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This is a subject that is very dear to me, so I will try not to rant about it. There are a couple of things "wrong" with the way we teach kids computers today. Our educators are in…

>Can a very minimal gcc be written which would be capable of bootstrapping the entire gcc compiler? Yes. In fact, this is how gcc is built - in stages. First stage: build a compile…

Take the new iPhone 5C. Turn it over. Look at the position of the Apple logo, and the "iPhone" brand. Put the case on it. Turn it over, look at the position of the Apple logo, and …

I was impressed by his lack of interest in Harry Potter, as I consider it a pox on modern culture, but saddened by his lack of interest in music. To each, their own .. but I hope h…

He needs to get help starting a hackerspace. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ There is no better way to treat Genius than to let it propagate, and no better way to propagate knowledge…

Every time I see these Venus pictures, I think about all the dull, lifeless, empty places on Earth that a spacecraft could land in, and lead us to conclude that there's nothing of …

Read the article. The Archeological record is there for your interest.

You didn't post any evidence, but lots of theory, whereas there is plenty of evidence that the human species does indeed manage to survive .. in spite of ones best efforts.

A good sign that its being managed.

Actually, its a view supported by evidence, whereas your view is supported by .. superstition, scientifically described but nevertheless: still superstition.

We managed to survive. We'll continue to manage to survive: if we manage. Welcome to logical positivism. :P

We've already demonstrated that we can bend physical laws to our needs, or have you missed that point in your rush to cast away any faith in the human species' ability to manage it…

Remind me, with science: When were we humans last wiped out, again?

.. okay, fine: then you go and see how we've managed our resources in .. oh, lets just take - The Whole of Europe - and compare. Just because some humans 'are stupid' doesn't mean …

> Past performance doesn't guarantee future returns. You might want to consult the factual record of tens of thousands of years of farmers on that particular point of view. ;) You …

What I know of the Pirate Party is that they are suffering for their own collective weakness and inability to organize. It is a fallacy that 'safety in (representative) numbers' is…

Its a projection of Malthusian ethics: "Humans are stupid". Actually the point of this article is: "Evidence suggests that despite what we think: Humans are smart".

>The main failure of this article is that it assumes that social problems are outside biology and that they are easy to solve. The main point of this article is that the archeologi…

Fixed ideas being challenged is exactly what science - not superstition - is all about. The point of the article is we wouldn't be here today at all if we hadn't been able to manag…

Because you don't know that you can just cut the data wires in a cheap USB cable, and want to be 'protected' by a cool hipster toy that'll sit in your laptop/phone baggie until you…

Doesn't work for me: $ npm start > coder-base@0.0.1 start /Users/seclorum/hak/coder/coder-base > node server.js no certificate found. generating self signed cert. WARNING: unhandle…

Growing up in a remote Australia desert beach, I spent a lot of time playing with creatures like this (among many others) and I have come to love them with a great deal of passion.…

Yikes, what a terrible name for this thing. How do you pronounce it? Lets break it down: Option 1: "Gr-II-P" .. gripe. Yeah, I ride my gripe around. Option 2: "Gr-AY-p" .. yeah, I'…

.. or, take over a project that was done by a competent developer who knew what they were doing and were able to communicate that knowledge through their codebase to anyone else wh…

Yeah, I agree with you: 'just because' .. the author of the article doesn't know anything about protocol buffers, node.js and Cassandra. Probably because those things are 'too new'…