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"I'm glad that you like the counting crows, especially the old stuff, but some new stuff too how about me, though personally I don't like the counting crows, especially the old stu…

This seems like a complete homerun for small to medium sized businesses like the one I'm working in now, provided that's a major focus and their specific needs are met (monitoring,…

I read Snow Crash once a year (usually I listen to the audiobook these days) but I'm thinking of switching up to the Baroque Cycle. I'm glad there's finally an unabridged Cryptonom…

That book kind of begs for the performance.

Jury Nullification?

It's just CC, not "open source," but there are plenty of places (i.e. Flickr) where you can share your assets for others to use. I've had people contact me about using some of my p…

Probably from a technical lawyery standpoint that's not enforceably clear, but from the standpoint of someone who uses paid creative assets as part of my regular work, it's certain…

Is this effective at stopping attacks (given that it is public knowledge), or is it mostly a measure to annoy users into updating their passwords to something less cumbersome?

The beginning of this article reads eerily similar to the beginning of Greg Egan's Diaspora, though in a much more limited context.

Also you don't need an e-mail address to register, and some people don't care about karma, so some people like me just create a new account whenever my saved login info is lost for…

No mention of the debug checkbox? That's one of the coolest parts of this to me.

Agreed, FTL is a rich and fun game where death is permanent and even a successful game could take little more than an hour, but the game still easily provides weeks worth of enjoym…

He feels anti-corporate, quirky but not annoyingly so. He absolutely has his own brand so where it once felt refreshing now it just feels sandwich, but it's not to a point where th…

Run an A/A/B (or A/A/B/B) test, decide on traffic levels before you start the test, and let it run until you reach those levels before you peek.

I use it as a brain dump to think about what I want to write, and it seems to work. I write better when I have a decent plan about what I want to write, and I use 750 words to work…

Interesting. I like my Root Beer (Hanks, when I have my druthers) very much, not sure I'd like it more if it tasted like it's "supposed to". Sounds like the government stole his ro…

To describe it would be to ruin it. Take the lollipop.

Yeah, that's what makes it different from just being a third party merchant on Amazon.

So "This is a very common attack on the Internet that we didn't do much to protect you against by default"? It's a pain setting up two step authentication across a lot of services,…

Looks like it depends on gyroscope data gathered while capturing video in this case. But I agree that a solution like Microsoft's not commercially available Hyperlapse solution is …

One example: http://oddorama.com/2008/02/11/scamming-the-scammers-5-brill...

I've read Snow Crash yearly since I discovered the book some 14 years ago. I guess that's how I deal with the fact that Stephenson often doesn't know how to end a novel. I ached fo…

This sums up my thoughts exactly. The pilot-wave theory "...seems to me so natural and simple, to resolve the wave-particle dilemma in such a clear and ordinary way, that it is a g…

As a Game Master we could see all these hidden communications betweens addons, and it would dwarf the amount of true communication a player would participate in. A raid group could…

Yeah, I've had no trouble dipping my toes in, trying things out, and then expanding beyond the simpler stuff to more advanced things. In a couple months my company has achieved som…