If you truly find computers fascinating, then it's just trying things from another perspective. It gives you insight into how things work and it definitely improves your skill in imperative languages. Just try to remember that all of these languages I've listed can and most often do compile back into Assembly in the…

Once you feel comfortable with imperative languages like just about all those you've listed, I'd suggest trying other kinds of programming languages. Despite the fact that most of the world uses C derivatives, there's a lot to be learned by trying functional languages like Haskell and OCaml or even logic languages…

And is it just me or is the understated, large font UI styling of the Zune much more attractive than the new Metro interface Microsoft is pushing out everywhere?

Salmonella, cookies, ha! Nice one there.

CrashPlan has services (US only) for both seeding and restoring your data through mailed hard drives. They're expensive (125$ on top of the yearly sub and no, you don't get to keep the hard drive), but the option is there should you need it.

Please note I've never said that it will not be overthrown. Let's quote: "The keyboard and mouse will survive until *superior* input devices appear." All that can and should be understood from this is that thus far I have not seen a superior input device to either the mouse or the keyboard.

I'm just going from personal experience. Most people I know who've ever touched engineering did it for the money. Many left engineering and went to another related discipline (physics, computer science, chemistry, etc.) because they just didn't like the engineering bit.

I'm one of those who's made the switch to CrashPlan. I have to say it's a very efficient and simple solution. I have it configured to mirror my important data both to an external hard drive I keep plugged at all times and to their cloud storage. The encryption ensures my data is safe and the compression means I can…

I hope you're kidding, because I don't see tablets becoming work devices anytime soon. You're a monkey on those things, barely able to do any sort of useful work.

Underexposing in RAW can actually be rather practical. If you're shooting in low light with fast moving subjects, you can balance out ISO sensitivity and shooting with a few stops lower than normal to get the best possible picture.

Am I alone considering grad school on the basis of wanting to learn, as opposed to simply wanting to cash in?

This will probably sound extremely niche (and it is), but if you ever need a search utility that can also look for hexadecimal data, XSearch seems like the best thing I've yet to find. Took me months to find, considering the peculiarity of the request, but it can be a lifesaver if what you're looking for isn't plain…

This very much depends on the field you're looking at. Most if not all web developers have personal sites, as do professors, for instance.

My greatest concern with all pre-built solutions is that you just get drowned out in a sea of similar if not identical sites. If you want to sell yourself, you have to come out of the lot. Using a service which gives you presets is not the way to do that.

Dropbox's shared folders basically clone the data on both dropbox accounts. It's fairly logical then that if you clone 16gb of data on a 2gb account, you won't be able to add anything to it.

Funny, I've recently changed all of my password (started using LastPass). I'm not worried about hacking, really, as AES is impossible to crack currently so even in the event of a security breach there's little to no chance of actual information leaking out.

First, thank you for actually making a post about this.

Exactly. Sadly, it seems like the Gawker network doesn't give a shit about protecting that which supports their entire business model. For shame.

@phunkshun I am very sorry but I feel I have to correct you here. The example of a pound of cucumber VS a pound of chocolate is, in fact, valid. Our bodies are not nuclear reactors, we do not use E=mc^2 to determine the caloric value of something (if we did, they would be downright astronomical). Caloric values are…

I'm glad I've made the right choice then. This Linksys thing seems incredibly dumb to do, even for them.