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The ".NET Rocks!" podcast did three GeekOut shows this year on nuclear fusion, which will probably make you only more skeptical of fusion research claims. Fusion Power GeekOut: htt…

I see nothing particularly negative with that. I found it distracting and it struck me as lazy writing. Apparently, though, you can't criticize writing style on HN submissions.

Why acknowledge sample size when snark is on the line?

I'm not saying this to be negative, necessarily, but something struck me in this essay, so I grep'd it. There are 47 instances of "I", by my count.

I've heard (anecdata alert!) that some men get frustrated and will start sending out "form messages" because they will take the time to craft meaningful messages only to get no rep…

I think programming is great, it's people that are terrible. People write horrible APIs and document them poorly (ugh, Microsoft's SetupAPI put me into burnout mode last year). Peo…

It's my recollection that it was very well designed in almost every way aside from appearance . As in, the creature comforts were good, considerations for rear loading, ease of acc…

Couldn't one just as simply say "Programmers are toxic to business. They're classically myopic optimizing for 'fun' technical stacks without understanding the business they're work…

If I remember correctly, legislation was passed in 2007 requiring trains everywhere in the US to blast their horn four times (length unspecified) before every crossing. The only ex…

It's disturbing to see so many people insist that the NFL doesn't "deserve" to be a non-profit, because they don't give enough to charity. The NFL shouldn't qualify as a non-profit…

Yeah, the weird thing is how large and critical these VBA applications are that he works on. Lots of local banks and small businesses have, essentially, their entire business wrapp…

I have an older relative who is still cashing in nicely on his VBA skills. There was a "demand vs pay" graph for tech skills going around awhile. VBA is low demand, but among the h…

I always find stories like this troubling because 1) how much of it was actually driven by the parents? 2) what's going to happen when it's no longer a quirky action by a cute litt…

I took a trip to ground zero for today's computer revolution, Stanford University, and randomly asked over a dozen students if they knew who were the first computer programmers. Al…

you're saying that CCleaner is a bad idea simply because they cannot possibly understand the registry well enough to make the changes that they're making. It sounds more like, "the…

reddit hires incompetent people who are not getting much work done. That explains why I don't recall ever seeing a new user feature (e.g. tagging, user blocking, a useful save or s…

As someone who graduated with a math minor and promptly forgot the vast majority of what he learned, something that really messed me up were gaps in my education. For example, I to…

A corporate trainer once told me there's specific kinds of learners. I don't believe there is compelling evidence that this is the case. Instead, different people have different ba…

Project Euler. Also, the whole 'kata' movement, where you write and rewrite relatively brief solutions to problems until you master them.

I went to college in the late 90's, before laptops were really viable for use in lectures (despite what I recall from the 1986 movie Back to School). We did have our math class in …

In my opinion, the problem is that drivers, by and large, are absolutely terrible at driving. They're so bad at driving that they have no idea how bad they are at it. We're a natio…

“The reason mountain biking is so popular,” says Charlie Kelly, “is that it’s one of the only ways in modern life that you can turn on your adrenaline pump, and leave it on for a l…

My revisionist view of the mountain bike craze is to see it as a natural reaction to what politicians, planners and motorists were doing to our roads. I disagree with this entirely…

there isn't really a $400 category for mountain bikes ... then there are the $1000+ bike store bikes. That's not quite accurate. Here's a random example: http://www.rei.com/c/mount…

I would say that if you're riding on rough terrain (e.g. rocky, boulder-strewn, heavily rutted, etc.), you would be shocked at what you can do on a full suspension bike. I know I s…