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This definitely has applications beyond coding: http://imgur.com/62335fX

Why? Because they can, and the school environment often actively encourages the kind of power hierarchies that result in this sort of bullying. See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/…

It's great, but as you have both domains now, you should really just run with codeAcademy.com if at all possible (which is what everyone remembers it as) rather than orienting your…

It doesn't give you everything on the same screen but if you can't live without the automated filtering of a tabbed inbox, try the "Quick links" Gmail lab rather than multiple inbo…

So the question is: what is the biggest killer of startups? Practicalities (I can't go to this meeting because I can't afford the coffee) or psychology (the funding killed my sense…

The point is rather than these bodies acting as gatekeepers deciding what they think will work or not, funds should be distributed via a lottery subject to some basic criteria. In …

Exactly. I understand where the article is coming from, but I couldn't disagree more. Competition is both inevitable and a force for innovation. Even if we were all to rally behind…

I'd attempted to do this before but got stuck formatting the cards. Going to give it another shot with your examples - cheers!

I got a screen resolution error at 1280x1024, but clicking onto the demo video and then hitting back in my browser got me to the app (which looked absolutely fine at my res). Other…

Same here, so I switched over to Chrome (Canary) and got exactly the same error. This is why UI sniffing is such a bad idea.

Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans Well it's won you one customer here at least. I'm really sick of companies charging extra for securi…

Thank you, both of you, for such a relevant and intellectually stimulating discussion.

It's a bad thing - effectively it gives a few search companies control over the entire namespace. ie. if it's not searchable, it doesn't exist.

What Twitter seem blissfully unaware of is that they've traded download speed for rendering speed on lower end devices.

Re: the link headers, see the HTML 4 spec [0] & RFC 5988 [1]. They're only supported by Firefox and Opera at the moment [2] though. [0] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/styles.ht…

1.2. Existing Work. [...] Microsoft did some early work on HTTP access to email. The Outlook Express client application uses a fully HTTP-based interface to do all mail functions o…

> it seems like a pretty fair deal to me. To heavily paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: those who would give up privacy to obtain moderately more relevant search results, deserve neithe…

> The occasions of Google's data being compromised are notable for being exceptions So far , but the risks are only going to get worse. Eventually the value of our data, at least i…

> Could you point me to the obvious internal disquiet? It was to this [0] article I was referring. I don't think he was misrepresented, but the Larry Page quote was really beside t…

> First, I'm enjoying this discussion and I'm glad it remains civil. Thanks! Yes, me too! > I don't see these as divergent. Not divergent in the sense that one precludes the other,…

> Why do you think Google considers its actions evil? I don't want to sound prickly but you keep putting words in my mouth. As I said, it's less about the specifics of what they're…

> I'm not sure where coercion comes into it. Sometimes you find yourself in a moral quandary through no fault of your own. But if you're going to say, "I wont do evil" ( whatever i…

Nobody coerced them into any of this. The founders of Google can steer their company in all sorts of directions. If they choose to take their company to a place where they can no l…

> If we know something of your interests (based on G+ and/or search), isn't suggesting more relevant content to you on Youtube (as a purely hypothetical example) a good thing? Yes …

I find it interesting that a motto so straight forward a child could understand now requires knowledge of the context and history in which it was coined in order to interpret it co…