Lex Spoon

I'm Lex Spoon, a software enthusiast living in Atlanta, GA. I write on Substack and on my home page in addition to here.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

In praise of foreign workers

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It's election season in the U.S., and the television is filled again with advertisements discussing foreign workers. This is a large sub...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

It really was just about Flash

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There are a number of platform wars going on right now, on various classes of computers. One of them is over the market for applications on ...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

The most important problem in computer science

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Richard Lipton chooses The Projector Problem : I believe that we are sorely in need of an Edison who can invent a projector system that actu...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Patents as Mutual Assured Destruction

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The best way I can understand the popularity of software patents is that they protect incumbent companies from newcomers. Large incumbent co...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Rubik's Cube's difficulty cracked

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I'm late to notice this, but recently a team proved that a Rubik's Cube can always be solved in 20 moves or less , regardless of its...
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Pseudonymity

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People participating in online forums are better off being identified by pseudonyms rather than by their legal names. This is pretty engrain...
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Thursday, July 1, 2010

A foreign film I'd love to see

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Java 4 ever is a hilarious trailer for a made up movie. It has all the cliches from a Hollywood warm-human-tale kinda movie, but instead of...
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