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http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/Xenopsychology.htm This is an interesting essay on the minds of our ocean-dwelling aliens.

Plus I'd argue that more vacation time would mean each employee has a more even spread of the workload. You depend less on individuals, and more on the team.

The stack traces suck sometimes with the metaprogramming. I have never chased down exactly what causes it, but sometimes you'll have lots of library code calls mentioned, and nothi…

I think it may be the degree in those cases.

Yet also the thrill of the unexplored goes away when one doesn't bother to explore.

I'd agree that micromanaging is a bad sign. Too often I get micromanaging about style critiques like "turn this into one if statement instead of nested ones and it's more clear", b…

And if people are writing 150 character plus lines, those are really, no joke, a lot harder to read. If the line is going to break anyway, why not just break it yourself at a spot …

Text of the tweet so people don't have to click: A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in co…

If I wanted to understand the differences in how the EU manages big companies versus the US, with points from all sides, where would I start reading?

I think you're neglecting the effect corporate backing can have on encouraging research from people who are less startup-minded and more I-like-knowing-I'll-have-food-on-the-table-…

I mostly agree with the points leading up to the suggestion of mandatory data sharing. I'm still mulling that over. But I do agree that just breaking up Google, for example, wouldn…

Though you're more likely to shape your own failure. Let's be real. That's not to say don't try, but be aware of the full picture.

How do people find the addresses to even start probing for stuff like this?

Use case for labelled breaks: collision detection in video game, where anything colliding with anything else ends the game, resets a counter, spawns Godzilla, who knows. With label…

They really could have done a tiered release. Keep the knowledge of the vulnerability as close as possible for the ~6 months they had it, then release it to a greater (but still re…

On top of that, the video games I play and enjoy are decidedly unreal and often intentionally simple or stylized.

I'd live in a big city if more cities and building architects cared about green spaces and noise. I'm glad people are doing research here.

Indeed, code reuse, testing, maintainability, etc are harder with the latter pattern. And with the latter you also end up using at least 3 languages in the same files. It's just re…

My rep sent a canned, formal-language-adorned "get stuffed" in response.

http://www.icr.org/article/plants-math-ration-food-use/ This is a really cool example of plants using math too.

Let me put it this way: never have I heard an explanation in terms of classical mechanics. In my intuition, the billiard ball model of physics makes perfect sense. But a current ta…

Except "why does Snell's law over a continuous gradient effect the path of shortest time?" is equivalent to asking "why is the universe quantum?" It's plenty bizarre that electrici…

Correct me if I'm wrong, please. Doesn't any sufficiently-complex non-linear optimization problem degenerate into heuristic trial and error? There's a progression of better and bet…

Try the Cinnamon WM on Linux. It's the best of both Mac and Windows' interfaces without the worst of either.

Contrary to the analogies being drawn by sibling and child comments, work is different from dating or interviewing potential roommates, in that you typically have to give up a prev…