mjgoins

Same with firefox on debian. I sure hope this article is good after I put so much work into enabling it.

Her punishment was illegal under the 8th amendment, and her "crime" was protected whistleblowing.

When I went to the first semester of engineering school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, there was a class called Engineering Professional Development 160: Introduction to Engineering.

One of the early class sessions was a lecture from a guy at a power tool company, making some kind of jigsaw or handheld cutting tool.

He explicitly told us, paraphrasing, "You don't want to make your product too reliable, because people won't buy more of them, and you won't make as much money". I was horrified, literally looked around at my classmates to see how horrified they would be, none of them were. I ended up majoring in philosophy.

Of course this site is dedicated to the idea he expressed, so I am not looking for agreement here, just relaying what I consider an interesting historical fact.

I think they misspelled Ang Cui's name in this article.

If Mark Zuckerberg were held responsible for snippets of casual conversations had amongst peers behind closed doors and as a very young adult...best case scenario he'd be flipping burgers, worst case he'd be behind bars.

Yeah common Scandinavian name, same as Thor, essentially.

A better title: Your Brain is Not an IBM-Compatible PC with 64k of RAM

Uh yeah, the US had tests. They were there to prevent black people from voting.

If you like Sleep's Dopesmoker, the next logical step is Conference of the Birds, by OM.

You can see how long someone has been away from their irc session with: /whois username

The scare quotes are not in the article title.

Unless they cared about preserving the state of the moon for future scientists without leaving human corpses lying around.

Is it just me or does it seem like the video was altered to make the motion smoother? Maybe it's just a very jittery robot.