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Pirate Bay blog explaining the add at http://thepiratebay.org/blog/185. The people who run the Pirate Bay are pretty pissed at Paypal for terminating Wikileaks' account.

Steve Jobs, talking about the Iphone 4 reception problem said, "We're not perfect. Phones are not perfect. We all know that. But we want to make our users happy." Guess he came off as a little arrogant.

People tend to score comments based on who says it as well as what is said. Simple change I think could improve signal-noise ratio: Make username invisible until after an upvote, or disable upvoting after viewing the…

This is pretty funny.

I gotta say this sounds like a huge timesaver. I waste so much time cleaning my apartment. I can't wait till I can just have google organize my stuff.

This is something that's been bothering me since I've learned C. Take the following code: *(int*)pointer_param = bar; In the above code the two * operators do two different things: 1. Converts variable type to pointer.…

There's only so many transformations of bits people will pay money for. Do you ever worry we'll run out?

Not the original title, I'm used a URL shortener and changed the title because I think I tripped the spam filter. Something to think about for anybody looking at a profitable exit. You all have any good quitting stories?

Something to consider for those looking at a profitable exit. Anybody out there have any interesting quitting/firing stories?

Something to consider for those of you looking at a good exit. Anybody here have any interesting stories to share?

First I was going to ask how long you think a function should be, but there are lots of cases where using short functions is convenient. Instead I'd like to ask what's the longest you'll let a function get in a given…

Simply amazing. Must Watch!

While I'm working I occasionally encounter incredibly subtle features of applications I'm using that amaze me. Examples: 1. Emacs iterative search ignores case unless you type a capital letter in the search-string.…

Anybody know of any case where there was an ISP that was by design not capable of identifying its' customers? Are there any laws specifically against charging for anonymous wireless access?

Funding everything through inflation gives every US dollar-using person in the world an incentive to get the feds to operate efficiently. Good idea? Bad idea? Think that government officials will just issue all the…

Everybody here knows if the leaks from the treaty are real ACTA will be a very bad thing. Since negotiations are supposed to conclude in January 2010 it's probably best people start raising hell now. I've called and…

What is better about C-style syntax versus parens? Lisp's syntax makes macros and structured editing easier, what techniques does C-syntax enable?

I think part of the reason Guile failed is that it just sort of petered out. I think any attempt to replace elisp with scheme will have to start with a bang to overcome network effects. The hypothetical nonprofit would…

It's easy to program in an imperative style in lisp. I can't think of any language feature C has that can't be used by lisp. Why can't lisp become as fast as C by using only a fast subset of a given lisp dialect?* *I…

I usually don't stay logged in accounts important to me very long because I'm paranoid about cross-site tracking using cookies. The solution, I think, would to be to change the way firefox handles cookies, such that I…

Yes, computer-science -> informatics

No, don't change