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I have a BA in a social science and have worked as a software engineer for mega-corps, government and startups. Some companies like to filter by degree, but I generally wouldn't wa…

Love it, and I don't even use Bitcoin! Anything that decreases the barriers for bitcoin transactions is great for its adoption.

How I read it is only if that other band take half of Spotify's streams. If no one likes them and they get no plays, the original band still receives all of the revenue.

I've been using ownCLoud (owncloud.org) on a raspberry pi set up on my LAN to solve this type of problem. While I don't have it publicly facing, as soon as I get home, any file I w…

Despite its flaws, calling the 12 step program a "dance" is pretty offensive. This coming from a someone who's father died of alcohol withdraw when I was young, and 4 immediate fam…

outside AC? The next billion dollar startup?

Or better yet, the full product but doesn't save anything until you register.

I like the post, and it showed me some services that I didn't know about. What advantage does Amazon's Route 53 have over Cloudflare? I've been using Cloudflare for all my DNS and …

Any particular reason why blogs.heroku.com would want to know my location? Isn't the IP generally enough?

If you are running Windows 7, you can run XP legally for free: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958559

"There is nothing complicated about the underlying technology that can't be explained adequately to a bunch of intelligent people." Assuming the underlying technology and it's impl…

1. He provided his phone number for the NSA to search, a piece of information that they do retain and almost certainly have collected. 2. Not bloggers, just American families: http…

This is great, I've been searching all over for a white-label Square. Others, like PayAnywhere, have fallen short.

What does a "low IQ" have to do with manual labor? IQ or any other measure of so called intelligence, has never -- and will probably never -- have any correlation with a person's o…

Brilliant, time to port it to android. New weekend project: Beer Compass.

This is exactly why I don't take government work that comes with a clearance, despite it being the most plentiful and profitable work in my area (D.C.). Some people's work gets put…

ILSpy is probably one of the best utility programs I have ever used... It has saved me countless times from poorly documented API's and helps me work around countless bugs in third…

Reminds me of when DropBox "copied" my idea of automatically uploading every picture you took from your phone. Mine was a web-app with mobile component. The idea was to make it so …