Exactly. There's a big difference between telling it like it is, and being an asshole. I've worked for a boss who would never fail to point out mistakes and shortcomings. Some people had a problem working with him, calling him "not nice", even though he would never chew someone out in public, and never got abusive. That I can respect. I have also worked for people taking the Torvalds approach to criticism, and I've since promised myself never to work for assholes again (it's one of my reasons to go freelance). I'm not suggesting that Linus should become PC, and he should manage his project as he sees fit, but I wouldn't work for him nor employ him.

I'm a little sad that Free Range parenting is a "thing" now. When I grew up (in the 70s), almost every kid was raised free range. From a very young age we walked or cycled to school. If we wanted to go swim, play soccer or see a movie, our parents wouldn't take us; we'd cycle there instead. The notion of "play dates" didn't exist except perhaps for toddlers; most of our after school time was unstructured and if you wanted to play with friends, you just went. Our parents taught us early on how to take the train to see our grandparents. The one rule our parents imposed was "home before dark". And all of this was the norm; parents didn't drive their kids anywhere unless the route was very long or dangerous.

Nice, we pay that per liter.

I blame the always-online data raping society we live in. I always envisioned this device to work offline with a local database that I'd fill myself as I went along. In other words: with no information other than what I gathered myself. But one can hardly blame people to be wary of these devices when companies like Google and Facebook get into the game.

I've seen few applications that wouldn't be better or more conveniently served with either a GoPro or a Smart Watch. The one application that I would have jumped on was banned by Google: facial recognition. I'm seriously bad at remembering names and faces, and having a HUD showing people's names would be some help in overcoming this social handicap.

I'm not talking about reckless experiments on patients, but about looking outside one's own comfort zone. Instead of referring a patient with odd, conflicting symptoms to the next specialist, and the next, and the next who will fob it off with an "it's psychological", maybe confer with that next specialist instead, and discuss what could be ailing the patient. It also means looking to other industries and asking yourself: "what can we learn from airline pilots to make our own jobs safer?", or "would a 3d printed model of a brain help us plan this surgery better and perform it more accurately?".

No surprise here. I've recently had to deal with doctors of various kinds, and found many (though not all) to be myopic, stubborn and deeply conservative, reluctant to consult outside their own area of expertise, prone to seek the cause of unknowns outside their own area of expertise ("It's not X, go see a specialist for Y"), and having a disturbing lack of curiosity. Maybe I expect too much of them, but doctors act a lot more like technicians than scientists or researchers. There was an article (in the Economist I believe) about health care being one of the least innovative disciplines. The science of medicine has progressed, but there's been relatively little progress in the way we diagnose and treat patients. Some doctor proudly spoke about how they now employ checklists similar to those being used by pilots, to reduce errors in surgery. A great innovation... which they could have known about and implemented about 50 years ago.

There are plenty of examples of desperate patients nudging their doctors in the right direction after doing some self-diagnosis and research online. There are also some examples of extraordinary breakthroughs in medical science made by engineers with no medical background.

Fun and tasty! There's already a company that will turn your raw CT scans into a 3d model of your brain... printed in chocolate.

The teacher would be right in that case, and the student will be in for a rude awakening when they enter the work force in any sort of knowledge worker role. In business, email is still the medium of choice for written communication. And that's not likely to change in the near future.

Just save them in alphabetical order.

Mayhe his AI already killed him and is now posting here under his name.

How are the Charlie cartoons racist, or, how is islam a race?

This is not really about making 3d photos. 3D cameras have a wider application in areas like object recognition or augmented reality.

I think it's nothing short of amazing how far tablet / phone cameras have come in terms of picture quality, given the crappy lens and tiny sensor. Zoom, low light performance and a halfway decent flash are the obvious things missing from those cameras, but pictures taken in good light conditions actually look very good. Good enough to enlarge and print, and good enough for most people to be unable to tell that the photo was taken with a phone rather than a proper camera.

And nothing beats the camera you have on you.

There was a Dutch publishing house called BZZTôH. Founded in 1970 but they still used the sound of a guillotine for their company name.