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Great point! I have a "cheap" Samsung M32 that I bought for about $170. One reason I chose this Samsung phone over a similarly priced phone from a competitor was that I wrongly bel…

It's not a toggle, but Google Pixel phones (or at least the one I owned a few years ago) come with very few if any bloatware type apps, since the default Android apps are the Googl…

Are you aware of /The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages/ by Simon Peyton Jones, the main person behind the front end of the GHC Haskell Compiler? The full book is …

Thanks for clarifying "white-box testing". Some comments: * the operations in the mathematical spec are mostly well defined, but e.g. division by zero is not defined. However, the …

I don't think I understand what you mean by "white-box testing" here, but perhaps it's helpful to clarify what I meant by "equivalence" above, and how it relates to testing: what w…

Do you mean as opposed to e.g. verifying the absence of timing attacks? While I agree that verifying the absence timing attacks is probably much harder than what was done here, the…

Janrain and Engine Yard have been known to host community events.

Yes, this is the only change I care about :( I used "It's All Text" with Emacs. Maybe it's time to start using a separate email client?

In the context of the article, I think the justification was: assuming you're more productive in quality and not quantity, because you're working towards ambitious goals, then on m…

how do i know you don't suck at making up coding questions? in other words, why require a sign-up instead of just posting the questions on your site?

E.g. search for "Buck Adams". Email from prof: "I need to apologize to everyone in CS 367 for providing data sets containing offensive material. I had not looked at the contents of…

had not, thanks for the link

there are more important things happening on march 19th: http://stackin.hauntedshit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/20... :)

The actual DevHouse Pittsburgh site http://devhousepgh.org is down ... If you aren't familiar with SuperHappyDevHouse see http://superhappydevhouse.org/ .

From http://www.alphalab.org/about.aspx : Funding Innovation Works will invest $25,000 in each AlphaLab company in return for 3% of the common stock of the company. This funding sh…

Yes, I forgot to list this, but it's significant. * each team gets a one-on-one meeting with the AlphaLab team every week, and when something urgent comes up they can usually make …

I'm currently part of the first cycle of this program. AlphaLab has some benefits over YC: * includes office space * more money for less equity * longer program * cheaper city to l…

From the article: "We have a wonderful ability here to choose the right tool for the job. We have components that are written in Java, in C++, in Python, and Ruby and Perl. [Python…