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The human genome has less information in it than a playlist. And even at that, we share most of our genes with mice. Our brains can store at least 5 and probably 10 or 15 orders of…

A couple of German Shepherds.

This is so wrong on so many levels. 1. If it were collective code ownership, there would be collective compensation. But programmers are compensated individually at market prices. …

What is correct when responding to scientific evidence is does not change with one's political views. The correct response is the same as for any other scientific result: Was the e…

There is a subtle difference between this and reductionism. Suppose your big problem is you are hungry. You could break this big problem into little problems in many different ways…

The general principle that any problem you face, no matter how big, can be broken down into smaller and easier to solve problems, recursively, is the most important idea in human h…

If feel you man, but a submariner really doesn't go with a tux.

Acceptable? The whole point of a programming language is that you can do whatever you want to with it. Anything "Acceptable" has to be something which follows a pattern everybody h…

Not a good idea. Its about 100x worse than tracking down your stolen iphone using GPS to find the guy who stole it from you and demanding it bck. Do not do this. Its not worth your…

Mentor Graphics has private offices. When our company was acquired by them, I thought I would really love them. But to my surprise I didn't like how it changed the culture at all. …

Back in the 90's, I was the "minister of truth" for the student group "Purdue Libertarians". Since then, I've evolved into a socialist. Both my former and current selves are appall…

Excellent. Notice also this solves the problem of outragious CEO pay. If we figure the marginal value of the CEO as how much more the company would earn if it added another CEO, it…

Any problem caused by an aging population cannot be a long-term problem.

This is kind of like saying why should you buy a $200 mechanical keyboard when you can get a perfectly serviceable model for $15? Its not even false.

Of course. Because we spend most of our time fixing our own bugs, no other profession confronts someone with their limitations and shortcoming as much as computer programming does.…

The best way to quantify something like this is a "wisdom of the crowds" method: basically let everybody vote and then aggregate the results. For this to work, however, each of the…

Lets think about this analytically for a minute. Why do you use Google? Because it gives you the answers you wanted to find. If Google didn't give us what we wanted to find, we wou…

When stimulus is suggested in a Keynesian context, it is not to create new factories, etc. It is to provide demand to fully utilize the productive capacity which the economy alread…

Please don't forget that this might very well cause VW to have to withdraw from the U.S. market entirely, and could even pose an existential threat. As far as morals go, by all mea…

Well, you have to fix the problems you have. 1. You must become a jedi-knight of white-board programming. For this, go to HackerRank and work absolutely as many problems as you can…

I couldn't disagree more strongly. The one-child policy was one of the most visionary and far-sighted policies of any government at any time. Already Beijing is so polluted the air…

Great idea. But why limit it to just Foreign workers? Just think how Uber they would be if they would just encourage anybody to use their EU passport and move to Elbonia if they do…

So most of the above replies seem to be a threat. Give us free stuffs. You have a nice website there, be a shame if anything happened to it..... Seems like the Tony Soprano way of …

Do the undersigned send any money to github? It might be better to phrase your demand in the form of a question, "how much can we pay you to do this work for us?"