't quickly deliver you to the US with just a fingersnap, like a good dog. Like any EU country would. Even…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism By that criterion, we shouldn't talk about a murder in our neighborhood, about our children failing at maths, about unemployment... War is…

I just saw Memento last night (for the first time), so reading the article felt like an incredible coincidence.

All the stories I know and heard of stroke victims in their 30's or 40's make me think and ask: is there really a way to prevent or predict a stroke? Would the "controversial routi…

Because if everyone starts doing that, no one will understand anything in this community.

"You don't have architects who draw UMLs for you" You better not, who cares about UML diagrams? But startup code doesn't have to be messy. I don't write messier code (to be used in…

This has been awesome. Thanks! I was kinda disappointed that I didn't need to get to Death Mountain after getting the 8 pieces. A 1-pixel Ganon would be cool!

Check http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus... to think a bit more about the other side of the matter.

Whenever I see rich guys forfeiting on more money so they can help the poor, I remember this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others... TL;DR: If a high-power…

I saw that and just registered/tried. Although it has Clojure (my target language), you still send code instead of an answer, and you get problems like not knowing what's available…

I liked the sound of leetcode, but I see the way to answer is with code (C++/Java) instead of a value answer. That ruins it for me. I want to play with new programming languages, a…

Every (serious) company prohibits it's employees from disclosing secret information, be it Linkedin or by phone, and even verbally with your friends. That doesn't mean it's forbidd…

If that's what's necessary for the company to develop such an antibiotic, why not? State-of-the-art cancer drugs can cost that ore more. I'd rather pay $5k and live, to not being a…

I was expecting "the ability to focus". You can have the greatest programming skills, but if you can't focus in doing what you need to do, it won't get done when it needs to.

And then you would have to trust app approval to a government entity. "Oh what's that, some encryption tool for secure communications? Not gonna happen." You would have lobbying fr…

For Django apps, just create an admin staff user with permission only to see the User model. Better, make it read all models. Maybe autoreply to any email from the NSA with credent…

He can also enter with some of his personal wealth, to sum to the 2 million from kickstarter. I don't know.

Read my reply to aviraldg's comment. I'm not saying he is a misogynist. I'm saying that as soon as she posted the picture (and blogged and etc) he's as good as a misogynist.

Read my comment again: it's not about what he is or what he's done, but what the picture (and her explaining in her blog or HN) made it seem. Of course it's not sexist, let alone m…