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Anyone else find the constantly refreshing search results annoying? If so, do you know of any cognitive psychology literature to explain why? I personally find this instant search …

I'm missing something important. How does this relate to Stanford?

I have been struggling with a modification of: Guy: “If I gave you a million dollars, would you sleep with me?” Girl: “A million dollars is a lot of money, and you don’t look that …

Anyone else ironically hoping MS creates a better iPad just for the opportunity to install Linux on it?

Didn't Tesla claim to have developed wireless power a long time ago. Those more familiar with Tesla/Physics ... is this the same technology?

How is this better than JITting? It seems like most recent performance gains come from runtime/dynamic optimizations, not static/compile time optimizations.

on second thought, my comment makes little sense, if they wanted noisy sleep, it should be something like sleep(func(rand()))

is sleep(1) noisy? if so, it might be vs timing attacks

This looks pretty cool. However, if it's actually useful, why wasn't it invented layer as part of OpenGL / taught in standard graphics courses? Given that OpenGL already has the 3D…

Subtitled: How to surround yourself with smart people outside of academia? To me, the greatest advantage of being a CS professor, is being surrounded by lots of smart, motivated co…

If my company is incorporated in DE, but I live in CA, yet I only sell iPhone apps, do I have to pay CA corporate taxes? [Does selling iPhone apps count as doing business i CA?]

Yeah ... but what type of real world data is sparse?

Besides MRI research, has any useful applications come out of this?

Why is 48 laws of power BS? There are rules in the book that contradict each other, but it provides a framework for recognizing patterns of human behavior and analyzing it.

After reading 48 Laws of Power, I started seeing interactions between 1) others & myself, 2) others & others in a completely different light. There were these mental "hooks" I coul…

GPUS: nVidia/ATI have amazing toolchains, especially CUDA. FPGAS: we have amazingly bad toolchains

Friends of friends have recently tried to sell me USANA products. Analyzing it, the math looks a bit suspicious to me; but I couldn't find much on Google about this company. Do oth…

I want to register a C corporation. However, I don't want it to link directly back to me (this is not for tax dodging; I will happily pay my taxes). I just want my involvement with…