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Commenters have mentioned both Dunning-Kruger and Gell-Mann Amnesia. Gell-Mann Amnesia is rather strictly defined by its creator in the journalism domain, but perhaps it could be s…

Arrrgh!

The price point is way out of line. $25 ???

comments here that allude to the history of spaghetti code are actually a bit off topic with respect to the article, but the early fortran family (pointedly - F66) had severly limi…

to pull one's chain, to see what kind of reaction he'd get from whatever suckers and chumps he can fool with this BS or he really believes this BS and has narcissistic personality …

A while back (seems like it's been about a year) Radio Shack solicited ideas to make their stores more relevant. I suggested they install 3d printers in every store to bring hobbyi…

For those who aren't well read (grin) a very good read looking at a dystopian future where 3d printers have displaced manufacturing is Cory Doctorow's "Makers". The Creative Common…

Absolutely you do not have to subject yourself to his whims. You would be free to walk out the door if you found the grammar test offensive, or the push-ups test, or the rope-skipp…

Pretty awesome distillation of the history of software tools since, oh, no later than 1980. Back in the dino days, the rate of change was tiny compared to today's daily delta V. We…

I'm really excited to see this concept made real. Based on comments here, multi-factor (non-wallet) authentication is used to identify the parties. This method of ID verification i…

Ummm. Step 1 of any 12 Step program.

Vague indeed. For example, what does "universal access" mean? How about "free to connect"? Is this declaration demanding that access to the internet be free to all? As in no cost? …

That's an interesting site, very nice lessons. But one would have to actually read the material to understand the chart (grin). But that chart is getting on toward what I expected …

Snnnzx.. wha? This may best thought of as a lexical analysis of 1300 popular novels. E.G. what is the most popular word following the word "it". The key of a tune 'controls' the ch…

Why don't you ask "What's the least efficient way to print a string 100 times?" Unrolling loops can be a good thing when optimizing code, but you can't get much worse than tail rec…

take it to reddit

Oh all right. Great job.

dang! don't do this! don't teach anybody how to use emacs! it's my productivity secret weapon and I don't wanna share!

seems to me that in the last, oh, call it 9 months to a year that Google has been building up speed to jump a mighty big shark. maybe this trend goes back as far as when they reali…

I'd tend to agree since that (having kids) applies to me. There's clearly a filtering effect, probably eliminating more experienced people. However, he apparently has no shortage o…

No No NO. There really Really REALLY has never been a satisfactory set of metrics for code quality. Not for COBOL and not for rails.

Heh. My wife was turned down for a product management position because she did not send a thank you note. She forgot because she was (we were) so excited about the position. The hi…