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im pretty sure everyone knows who he is

removing barriers to entry might make it easier to innovate but it also makes it easy to copycat and beat ideas to death. the first rage comic might have been funny but they just g…

they tried to pass reform, but the office in charge of it keeps getting its funding blocked by congress.

in this case, saying "there's a chance" is the same as saying it's impossible to prove either which way.

you care way too much about what other people think

java is the most used language right now and using the jvm gets you access to all of that infrastructure. it also makes it really easy to port code to linux, macs, windows, phones,…

the little schemer series was very good. you can safely skip the first 5 chapters if you're comfortable with recursion. learn scheme in fixnum days is good too for learning the lan…

what programs do you use to do things that emacs cant?

everyone should just become a computer scientist. problem solved

kay and arr

" a .torrent file pointing to thousands of scientific papers has just been uploaded to the pirate bay" doesnt really fit into a headline

not really. people who do the work are usually pressured to share it, and are ostracized if they don't. I don't really think its fair to punish a victim unless there's some kind of…

I wish it was at least a little more standardized across schools and majors. A little variance is fine but i went to a school where evreryone,not just me, had to study into the nig…

didn't the prehistoric groups of our ancestors probably have some kind of leader or hierarchy?

This is a pretty terrible argument for a guy whose main passion in life is philosophy.

I'm pretty sure it applies more to some jobs then others. I know you're being facetious but the main difference between prostitution and sex is that sex is generally with people yo…

i use mplayer with smplayer and it is amazing. I couldn't watch high res HD on any of my computers with VLC and now i can run it on my old, shitty netbook. I've also heard good thi…

Is it really harder or a just a pain in the ass?

what os are you using? this was a problem for me before i set up hot keys to toggle touchpad on and off.

happened for me since 4. i had to switch to chrome on my netbook :*(

i always hear about how many jobs there are for cobol programmers to maintain legacy code. i've never actually met any though. maybe they all commit suicide.

exactly. if the viewers of these videos intend to become serious software developers then they can just correct whatever wrong shit they learn. if they don't care about best practi…

Is this the one where he talks about how his experience at intel was analogous to steve wozniak's experience at hp? The idea that there were people just as smart and determined as …

why would anyone want to do that?