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Bitcoin is not susceptible to market control like eBay. eBay is a single entity so it is easy to coordinate self-serving decision. Bitcoin is multiple agents that have to co-operat…

I think the kickstarter backers are really both investors and customers. They are investors because they do take a risk by paying for a product that doesn't yet exist. This leap of…

FYI, Einstein was not a bad student. ( http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/albert-einst... ). It's just a myth. Having a degree does not magically make you more qualifi…

It runs much faster with Chrome and Safari due to their better Javascript VM.

The main thing I take away from this is that he is not a professional photographer. Of course an amateur can afford to give away photos for free! However, I'm not sure he even real…

It's disappointing you have to pay to see the original Science paper.

He is a victim here, why blame the victim over the perpetrators? Makes little sense to me. As well as saying "evil flourishes"...

It's amazing the authors of the paper didn't realize they were disproving their own conclusion with their results.

The doc at http://www.phzbox.com/moka/index.html is pretty complete. The only thing I find is missing is a few words about efficiency. Does calling List(l) copy the list l for exam…

troll, also assuming roughly uniform paragraph lengths removing every third word is the same as removing every third paragraph. Maybe we're not as smart as you thought.

His main point is that Common Lisp is better than Scheme when you need to get things done. Scheme may be more elegant, but it's not developed with a focus on practical utility (i.e…

Well I guess one difference between what he's proposing and mysql is that mysql forces you to write data abstractions that can fit into mysql. Same goes for NoSQL DBs. Using his ap…

When you say old-school DB do you mean something like mysql?

37signals are known and celebrated for their design style, and I think it's awesome that they are willing to experiment with new ideas and discard old ones. Particularly because th…

I disagree with you because in some projects technical correctness is not the first priority. So why should you sacrifice everything in favor of it? In some settings, coding an ad-…

For the record, I didn't write this. One of my friends must have played a trick on me.

Love it. One minor detail: on the ipad it doesn't automatically switch between songs, you have to press play each time. I don't know if that can be fixed though.

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Javascript is dramatically faster using Safari 4+.