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I don't remember the last time I got such a chuckle out of a domain name, but this one is great.

USA is commonly known as America, and the fact that some variant of this comment always surfaces when it's referred to as such won't change that.

One line that made an impression on me when I read this book a few years ago: "Having GNU Emacs is like having a dragon's cave of treasures" Meanwhile, the best I can muster about …

This is a surprising to me since, of Robinson's work, I've only read Aurora. One of the primary impressions it had on me was the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the futi…

I think it might be an interesting approach to run a kickstarter-style campaign for each major software release, and once the goal is reached, release the software with a normal op…

This is complete speculation, but perhaps an interesting idea. What if the recent turmoil in China's stock market is a direct result of the US retaliation for this incident? Clearl…

The original paper says that you can repeat the workout 2-3 times, time permitting, but does not state that it's required in order to get the benefits of the workout. In fact, the …

This also reminded me of the "Archangel" class ships described in Endymion by Dan Simmons. FTL travel on these ships instantly kills all passengers but then conveniently resurrects…

The 'r' is the zeroth character of course.

I'm not involved in HFT, but I imagine the following scenario is plausible: You place a limit order to buy FOO at $32 Someone else offers FOO at $31.90 A HFT algorithm buys FOO at …

I won't dispute the utility and versatility of UNIX tools, but your comment that "nearly everything we use today is Unix" is wildly off the mark. According to the following article…

Anyone have any insight as to how Go will avoid the garbage collection latency issues that arise in some situations with other GC languages, such as those that run on the JVM or CL…

1) Is it toxic? 2) Does it affect the flavor in any way? 3) Have we forgotten about the existence of plastic squeezable bottles?

Interesting, well written article. However I was surprised to be made aware of the existence of a logician named Haskell Curry. The name struck me as the punchline to a joke only t…