Comment Re:Yes there was. (Score 4, Funny) 187
If I was looking for nits to pick, I could greater nit than this.
How many nits could a nit picker pick, if a nit picker could pick nits?
Comment Re:Business vs Open Source (Score 1) 408
There are lots of languages that run on the JVM. At my current work, we regularly use Scala and Groovy alongside our existing Java codebase.
Comment The pitfalls of sharecropping (Score 1) 716
Tim Bray wrote about this situation years ago: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace (and I think I heard the "sharecropping" term used from earlier, too). Essentially, when developers work on a platform owned by someone else, you are fully at their mercy.
Comment Re:So Where Exactly is this 'Leaked' Document? (Score 1) 775
America is only a subset of humanity.
I originally read that as "America is a set of subhumanity", which seemed a bit harsh.
Comment Take control of your brand (Score 2, Informative) 474
Having some sort of online presence is a great way to control (or at least influence) the image about you online. There's a heap of stuff on google about personal brand management. This one looked like it had a lot of relevant points regarding why you should consider this to be important: http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2008/04/building_personal_brand.html
Submission + - Study: firstborns have higher IQ than siblings (nytimes.com)
ghastlygray writes: The New York Times reports an extensive study which shows firstborns tend to have higher IQ than their siblings. The interesting point is that there's strong evidence this has nothing to do with biology, but rather with social conditioning and family dynamics: the researchers discovered that when the eldest child dies at infancy, the second child gets the high IQ. The article cites several competing explanations for this phenomenon.
