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Not a book but the novella “the machine stops” by E. M. Forster. I read this in the late nineties and it still pops up in my head frequently — especially in our age of the internet…

I found E M Forster’s novella “The Machine Stops” in the same league as the above: it is about the human condition, and technology is just a setup to talk about that.

An aside: the title is a great example of context sensitivity. On first glance, I interpreted the title as some serious bug in garbage collection algorithms/Systems (as in, they op…

Remains to be seen how this impacts the US universities. Part of the incentive for the international students to choose the US over other countries for higher studies is because th…

Sent. First world problem admittedly.

This is fantastic. The exercises are non-trivial enough to be useful. One minor suggestion: if you can have the favicon set to your gopher, it can be great. Mine is a potentially n…

Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?

In my experience, the notion of "change the world" has no age bar sadly. Also, "change the world" is often thrown about in arguably shallow contexts. But then look at how Facebook …

Sorry I never visited back. Yes, google tried it with Hangouts. Internationally, you can use Hangouts for wifi calling through google voice, but that did not work in the US for som…

Sorry I never visited back. Yes, google tried it with Hangouts. Internationally, you can use Hangouts for wifi calling through google voice, but that did not work in the US for som…

Fragmented messaging/phone calls and inability to have "seamless" conversations. For example: WhatsApp, iMessages, google voice, SMS, etc. Also for phone calls: FaceTime audio, car…

I am clueless about the right etiquette, but can anyone share some high quality publications in the similar vein? Mainly interested in "head content" that is not a book, but a set …

I think FB does not have to be a PayPal, and there are many good reasons outlined in these comments already why that is a bad idea. However, it can become some kind of market place…

Interesting. I am wondering how this is going to be better/different than a smart search engine, or a travel/review site that may be entrenched in its space for a long time and may…

Interesting concept. I started in the SF bay area in the US, and did not see anything. Then I zoomed out all the way, and Australia lit up with notes :-) Do you plan to add a timel…

Thank you. I was a little concerned when my MBP spewed out a list with this option. I tried a little look-up on why that is normal. From the manpage: When +L is followed by a numbe…