"one of the primary reasons that Google can write and open-source so much software is that it isn't a software company": http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
China's ethnocentrism Problem - It is thus hard to imagine China welcoming millions of hard-working Nigerians and Bangladeshis with open arms. This could change over the next couple of decades as China's labor shortage grows acute. I wouldn't bet on it. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Wikipedians are 80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85 percent without children, and around 70 percent of them are under the age of 30. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
The New Yorker reviews SuperFreakonomics: "To be skeptical of climate models and credulous about things like carbon-eating trees and cloudmaking machinery and hoses that shoot sulfur into the sky is to replace a faith in science with a belief in science fiction." - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Codec problems with PS3 Media Server. Some newer videos don't play sound using PS3MS, but play fine in the latest VLC release when I run on my desktop. Can the codecs be updated manually? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Rupert Murdoch wants to find ways to block Google from indexing his news sites. I guess meta name="robots" isn't good enough for him. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"That's a specious distinction, even if I can understand their interpretation. It's just easier that:1. Templates <=> Rails Views (they both define how data is presented to the client). The biggest difference is that it's easier to include business logic in Rails Views because the Erb template language is as expressive as Ruby itself, while the Django template is deliberately restrictive.2. Django Views <=> Rails Controllers (they both process requests). The biggest difference is that data is passed explicitely from a Django View to its Template, while data is passed implicitely from a Rails Controller to its View."
- Olifante
"The returns to scale for being smart, young, skilled, & high-energy have gone up tremendously": http://startupboy.com/2009...
Ask Proggit: I'm looking to learn as much as I can about audio software programming, but it seems to be something of a black art. What resources do you recommend? - http://www.reddit.com/r...