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In both health and information security it’s easy to become conceptually
constrained by external advice, recommendations, and standards. The numbers
of entities available to tell you what you should–or mu…

I feel like I cannot be the only one who is disgusted every time I walk
through someones exhaled cigarette smoke while walking on a public sidewalk
or entering/exiting a public building. In populous areas, this equates to
every f…

March 6, 2012

CloudFlare is a great service that proxies your site’s traffic in order to
offer performance gains and filtering options. It can compress and cache
static content such as CSS files, JavaScript, and image files and the…

When open allocation is in play, projects compete for engineers, and the
result is better projects. When closed allocation is in force, engineers
compete for projects, and the result is worse engineers. 

via Tech compa…

Gene Expression
recently put up a brilliant post showing data on the
GSS‘s WORDSUM scores correlated to various demographic data points, such as
educational attainment, political ideology, religious preferences, etc. From
the…

I had an idea the other day about life achievement: if you currently have no
plans to be worthy of a minor blurb on Wikipedia then you don’t really have
any plans. That’s a low bar, and yet it’s miles above what 99% of people I
k…

Gamification is a trend in technology right now where people are given micro
rewards for accomplishing discrete tasks, such as completing a programming
exercise, or completing an online profile, etc. It’s essentially a way to
inc…

People tend to love Starbucks despite their coffee tasting like it was
brewed for three weeks in the center of the sun.

Most mask this reality by ordering a coffee beverage instead of
coffee, or by disguising the taste with…

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In my ongoing efforts to convince others that free will is an illusion, I
have found an argument vector that I’ve not yet encountered:

If you believe in cause and effect, i.e. that all outcomes are the…

There is often
spirited discussion and debate
about the differences between Programmers, Hackers, and Developers. Most
descriptions I’ve seen are flawed in at least one serious way, so I wanted
to assemble my own—hopefully mo…