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Hey! My first introduction to software engineering was via HyperCard in an advanced elementary school math class in the Texas public school system in the early 90s. I have made a n…

What's weak about the grandmother effect? Selective pressure absolutely applies outside of reproductive phases of the individual. Evolution happens at the genetic level, not only a…

WSJ does not claim google is guilty in this article. The title is factual. What would you suggest they title the article? "anything else they publish about google" is pretty wildly…

It worked out very well for the founders of all of those companies.

Regular expressions (regexp) can be understood at a pretty impactful level within a solid hour of focus. For all the developers or even just heavy computer users, the ability to fi…

True. I have a Chevy volt, which I love. The check engine light came on while under powertrain warranty. It took them 5 days to upgrade the software to fix the problem, and they ch…

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh The proof of Fermat's last theorem has…

I've had a similar problem several times, and Microsoft was always able to manually activate after I called and explained the hard drive change.

I thought the point of watermarking is to prevent people from using your images without your branding, but if it's done on the client side, it's easy to circumvent: http://brianium…

It's possible the person didn't say anything about Chrome, or since all of the direct responses reference Chrome, it's also possible the parent comment was edited.

As someone who is considering using a JavaScript framework for client-side rendering on a new application, this strikes me as an anecdotal over-simplification. We can find terrible…

Safari still uses WebKit, but Chrome has been using a WebKit fork called Blink since version 28.

I'm working on a static site generation web app as well, although mine won't be self hosted. Good luck to you! For me it was a convergence of: 1) Outstanding cost/benefit of static…

This is related to a question I was just pondering. I'm developing a web application that relies heavily on JavaScript for a lot of the interactivity. I was planning on devoting a …

Not a direct answer to your question, since I graduated from a traditional university with a degree in computer engineering and have been doing contract work for over a decade, but…

I think you might be mistaken: "Dear Lessig Lawrence (Lawrence Lessig), ... These forums are intended for technical questions that can be answered by the community. We want everyon…

1. "So as we enter a Brave New World where huge monolithic companies such as yourself began to possibly test ways to take out old phones so that customers have to go purchase new o…

Here's the actual kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5livesstudios/satellite-...

For sure. Not saying it's a poor choice. As a frequent buyer of used books on amazon, I was interested in the details and thought I would share in case anyone else had the same que…

It looks like this only applies to books that were purchased new through amazon. Used books purchased through amazon marketplace are not included: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.…