bhiggins

John Pistole should man up, show some leadership, and release his bodyscan to the public to demonstrate through actions not words how these scanners aren't a big deal. John: we're waiting for the pics.

OMG HOW EXCITING!!!11111111

yup. another handy tool is ngrep: http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/

for app-level protocol stats and/or high-end situations i'd attach an extrahop product: http://www.extrahop.com/products/

no, these people just feel so entitled that they want to be able to party party party AND feel (not actually be) well-educated. anyone who works harder than them and learns more is threatening to this feeling.

Akamai needs to wake up and realize that their technology hasn't been a big differentiator for a few years now and change their pricing to reflect that.

you wanna use the word tithe then you're going to be brining in a lot of connotation baggage. not a fan.

php sucks

why would anyone want to be the next php?

Need more? See: http://www.fusionio.com/products/ioxtreme/

Even more than that? OK, how about: http://www.violin-memory.com/technology/capacity-flash/

want something beefier? check out http://www.fusionio.com/products/ioxtreme/

even beefier than that? perhaps http://www.violin-memory.com/technology/capacity-flash/

it's too bad nobody neutralized the authority figure and liberated the prisoner.

the only struggle with scheme is with falling asleep

maybe next year, if you keep up the good work, you'll be reading about Appeal to Some Website.

I am mostly doing programming in languages with GC, which in this case is fine because it's OK for it to go, you know, kind of slow.

Your argument is so compelling. Now I see how wrong I've been. I'll just accept everything the ivory tower says from now on, on any topic, unconditionally. Brilliant.

maybe they can get together with kiha and combine their pointless efforts.

I'm impressed with lambda calculus as a mathematical formalisms and its equivalence with TMs, and I am impressed but not overly enamored with homoiconicity & metaprogramming/macros. I like conditionals. Not a fan of marketing minimal syntax but having special forms. Not a fan of cons as a a building block for everything. Not a big believer in garbage collection. And certainly not a believer that Lisp is a practical programming language for much of anything these days.

But don't let me stop you from caaaaadring away!

almost as underwhelming as what it turns out kiha is doing

You know, a lot of non-academic languages are pretty crappy... like Ruby, or PHP. But I'm not impressed with languages out of academia either. I don't care about your -morphisms or fancy type systems...

it screams QE2 to me

these "Learn You..." (NB: this does not include LPTHW) books seem like a post-modern version of the "For Dummies" series. So, if you enjoyed the vapid "For Dummies"-style jokes but wanted more non-sequiturs, these are the books for you.

so I guess Edison would prefer the Slap Chop over the LHC. superb.

this is a good time given the boost that QE2 has given the stock market.

It's faster to load PDFs than anything I've ever used previously. Thanks Google & Foxit.

the lesson here is to disable flash

Ideally, kids should drop out of college because they found something better to do with their time, not the other way around.

here is what I sent Google in response:

I love Gmail. I've loved it since the beginning when I got an invite code from [redacted] and I think it has just gotten better and better over the years. But, I am disappointed that you didn't commit to being more careful with how you handle privacy leaks with new products. Either make a commitment that you won't intentionally do something like this again, or admit that your plan is to "educate" people about auto-added privacy-violating products that ride on Gmail's coattails. If you plan on going the latter route, please let me know so I can switch to a different email provider now.

Reminds me of how Peter Thiel thinks dropping out of college will bring you great startup success.

strange, I find many economists dogmatic and heartless.

the people that are leaving google to join facebook are doing it mainly for the same reason they joined google in the first place: status.