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Ideas Suck: A Tale of Lust vs Love

Ideas Suck: A Tale of Lust vs Love

I think a lot about why some people are highly productive and successful while others produce nothing in their lifetimes.…

7 months ago

I Just Dumped Whos.amung.us and Chartbeat for Woopra

I recently read perhaps the best book ever written on the American class system, and it set me to thinking…

7 months ago

A List of Different Case Types

Millions of us know the trick of getting our public IP address. Most go to ipchicken or the site aptly…

7 months ago

The Mexican Immigration Solution: Make U.S. Immigration Policy Match Mexico’s

So you’ve replaced Apache with Nginx, or put Varnish out in front of your main webserver. Or maybe you just…

7 months ago

Why We Shouldn’t Call Ourselves Atheists

There was a recent article on the New York Times regarding free will. I posted it here earlier and I…

7 months ago

PayPal and Two-Factor Authentication: A “Weakest Link” Case in Point

I had an interesting idea this weekend regarding the effect that having children has on one’s life views. I was…

7 months ago

Modern Science on Self-Control, and 4 Things You Can Do Immediately to Improve It

Caution, anecdotes ahead. I was reading some symptoms of ADD today and was stunned by the fact that they all…

7 months ago

The Worst Mistake People Make in Political Arguments

Dinis Cruz did a presentation at OWASP recently on why security should be invisible to developers. His basic idea is…

7 months ago

Mac vs. PC Security In One Sentence

It seems the poor and uniformed are partial to the rhetoric of the rich and selfish. This is a most…

7 months ago

How to Tell if Someone is a True Libertarian

[ Sep 12, 2011 ] These are the things I install immediately when I get on a new Windows machine.…

7 months ago