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Absolutely. A century has around 36500 days. If you compose a list of 100 people who died on that century, your chances of hitting the same day more than once are estimated at almo…

The article contains several examples for the different interpretations. CISC vs. RISC is an example of "worse is better than incompatible". Unix vs. lisp-machine is an example of …

"Worse is better" is an incomplete sentence. Different folks complete it in different ways. Some say that worse is better than complex. Others claim it's better than slow. Others s…

You guys do realize that most `find` implementations support both the `-ls` and the `-name` flags, right? find ~/Documents -name somefile -ls

Egads! It was so obvious that I kept calling it GNUSpeak in my head, enjoying the cleverness of it all, and only now, following your comment, noticed it's actually GNUSpeech...

The existence of "finance tech entrepreneurs", as you politely call them, and the fact that they are indeed very noisy, does not mean there isn't a community of programmers who act…

From reading the article (and not enjoying it very much - see msravi's comment about its handwavyness), the question it's failing to answer isn't "why is light faster than X" but r…

I think Feynman's point is that to be a good scientist, you must keep in mind the difference between the map and the territory. You preform observations. You think of explanations …

Boy, do I have good news for you: http://conkeror.org/PDFViewer Conkeror is so much Firefox, that you can easily fit the former with most things that work with the latter, includin…

It is trivial today to sample audio in a rate and sensitivity which greatly surpass both the density of the pherromagnetic material in the tapes and the fidelity of the original re…

First of all, if your business wants me to memorize stuff that has nothing to do with my job so that we can both engage in a game of pretend, I don't want to work there. Who knows …

At 60,000 to 90,000 ft.? Yeah, it's gonna be challenging.

This is actually a pretty common misconception amongst muggles. A magician's trade is to lie with action, not with words, and most magicians I know have a very strong sense of hono…

> we don't have a GitHub or anything user's can download yet, but stay tuned for more updates. Crying shame.

They are actually not using proof of burn. Counterparty is a decentralized exchange that sits on top of bitcoin. As such, I don't think it should be minable, not with proof of work…

While the usage of the word "Yoga" to describe spiritual practices is certainly quite old (the Yoga Sutras were apparently compiled a bit before Jesus), Hatha Yoga is only a few ce…

It looks like TextSecure encrypts your actual texts, for which you still pay, while Telegram also takes care of delivery, for free, and does it faster and better than SMS (which sh…

Homepage at linode.com lists 2GB Linode at $40 a month. Am I missing something?

Well, before I open an account, can you please explain how this is better than using jslint?

I don't know. I'm an artist, and while I enjoy getting paid to create and preform, taking money for reproductions that do not require further effort on my part always feels weird. …

This is the opposite of what Tesla is for cars. It's taking the single most energy efficient vehicle I know - 99% mechanical efficiency, incredibly low carbon footprint, and an ama…

Douglas Adams had a brilliant definition (used originally for "nerd"): a hacker is a person who uses the telephone to talk about telephones.

Displeasure aside, having access to the source directly benefits people who can read and edit the source. In the long run this benefits everyone, of course, but it's only the techi…

RTFA - this link appears in the first paragraph.

Back in 2008, FF was on a downward spiral. It was getting bloated, slow, annoying... And then Google came out with Chrome. It took FF less than a year to get their s t together and…