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Please do write that blog post!

On the positive side, adding a yes to the bottom of the list as well as the top was a key refinement. I felt that was missing when I viewed the photo of the original and was pleasa…

Hero worship? My heroes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kennedy , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Powers . People I'd place in the …

Not just a PhD. He had a Fullbright at MIT. You'll find his biography either incredibly inspiring or depressing.

She has published peer reviewed research: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi... (her actual name is Natalie Hershlag). One of the co-authors is Jerome Kagan: …

What gave you the impression that the paper was supposed to have relevance outside of a classroom? The paper has practical applications to teaching, which should be self evident gi…

Krishnamurthi has also done some really great work teaching introductory programming. He and his coauthors wrote a book meant to occupy a similar space as SICP, available here: htt…

Agreed. I'm canceling my Netflix subscription the second Amazon increases their selection. EDIT: And holy shit. A video player that works beautifully and I don't have to install an…

It's not popular because it's odd, it's popular because these types of freak situations happen to regular old homeowners all the time: http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corpor…

The existence of a technical solution to a security problem doesn't mean that it gets implemented in practice. Sure the security issues are theoretically solvable, but that means n…

It's possible that it is all a work of fiction, but Greg Hoglund is an accomplished security researcher. It's certainly a realistic scenario that Hoglund discovered them himself, o…

Do you really think he doesn't exercise this restraint? I have a hard time believing the President steps out side for superfluous reasons. And to be honest, stepping outside for a …

I don't think there's anything to be done TBH. In previous discussions about the community's slipping quality I was always encouraged by the fact that submissions stayed approximat…

Did you stop programming in Ruby before 1.9.1? Most common performance issues were fixed in that release. If you need something faster than 1.9.1, you probably should be dropping d…

This rant seems misplaced. Rubinius adopted a test driven approach for testing Ruby compatibility because Ruby doesn't have a spec, merely a reference implementation. The spec is b…

Beautiful example how a combination of open source enthusiasm and commercial interest can generate some first class software. There's no way this could have happened without Evan's…

What HN used to be above is this stupid pedantry. 300 lines of code is a euphemism for a simple system. That's it. Who gives a shit if the actual system was 800 lines, or even seve…

Plus, an office in Monadnock is hardly bleak. I was really surprised at how reasonable their rates for starting offices are.

I doubt your average developer knows that Paul and Knuth went to Case Western. You're average developer probably doesn't know that the founder of Paypal and the co-founder of Youtu…

A PhD is a formal license to do research and it marks the start (not the end) of a lifetime of research. You need such a license if you plan to work at a company with a rigid corpo…

I should clarify. I'm not picking on the open source community. I'm differentiating the open source community form the private sector because the incentives are different. There ar…

When even someone like Colin introduces a crypto bug like this, it makes you wonder. Are we ever going to get to a place where crypto engineering is something the open source commu…

When being pedantic, it's best to be right: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innocuous . 1: producing no injury : harmless 2: not likely to give offense or to arouse stron…