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Hmm... I'm not convinced. I think you want john carmack as an engineer with a lot of freedom and resource and a limited amount of management responsibilities. He seems far better suited to being first among equals (first among equal engineers) than to being a technical business-decision maker. Give him the role of arguing for the right decisions rather than making them, and I think you'll get a lot better value for your money.

Google's stated goal is to organize the world's information. That (presumably) includes linking and making easily searchable all those pseudonyms at those diverse forums you use. Trusting that those bits of interaction will stay nicely in their own corners is like trusting that only your high-school buddies will see that compromising picture you just posted on Facebook.

This does make me wonder if the shape of the Tesla's underbody (very flat [1]) is such that debris is more likely to make a direct rather than glancing impact. Perhaps Tesla should take a leaf out medieval armor design and add more contour to the bottom of their car so that it can shed impacts more successfully.

[1] http://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/non-make/fe/fe_9171228_600...

I agree. Google doesn't seem to understand that the way in which a thing is expressed is important. It's like they don't understand the difference between something announced at a press conference, and something mentioned in passing to a friend. My inability to reason about the social context of online interactions tends to seriously discourage me from expressing much in an non-(semi)-anonymous way.

Everyone knows that scheduled downtime doesn't count as downtime.

That puts a whole new light on the line, "the world's most human wasn't human at all." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo#t=125

Is anyone maintaining a reasonably exhaustive, searchable index of these resources? If you have a particular subject you want to learn about it can be difficult to get a good picture of what resources are available.

edit: just saw bruceb's link to http://www.coursebuffet.com . thanks.

Now, if only they could maintain long term support for their own services, everything would be great.

This is a set of magnets that counts down from 14 days.

If you s/anti-government/anti-government surveillance/ then I think the article would be considerably improved. Was Lavabit explicitly anti-government?

I'll be sure to pass your criticism on to Winston Churchill.

Yep. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.

sometimes you can't even really express what the problem is, until you've taken a stab a solving it. The problem might be something like 'This feature is awkward and doesn't feel quite right.' When I'm doing exploratory coding, I need to be able to feel my way through a problem. I have yet to learn to do that from the vantage of tests, and am somewhat skeptical that I ever will.

It could be anything embarrassing or that would be dangerous/costly to talk about. Government interference is only one possibility. Maybe a competitor paid them to shutdown. (probably not, but it's possible)

Net worth is probably not a great metric. There are a lot of well-paid people in the US who live expensive, flashy lifestyles that cost them just a little more than they earn every year, and consequently have a negative or near zero net-worth. I don't think most people would consider them have-nots.

It's a shame that CogniToy's MindRover is not mentioned, it really captured my imagination, and I wish there were more games like it. It does appear to be sadly defunct, however.

hmm.. line feed for open paren, carriage return for close paren, non-breaking space for token seperator?

Doesn't the reliability of bitcoin stem from it being very difficult for any one entity to control over 50% of the computing power in the network? News like this makes it seem like a state sponsored actor could do it without too much trouble.

Hmmm... if your password was password30jf0sd09jga09ja0i9sdfasi09djf0-sdj9faspiodjf and they only used the first 8 characters, you'd think you had a strong password, but would really have a very weak password. Hashing then truncating as discussed above would be much safer.

At least this petition clearly asks for something within the remit of presidential power, unlike most other ones (including Tesla's).

Even state supreme courts seem to sometimes have trouble determining what "navigable" means.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-218.pdf

The core.match example uses python-style triple quotes. Is that actually possible in clojure? I would be enormously excited if it is.

In this case, he sprayed the crop grown from the seed bought from the grain elevator with roundup. This is how everyone knew that it was in fact roundup ready.

It would be interesting to see a case where The seed were used as if they were conventional soybeans, especially if the farmer didn't know that they contained patented genes.

According to my (inexpert) reading of the opinion, it wouldn't matter and the result would have been the same. But maybe there are other defenses that could have been employed if the facts were different. Certainly the policy argument would look a lot different, even if the legal argument remained the same.