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Given U.S. military budgets, this seems like a rounding error. Especially as the article claims that this was over a five year period. Four mil a year in procurement fraud is proba…

A lot of the really popular shooters out there now are collaborative, or have a strong collaborative element. For example, Destiny 2 can be solo, but really encourages you to group…

I have an aunt and uncle who do this, but they aren't desperate, they're retired. They travel around the country, visiting places they'd like to see, and taking seasonal jobs as so…

On the other hand, don't be ashamed of using a tool that works for the job, even if it isn't the latest or coolest thing. jQuery is no longer the best choice for a lot or circumsta…

FYI your careers link 404s. Going by your site the actual link is http://careers.true.com/

I used the google reader android app before it was shuttered.

Well there's screen time and screen time. Building something cool in minecraft is pretty different from watching spongebob on netflix. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30

Actually, having no assigned seats is the fastest way to board a plane. https://www.math.duke.edu/news/awards/mcm2007bbe.pdf

Fuck that. Journalists are human beings and that _is_ what human beings are supposed to do.

Just anecdotally, I've found that the second round trip overwhelms any performance gains from not rendering on the server, especially if you have to boot up a heavy framework such …

I think the point is that he didn't know there was a lock. His closing argument seems to be that when you're writing muli-threaded code, you have to not only think about what your …

Hey, that's even in front-to-backend order.

or irrespective

Rather ironic that someone has an advantage over Google for universal search.

I saw an article on migrating android phones earlier today: http://lifehacker.com/5843206/how-to-upgrade-to-a-new-androi...

Maybe the NRA will ride to the rescue?

They're not just supposed to be a payments provider. They're going to ask people to actually link their bank accounts so that the merchants don't have to pay credit card fees.

I do this manually sometimes, with chrome dev tools. The whole issue actually has a pretty profound effect on which sites I read. For example, I won't follow a link to usa today un…

update bash ( https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/146849/how-do-i-re... ) or switch to a different system default shell until bash is updated.

http://www.waitingforfriday.com/index.php/Vetinari's_Clock

I did one for work, to create github issues from trello cards. It was a pretty easy speed up of our project management workflow. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trello-to…

If the sample is truly random, it doesn't matter what the population size is. Of course, truly random samples are hard to get.

I think the idea is that you can use solar or nuclear to crack it into hydrogen and oxygen for use as rocket fuel. With rockets, fuel is both energy source and reaction mass, meani…

Actually, the story says that the 16GB nexus 7 is $229, so the iPad mini is 44% more expensive.