Lex Spoon

There's an old saw among programmers that "I can make this program run arbitrarily fast, so long as you don't care what it prod...

Brian Stelter says no : There is little the Federal Communications Commission can say about Fox News or MSNBC since the channels are on cab...

I temporarily switched to an Apple Mac laptop, but after about two years I switched back to Linux. Here's why. My original reasoning w...

David Friedman raises an excellent thought experiment: what if the web had come first, rather than printed documents ? If the web had come ...

I was recently pointed to the Funmath project. Funmath is a mathematical notation that is meant to make manipulation on paper be fast and r...

Type checking is frequently put forward as a way to find errors that otherwise would have slipped through testing. I've never found this...

Automatic automobiles, that is. Robin Hanson asks : So a huge upcoming policy question is: when will what big cities manage to coordinate t...