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Is something like this possible locally with the new FileSystem APIs?

In the specific example of the blog post, an isDefined() is still necessary. How is `isDefined()` different than `ref !== null`?

Possible opportunity charging students facebook credits to get their essays checked.

Interacting and exploring APIs is either the newest fad or a gold rush for new business, but one of the biggest things stopping me from using them is integration into my existing s…

There's no automated service, but you can have the post office hold any package for you for a week or so. These guys look like they're going after the online retailer distribution …

That's a pretty interesting situation. I certainly don't think there's any "something" blocking you, I'd guess it's more of a vague feeling of caution that you're clinging to becau…

"Trolling" is a term of perspective, if you are witnessing the trolling then you have no information about the original intent.

Pair that with a slightly stronger form of data hiding by using TrueCrypt's hidden partition feature to encrypt the second OS partition. Just make sure not to ever boot into the ho…

In my current project we do actually stand up, although only due to the pleasure of the team leader. The main reason it's called a "stand up" is to serve as a reminder that it shou…

I'm not really sure how you're implementing scrum. Our scrum standups are always just the programmers, once a day in the mornings, and are used to keep all the programmers on the s…

The exchange doesn't have much of an effect when most goods are priced relative to the exchange rate (many sites even automate this). The only thing the currency price represents i…

It's worth noting that the author of this blog is a 17 year old self-taught hacker. Highly impressive.

The sampling frequency doesn't directly effect the audio frequencies it can encode. Telephones do PCM encoding (meaning it has data representing the graph of the sound wave) at 8 k…

There's a certain allure to saying code should be a certain way because of natural properties of computing, or our own feelings on what things are different and similar from what o…

Piracy isn't stealing; it's copyright infringement and often a contract violation. Using metaphors for complicated legal issues is not a good way to approach things.

I can't verify this, but unless you installed Helvetica manually, windows installations won't have it and will fall back to whatever is specified next in the family (usually Arial …

Socketstream is a framework in active development based on exactly that idea.

Your comment would be correct if it were PHP.