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> all if you manage to give me good feedback on how to do a better presentation next time around. You really should ask the audience that question. What a web based tool could do i…

"Doug, it's important that, when writing JavaScript, your use JSLint to verify it. Do you know it? If you need any help, refer to our internal wiki."

There was JavaScript (including the good parts) before Douglas Crockford started disseminating his ideas about the language and long before jQuery was released. So it was like a po…

> it's really cluttering the UI. It looks like Bing is trying not to clutter the UI with its social features by default: "Sidebar is the most novel component of the new Bing. It's …

Actually, the Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool can be downloaded from adobe.com: http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html From the page: "The Adobe Creative Suite C…

What is Instagram was to be the replacement? Can Facebook, with a lot of cash from the IPO, avert the same fate as MySpace buy buying its supposed successors?

That path seems to go in the same direction, but then it diverges in Science, mostly due to the first sentence on that page, where [Latin] and [knowledge] are links: > Science (fro…

> However I don't know if that reflects some deeper truth about the world, or just my bias in how I answer the questions. It's the same reason why you always end up on "Philosophy"…

Why not?

Doh! Thanks for the update.

Here are the stats from my MacBook Pro (also mid 2009, 13-inch, original battery): Temperature = 2990 CycleCount = 488 DesignCycleCount9C = 1000 DesignCapacity = 5450 MaxCapacity =…

Yes, Marketing

What a coincidence, just this morning I read an account of "How Bertrand Russell was prevented from teaching at the College of of the City of New York" [1]. The judge deemed him to…

I'm not sure which one you mean, but the new logo looks great and it visualizes the concept of branches quite effectively.

"WordPress installations with unsecured shortcodes ( such as [php] which allows raw PHP code to be run ) are vulnerable to serious attacks if WooThemes are installed..." (emphasis …

I live in Europe and I pay €250 in rent. So I can't relate to this at all. How much of your salary goes into rent if you pay $1500 and you're a senior web developer in NYC?

Maybe they had... or maybe the NASA/MIT code is based on code originally obtained from behind the iron curtain.

Let's not forget http://placesheen.com if you need placeholders of Charlie Sheen.

> I didn't even want to read the whole table for all the features of windows 8 Took me all of 5 minutes to digest that table (and decide I want Windows 8 Pro for Boot from VHD and …

I am currently writing the a style guide (for a small agency), and I have added semi-colons as preferred for JavaScript. And abusing the && operator like in the now infamous code s…

> It looks as though Caine will be a future lover of HN, like us. He's got the hacker gene, that's for sure. With his non-reversible, encrypted, calculator-based hashing algorithm …

There was also mention of patents for messaging. Microsoft outright bought Skype, wich was bound to have patents in that area as well. Adding these patents to their portfolio must …

Unicode is probably the closest we are today to world peace. If we can get all this somewhat right, including the flags, the noodles and the 'person with blond hair', I think there…

"the presence of readline-style keyboard shortcuts at an OS mediated level" What does that mean? Do you have an example comparing it to non-'readline-style' shortcuts?