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If the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.

Consumer electronics are becoming more durable. Where once I might have replaced a cell phone every year and my home router every two, I now have had the same phone for four years …

> The last major reason the F-35 has seen so much criticism is that it was the first jet developed in the social media age. The paradigm shift, cost, and early problems, coupled wi…

Peer-to-peer routing is challenging because you aren't sure where to send your data to reach your peer, even if you know their cryptographic public key and address. It's hard becau…

My Take is that they circumvented the existing protection against brute forcing. The iPhone does this by implementing a countdown timer that prevents trying more than a few passcod…

Chrome and firefox both store saved passwords in plain-text in easily accessible local databases. Don't rely on them to keep passwords safe. I have no experience with IE's password…

Let's not forget Dwarf Fortress, which has several mechanisms that are accidentally turing complete. My favorite is the logic gate using animal behavior. [1] http://dwarffortresswi…

The benefit of this comparison is not that the languages have nearly identical performance, but that OCaml can be briefer while accomplishing the same task, with 47% less lines of …

Being able to compile assembly directly into a C program is a very useful tool for allowing optimizations across embedded assembly. One way around it is use of intrinsics: http://e…

That link has some good references and conclusions based from data. There is a very likely chance that professional programmers can have an impact that is many times that of their …

I dream of one day becoming a test pilot. Especially in ships during their developmental stages, unaccounted for situations will come up, and a human capable of assessing and manag…

Thanks! I'll suggest this to the FBO I fly out of as well.

It's a feature, not a bug.

In the past century, the average retirement age has been steadily decreasing up until very recently when it began going up again[1]. People spend more time in school earlier, but e…

I'm using this wonderful operating system for my own sideproject for LED juggling props. Aside from the strong hardware support and large community behind it, Thingsquare has recen…

According to Thingsquare, Tado is using their firmware [1], Mist, based off of the open source Contiki [2]. This is pretty cool, as it enables a ton of features like over the air f…

This programming problem was what actually got me interested in compilers in the first place. When I was 16 and learning how to program in Java, there was an online competition for…

I've run into something similiar on a different benchmark where inserting some 'nops' to the preamble for a function actually sped it up as much as 14% because it made the function…

Within 10 seconds of loading it up, I had already glitched into a wall and trapped myself in a box. Yep, that's nostalgia.

>even older Russian and Chinese jets that can fly faster and farther and maneuver better Dogfighting is obsolete as homing missiles fly faster, farther, and are more maneuverable t…

"Hardware doesn’t need to become smarter, it just needs to be able to sync with our phones which can do the heavy lifting." General purpose computers are quite good at what they do…

Playing Starcraft is an excellent analogy to playing the piano while also playing chess. I won't speak for designers and Photoshop, but for general computer usage, both strategic t…

The article's title, "Freescale’s Insanely Tiny ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body" is entirely misleading. Has the IoT term really been watered down this mu…

I played to 37 wins with a friend to decide who buys the drinks tonight. By the end, he couldn't choose rock or scissors, and I couldn't choose lizard, and sometimes he would pick …

The main difference between AP tests and college courses is not the material that is covered (roughly comparable), but rather the format in which the knowledge of the material is e…