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I switched mostly to using an RSS reader to see the headlines, and then read what is interesting. Plus I follow several writers that I trust (eg. Heather Cox Richardson). I don't w…

Machines are mostly used to count votes. Ballots are still on paper.

For one thing, why is the text of posting light grey on greyish background? It's almost unreadable on a phone.

So, number of software developers doubles roughly about every 5 years. So if you have been in the field for 5 years, half of the developers will be younger than you, if you were in…

As I recall, Assembler was the first "no-code" tool. After all you could get rid of all those pesky programmers who knew all the number codes for instructions. Anyone could write "…

As a comedian once said "They say that alcohol kill brain cells. Yeah, but only the weak ones!"

Who owns the wires?

You need an app to give your seat up to a pregnant woman?! WTF? What happened to manners?

There is a great advantage to an e-Reader (like Kindle) in that you can turn any book into a large print book. As you get older and you eyesight gets worse this is no small advanta…

Actually the health cost really ramp up when 20 or 30 somethings start having kids.

LOL. They had to drop the public option just to get the Democrats to in the Senate to vote for the bill. Single payer would not have gotten anywhere. Never mind that it's the Congr…

Krugman often reviews his past predictions and admits when he is wrong: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31524-ten-years-later-...

I think he does admit his mistakes: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/mistakes/

The book "To Engineer is Human" by Henry Pertroski describes many, many examples of this. Every software engineer should read it.

As a parent of two grown children, I can tell you that the answer is a big NO. Make sure your kids have fun and are happy, and develop into compassionate people.

Check out this course: https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730

The Poles certainly got the ball rolling (see http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/virtualbp/poles/poles.htm ), but the organization at Bletchley Park took decryption and analysis of …

The story of the Enigma is quite complex. But by 1941 the Allies knew how the machine worked (there were commercial Enigmas sold before the war). The Naval Enigma was somewhat more…

It's bit of history. At one time all this info was transmitted via telegraph/telex where number of characters mattered.

Maybe http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/project-shield/ can help?

The New Yorker had a pretty good review of this movie: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/keeping-secrets...

There are plenty guitar amplifiers still made with tubes. Look up Fender Twin for example.

Next time you are on an airliner think what kind of "work ethic" you'd like your pilot to have. One who puts in 80 hours a week, or a "lazy" one who only works 30 hours per week. (…

Unlike in the past when the elderly lived and were supported by their kids....

Not much stability with the current Congress.