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The Kernel is a rag not even fit to wrap a fish 15 Feb 2013 | 11:25 pm
The title is my twelve-word review of this angry and bilious rant chock-to-the-brim with baseless ad hominem abuse and pseudo-scientific babble: http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/4115/put-a-sock-...
Lean Times for Raganwald 14 Feb 2013 | 07:47 am
As you know, I have been and am a big fan of Leanpub. They do a great job of publishing my books. I embrace both their lean publishing philosophy and the potential of the "long tail" they afford. Whil...
Faux-Privilege vs. Freedom 13 Feb 2013 | 09:09 pm
It's a commonplace thing to encounter super-rational people arguing for more personal responsibility and fewer government "handouts." Amazingly, they frame it as a kind of moral issue: We should all b...
Acts of God 11 Feb 2013 | 09:46 pm
Up here in Canuckistan, we do have private insurance. If you drive, you must privately insure your automobile for libaility in Ontario. You need not insure it against theft. You can set your own deduc...
Competition, Gauge Bosons, and Criticality 6 Feb 2013 | 08:31 pm
I'd like to tell you some of the excellent ways you can grow your brain, get a shot of endorphins and/or adrenaline, and improve your career as a programmer while spending money on someone other than ...
Stop redefining the word "redefining." 6 Feb 2013 | 12:37 am
I keep hearing about this "redefining marriage" business. Please stop calling this "redefining marriage." It's true that older laws used to be discriminatory and that we're removing overly narrow word...
The Superbowl, a Nerds-Eye View. 4 Feb 2013 | 01:13 am
Let's look at this thing dispassionately, shall we? Two teams of approximately 40 people who know what they're doing. 80,000 people who have no idea what's really going on screaming for blood. Rivalr...
@deech's corollary to Norvig's corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming 2 Feb 2013 | 12:58 am
Any sufficiently powerful strongly typed programming language will be abused to create an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of prolog with bad syntax & weird semant...
A modest proposal for fixing the reverse-racism in Black History Month 1 Feb 2013 | 03:28 am
Mr. Concern Troll here. I agree, having a "Black History Month is racist without some kind of "White History Month." I reject the charge that the other eleven months when people are deluged with Euro-...
My Audition for the position of Ambassador-at-Large for Blackberry 31 Jan 2013 | 06:53 pm
Nicky Campbell: What have you learned from Apple? Reg Braithwaite: "You know, people often ask me how to compare our new models to some of the products that people are already using. They ask me wha...
