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Interesting article. One can easily notice that most folks seem to treat the speed limit as a minimum speed rather than a maximum speed. It's not just designers designing for speed…

I feel for your brother and understand your fatherly fears. I have three sons. They are all fine now, but ... One got hit by a drunken driver, one broke his neck, and the other fel…

I still have one of these from the 1964 World's Fair. I figure it's worth at least - oh - ten cents.

So I had this clever little comment worked out. I was going to say that a formula for designing a unique building - and, hence, gaining a star reputation - would be to pick a desig…

Ha! Great story. My favorite line: "It's hard nowadays to find an honest man who stays bought."

Strong position? Do you mean the Post Office thing? Or the "Balderdash" comment warning about getting distracted by generalizing people? Or did you mean the joke about getting ads …

Thanks. Now stop being distracted.

This is all very interesting. So far it seems to be used to show me adverts for stuff I have already bought.

Balderdash! How many people are in the baby boom generation? And you paint them all with one bush? Do you do the same for people of a particular race? Upon closer inspection you wi…

All this increased digital surveillance comes at a time when the US Post Office is under artificial financial pressure. Just last night the news reported a plan to eliminate direct…

Please forgive my rudimentary (and possible erroneous understanding. There are three things important to public-key encryption. The public key, the private key (together called the…

What I'd like to see (Monty Python Gumby) is some dates on his web page. Maybe a GitHub page. I got Incosolata a few years ago and have been using it since, but he says he's workin…

For my 86 year old mother Facebook has been a boon and a great confusion. She keeps asking me about how people send her messages. There's email. There's Facebook Messages. There's …

Thanks. I didn't know that and wondered where they went.

"Fix the problem, not the blame." - I first heard this in the movie Red October, I think. The other one that come to mind is John Wooden, the famous basketball coach, claiming that…

How does ctags do when a variable name is repeated in a different scope? I do rather wish for a really good vim type replacement for the editor in NetBeans though. I keep inadverte…

As quickly as you can turn your back on Visual Studio. (Sorry, just kidding ... sort of.) Eclipse and NetBeans are a couple IDEs (there are others) that use a module system to buil…

Uh oh. After a few decades of Unix I _still_ have a poor understanding, sniff. I have in years past used sed and awk and perl -e and other such to rename as well other things. Howe…

Thanks for the reply. ctags is a great tool, but it is not as easy as an IDE. IDEs keep track without my having to explicitly rebuild the tag data base. IDEs have plugins for diffe…

I agree that many underestimate the power of bash for development. Make, in particular, is much more widely usable. However, there are some things that I find very convenient in an…

You sound angry. Not sure why. Some feel that his tax evasion efforts are unseemly. Not sure why you're focused on his lucky strike.

Et toi! Laissez les bon temps rouler!

I've had a better time learning German than other languages just because my grandparents were German speakers. So as a small child I heard sounds which help my accent today. So jus…

Let's see, Eduardo invested $30,000 in Facebook? And he's perceived (so he can borrow) to be worth over three billion now. So he can afford to invest $30,000 again about 100,000 ti…

tl;dr; Unpolished speaker is right.