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“LiveJournal’s Moscow-based owner Sup yesterday laid off most of its remaining San Francisco staff in a restructuring that will also involve the departure of VP and GM Matt Berardo after just seven months, we have confirmed. The rejigging means product source...

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“ Many people, so questioned, don't know how to answer in exquisitely rigorous detail. Nonetheless they would not be wise to abandon the concept of 'truth'. There was a time when no one knew the equations of gravity in exquisitely source...

“Science-based medicine is more than a website. It is a philosophy of medicine that is actively vying with other philosophies for dominance in the world of medicine. We believe that medicine should be based upon the best science available, according source...

Bertrand Russell once remarked "Give me any false statement and any other statement to prove and I will prove it," and I'll be cribbing from him here to use "1 = 2" to prove that I am a walrus. (He more...

“...GM is now the counter example. Today, if your company is like GM, it's in deep trouble. Instead, pundits point to Microsoft. Microsoft is the role model. It is the highest-valued company on Earth. It produces intangibles. It rides the source...

“For this project I used the Verilog hardware description language to design a brute force DES key cracker nicknamed [Red] to search the abbreviated keyspace of the LM algorithm. The search is done by hardware running on a Altera Cyclone source...

“Turley, there is an error in your logic. You are assuming all the deferred revenue is attributable to the iPhone. Remember that revenues related to AppleCare and Apple TV's are also included in that number. Margins on AppleCare are likely source...

Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine more...

“ Pros: Having site navigation remain on-screen may increase the chance that people will visit interior pages. Ads in columns remain on-screen longer which could increase visibility. Cons: More interface logic to maintain. Scroll behavior may be confusing. May be source...

“Some people believe that children should be allowed to use their minds as freely and imaginatively as possible, without attention to the tedious laws of rationality.  Others think that a child is never too young to get his or her more...

“ Most modern programming languages, including object-oriented languages, are imperative: A program is essentially a list of instructions intended to be executed in order. Functional programming languages derive from the declarative style branch of the language tree, where there need source...

Logical fallacies bother me, so I wrote a post about a commonly misunderstood one, and its twin concept in economic choice

“We’ve read a few articles lately claiming that survival is not a strategy. The arguments in Anand Rajaraman’s article on GigaOM last month are sound, and if we understand them correctly include not prolonging a business that will never likely source...

I prefer my own ways but looks interesting.