"project called the Stanford Study of Writing",
that is "Study of Writing in Stanford".
Nice to hear personal tech is good for Stanford,
keep in mind: the country, in large, is illiterate.

> How do you turn the tap (faucet) on and off?

by using the start menu?

... 90% of respondents always think they're above average!

Yeah, virtual trial and virtual jail would be neat.

...best solution would be to fly crew in safer manner (perhaps using SpaceOne?)
and dock the GIANT DEATH TRAP later.

i.e. not downwind

"hacker ethic" as in "getting things done", versus "professional ethic" as in "cheating your way through school and career"? Let me see...

Monopolies will always be evil.
Why? Simply because they can, and can get away with evil.

"Wirth's law" is more quality related, as in "crappy SW can benefit from faster HW".

"Gates's Law" is user-side observation, "speed of commercial software generally slows by fifty percent every 18 months thereby negating all the benefits of Moore's Law".

"Page's Law" is reflection on SW development of a single company: "software gets twice as slow every 18 months... Google plans to reverse this trend and optimize its code."

I wonder if anyone else noticed these differences.

Plenty of 60fps 3D games are out there...

although lots more barely hitting 30,20,10 fps with hardware they claim to support, e.g. Crysis/PC.

And it's not just complexity, granted 2D platformer is quite a bit simpler comparing to modern games, it's poor quality of product.

Come on, MSI is targeting PHBs.
Why would developers bother with downloading MSI?
PDF was enough for me.

Come on, the book is on design, i.e. it's an art book. It is all in the eye of the beholder.

Making text hard to read is just another way of failing at design.

Here're few absolutely non-falsifiable statements for you:

- There's no such thing as "fair use"
- There's no such thing as "original art"
- There's no such thing as "original invention"

As for TFA, case and point of YAGF.

and it's unfortunate many of us will have to pass on learning it...

Whenever I usually have to program myself, there's rarely another person in the world who'd have similar understanding and knowledge of the subject. Let alone in the same company, and if so, solution would be handy already.

TFA only affirms: nothing good can ever come out of corporate environment...
everything worthwhile is done on a farm, in a galaxy far far away, e.g. V8, Doom, Luke Skywalker...
On professional side, V8 sucks googles comparing to some other VMs.