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It may be long, but this song makes up for it: http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/kamsingsong/

You know "waxing" means "growing," not "talking," right?

This will be a huge change for people who live in cities, but are currently effectively disconnected from one another. Imagine even just knowing the name of each person you pass on…

It's not a well-worded sentence, but what he means is that if you have to call out an ugly hack, the REST of the code is probably pretty decent. If the code is full of ugly hacks, …

WTF? I didn't pay for bugs, I paid for software. If it's buggy and they don't want to support it, they should sell it at a discount. If they charge me for a complete product, but t…

Yeah, this is basically just Newton's method of approximation, seeded with a random initial value. It will eventually converge on a local maximum defined by the facial recognition …

The argument isn't about computing, it's about naming. The argument here is whether a Turing machine is really "universal".

"If openness means to 'go with the flow', it is necessarily an accommodation to the present. That present is so closed to doubt about so many things impeding the progress of its pr…

A few examples: 1. Compose and email to a friend in gmail. Type an address, then select it. Bring up taskfox, type "map this" (without hitting enter). A preview from Google Maps wi…

Choosing different providers is embedded deeply and transparently. The default commands can be disabled individually, and new commands are subscribed to (similarly to RSS) from any…

It's not just size, there's the issue of adding significant (potentially > 1 full second) latency to a "please wait" animation. This is about 4 times longer than the longest time a…

What I've found helps with concentration is to listen to a piece I'm really familiar with, or at least something with a simple, predictable melody. It uses a lot less of my attenti…

What other things might legitimately make a difference?

SO gives power only to people who have given some indication that they are already part of the "community." Answer a few questions, get a few "points," and then you'll be able to r…

There's always NYC Resistor. http://www.nycresistor.com/

Let me Wikipedia that for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution :-)

oh snap!