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Thanks for the recommendation. I just switched.

Having not followed Airbnb very closely - I have no interest whatsoever in using the service either as a traveller or a host - your link clarified one thing that's always sort of b…

When a question is deleted on StackOverflow, it's hidden entirely - direct link or not - except to users with at least 10k in "reputation", and I think to the question asker. I sus…

"Steal" seems to be a slightly strong word. It looks like it's open source and just missing the license.[1] I'd prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than jump straigh…

4194304 K ought to be enough for anybody.

I've been on this site for something like five years, but... I never knew that this functionality existed

20% is "just slightly" more expensive?

4 hours ~= 124.75 cents/hr 7 days ~= 4.16 cents/hr 30 days ~= 2.08 cents/hr 90 days ~= 1.38 cents/hr This is based on the full 24 hours per day. If you do it based on "usable" time…

It looks like she held the record for just three of those months. A month before Harry Hong took it back, a guy named Neil Gewirtz took it from her with a run of 2349 lines. http:/…

I believe this is what tptacek is referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104407

> “Originally I created Xiki for my own use,” said Muth. “When I was supposed to be doing my boring job as a software dev at banks and insurance companies in Ohio 13 years ago, I s…

Via Memory-Alpha: > When asked by Time magazine in 1994, "How do the Heisenberg compensators work?" Michael Okuda replied, "They work just fine, thank you." I suspect the article b…

$79 in 2005 is apparently $94.62 in 2014. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=79&year1=2005&y...

Odd. I could have sworn I checked before I commented. Maybe I was the one mistakenly on Amazon.ca. I apologize for the error.

Super Saver Shipping has been $25 in the US for as long as I can remember. If you're Canadian, you may simply be remembering incorrectly as Amazon.ca used to be $39, but also chang…

> the 2/3 split in Python is a reason that many will give for not using Python at all I don't know Python, but I've gone through a few phases where I'll play with it for a bit and …

If you're asked to sign one when you're hired, the consideration is the job itself. If you're asked to sign one when you leave, depending on your contract, any severance package mi…

This image: http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer-images/product/smartphone...

This is only true of the public beta. It bothered me as well when I tried it out, but after a few searches I found that the RTM will still have local accounts. I assume the decisio…

> it seems functionally equivalent to logging into steam on a friend's computer Honestly, separate achievements is the part that gets me excited. Maybe I'm odd, but I'm pretty part…

I think that's what he's saying. There's a deleted post above him. I think the comment you're replying to is saying the same thing you are.

> People can choose to a) not send or choose who they send a message to If people have to "choose to not send", then you shouldn't claim your process is "completely opt-in", as wha…

So because the majority of users have smartphones, the option for everyone else is "too bad"? I've had my non-smartphone for six years now. It still works, and while I'm sure I'll …

I don't have Firefox on this computer, so I can't check on that, but you're definitely wrong about Chrome. If you click Edit blocking options and uncheck a tracker, it unblocks it …