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Cool stuff! One suggestion: if the code wasn't changed yet, switching languages should adjust the syntax in the initial example. So the default `var foo = 'bar';` in JavaScript sho…

> the UX is great. The UX is indeed very nice. Just a small issue: FF19 on OSX 10.8.3 displays a horizontal scrollbar. Looks like a margin or padding problem with the central feed …

The default is All rights reserved, so you need to provide a license for anyone to do anything with the code of yours and sleep good at night knowing you won't exercise your rights…

Well, about time! When I bought a Kindle more than two years ago, one of the first use cases I discovered was finding an article on the web, deciding it's too long to read on a gla…

You might want to check YubNub [0], which is an enhanced version of this prefixes idea. If anything, you don't have to prepend your queries with ! there :) [0] http://www.yubnub.or…

> http://rubydramas.com You just made my day posting this. It's absolutely hilarious!

As a member of Python community, I hereby congratulate Ruby for joining the ranks of pretty-cool-but-not-so-hot-anymore technologies. There are years of Getting Stuff Done ahead of…

Honestly, that doesn't sound like a best practice and more like a convoluted performance hack. It's one thing to use a pre-allocated memory pool for speeding up the creation of obj…

I love how the closure of Reader reveals something about the tech journalists and "celebrities". They throw tantrums. They throws hissy fits. They scream bloody murder. They divine…

Source? I have never heard that claim. And contrary to that, Go has facilities for implementing ORMs, like field annotations in structs for specifying column bindings.

Remember that you still need to explain the Fermi paradox [1]. If you apply the above logic to life & civilizations in general, you conclude that it's actually quite likely for the…

> #1 wouldn't be terribly interesting. The scary implication of #1 is that it updates our probability for long-term survival and becoming a technologically advanced, space-faring s…

I think we all know what language (s)he meant. But about those dark corners, I guess the point wasn't to present any particularly nasty gotchas, but rather some precious little les…

Works for me now. Thanks!

The Ballmer video on maintenance page more than makes up for any issues, though.

> I see very little of this as having anything to do with Mayer-as-Mayer or Mayer-as-a-woman and almost all the reaction here having to do with Mayer-as-a-technology-CEO. And this,…

Go fills the same niche as node.js: high performing API servers talking to some frontend: a "proper" webserver, thick in-browser webapp, a mobile app, etc. And it's a pretty damn g…

There are certain ways to write Java that are both more expressive and clever (and therefore more fun), as well as more dangerous in terms of future maintenance. Various dependency…

> (...) but Ruby is much more of a "hacker's language" and pushes you to more "lispyness" in spirit and practice! Which, I think, is one of the main reasons why Python is recommend…

iTerm2 has few other fancy features, like horizontal and vertical splitting or Guake-like top-down terminal [0]. [0] http://ivanvillareal.com/osx/setup-iterm2-to-behave-like-gua...…

Wholesale this. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. will have no problems dealing with visa shenanigans if you get an offer from them.

This sheds somewhat different light on the reasons why paid apps aren't that popular in Play market. It's not only about users being (allegedly) reluctant to pay for their apps but…

That's a bit ironic. I remember not so long ago I've heard many people who switched to Chrome were deeming Firefox "memory hungry". I haven't heard similar complaints about Chrome …