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> Joe Schwartz, a 1992 graduate and former lawyer, said of his band experience, which began by playing a blowtorch, “It’s probably not a coincidence that I’m in the chair asking th…

Objective-C has no object methods, just pure multiple-dispatch for a generic "select" operation? that's amazing.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186 > The Chinese government is building an omnipotent "social credit" system that is meant to rate each citizen's trustworthiness.

In practice, either the program was a money grab, or terminating it was. Public opinion has been that the program was a money grab, incentivizing state+local to aggressively seize …

This is surprising good news. Took me three tries to read "defunds" properly, not as "defends".

Senior Management ascension age is 45. Jack Ma is 50, handing senior leadership to the 45+ crew. He's giving people a 5-10 year reign at the top, and keeping the funnel balanced to…

The Marissa Mayer who turned around Yahoo by... waiting for Alibaba stock holdings to grow in value to cover the negative value of Yahoo's own projects?

the standard writing tool in mathematics and computer science is the pencil. Or pen, if you are feeling cocky. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

That day, no one will pay you to do what you do.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html It's not a fake story, though, and no one in the press got "played". It's a real story, with the usual lazy sourcing and lazy reporting.

"suddenly" is a funny way to say "over a span of years"....

Sure, this aligns with interests, but the bug's existence is predicated on the entire code base being written with substandard style rules and no static analysis or tests , which s…

> The aim is to create a culture of coöperation that favors collective well-being over self-interest. (sic) Fascinating. Anyway. This is collectivism .

"I am busy with other projects right now, but keep me in the loop as you make progress. Maybe write up a business plan and hire an oDesk freelancer to make a mockup/demo, and you c…

No, you aren't. Nearly every commenter on the WSJ site was offended by Mr Perkins (who we hope is senile, not at evil as his words betray) and by the WSJ for printing it. It is har…

It's 2014. Why don't tracks have sensors communicating with trains over radio waves?