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On March 8th, 2019 with 49 comments
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Bill Ottman, founder and CEO of social networking site Minds.com, has answered more than a dozen questions that Slashdot readers...
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On February 15th, 2019 with 84 comments
As you may have noticed, Facebook is not cool anymore. The social juggernaut has been mired in controversies -- infamous privacy scandals or the company's...
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On April 2nd, 2018 with 246 comments
Christine Peterson is a long-time futurist who co-founded the nanotech advocacy group the Foresight Institute in 1986. One of her favorite tasks has been...
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On October 15th, 2016 with 38 comments
You asked, he answered! Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at security firm F-Secure, has answered a range of your questions. Read on to find his insight...
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On October 5th, 2016 with 410 comments
Martin Shkreli has agreed to answer your questions. Shkreli is the co-founder of the hedge fund MSMB Capital Management, the co-founder and former chief...
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On August 31st, 2016 with 51 comments
You asked, he answered! Ruby on Rails Creator and founder/CTO of Basecamp, David Heinemeier Hansson has responded to questions submitted by Slashdot readers. ...
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On August 26th, 2016 with 40 comments
You asked, he answered! VideoLan President and Lead Developer of VLC Jean-Baptiste Kempf has responded to questions submitted by Slashdot readers. Read on to...
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On August 3rd, 2016 with 109 comments
David Heinemeier Hansson created the Ruby on Rails open-source web framework in 2003. David is also the founder and CTO of Basecamp, a project management tool...
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On February 4th, 2016 with 59 comments
Matthew Helmke (personal blog) is the author of the newly published 11th edition of Ubuntu Unleashed (published by Pearson); this updated edition of the book...
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On January 27th, 2016 with 55 comments
Anant Agarwal is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the CEO of edX. A massive open online course platform founded by MIT and...
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On January 18th, 2016 with 87 comments
samzenpus writes: David J. Peterson is a language creator and author. He created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages for HBO's Game of Thrones, and more...
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On November 30th, 2015 with 78 comments
A few weeks ago you had a chance to ask author, entrepreneur, and software developer Jeff Atwood about founding Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange...
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On November 9th, 2015 with 189 comments
Considered by many to be one of the most influential mathematicians alive today, Neil Sloane has made major contributions to the fields of sphere packing,...
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On September 16th, 2015 with 157 comments
samzenpus writes: He's run a multi-billion dollar company and hidden in the jungles of Central America while being chased by Belizean authorities, but John...
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On August 26th, 2015 with 64 comments
Last week you had the chance to ask electrical engineer and L5 society co-founder Keith Henson about space colonization, his solar power satellite project, and...
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On August 19th, 2015 with 54 comments
Tarek Loubani is an emergency medicine physician who works as a
consultant doctor in the emergency departments in London, Canada and Shifa Hospital in Gaza. He...
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On August 17th, 2015 with 111 comments
Keith Henson is an electrical engineer and writer on space engineering, space law, cryonics, and evolutionary psychology. He co-founded the L5 society in 1975,...
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On August 13th, 2015 with 38 comments
A while ago you had the chance to ask Steve Jackson, founder and editor-in-chief of Steve Jackson Games, about the numerous games he's created, his efforts to...
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On July 22nd, 2015 with 557 comments
Last week you had a chance to ask the head of development at Giant Spacekat Brianna Wu about Gamergate, starting a company, and women-in-tech issues. Below...
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On July 14th, 2015 with 727 comments
Brianna Wu is the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a company specializing in cinematic experiences using the Unreal engine. She’s also a frequent...
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On July 9th, 2015 with 99 comments
samzenpus writes: Shaun Moss is a computer scientist with a 15-year passion for Mars. While reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson in 1999 Shaun realized...
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On June 30th, 2015 with 33 comments
A few weeks ago you had a chance to ask Brian Krebs about security, cybercrime and what it's like to be the victim of Swatting. Below you will find his answers...
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On June 25th, 2015 with 383 comments
samzenpus writes: Linus Torvalds, the man behind the development of the Linux kernel, needs no introduction to Slashdot readers. Recently, we talked about his...
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On June 17th, 2015 with 53 comments
Brian Krebs got his start as a reporter at The Washington Post and after having his entire network taken down by the Lion Worm, crime and cybersecurity became...
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On June 8th, 2015 with 205 comments
He was the founder of Megaupload, its successor Mega, New Zealand's Internet Party, and is the world's greatest Modern Warfare 3 player. He was born Kim...
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On March 16th, 2015 with 90 comments
Zach Weiner is the author and illustrator of a number of webcomics, most notably Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC). He's been a guest contributor to...
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On January 19th, 2015 with 42 comments
samzenpus (5) writes "Alexander Stepanov is an award winning programmer who designed the C++ Standard Template Library. Daniel E. Rose is a programmer,...
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On January 5th, 2015 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Alexander Stepanov studied mathematics at Moscow State University and has been programming since 1972. His work on foundations of...
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On December 8th, 2014 with 24 comments
Back in November you had a chance to ask Rachel Sussman about photography and her work. Her most famous project may be the Oldest Living Things in the World, a...
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On November 27th, 2014 with 47 comments
A few days ago you had a chance to ask the people at Hampton Creek about about their products and the science of food. Below you'll find the answers to your...
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