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Hotels do this all the time. They book over 100% occupancy and usually someone cancels at the last minute and there's no problem. If everyone shows up they bump one of the people o…

I agree that Facebook doesn’t socially engineer users as much as it could, but I think this is more a testament to its immense power than its kind intentions. Facebook is no strang…

The League selects people based on their career, education and physical attractiveness.

"the proof will be what happens in the real world of people's Facebook pages." Hard to say that last phrase with a straight face.

You should check out Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky. It's a classic book on this topic.

I thought someone was finally sticking up for Roombas.

I think the time they spend agonizing over how to slip some humor into their release notes would be better spent making their platform faster or improving their convoluted message …

What part are you having trouble with? You can use the AWS provider for the VPC, security groups, EC2 instances for the bastion host, cron server and load balancer (or an ELB). Ela…

I attended Hack Reactor last summer. The teaching style she describes was incredibly effective for me, and I couldn't have been happier with my experience there. It doesn't take lo…

For anyone interested in the history of nuclear physics and the atomic bomb, there is an excellent book by Richard Rhodes called The Making of the Atomic Bomb. He follows the scien…

It may have been intentional, to frighten them. If that was the case, it seemed to have the desired effect.

Beautiful. Can you go into more detail about your recording setup?

Thanks for the feedback. That feature is on our todo list, and I agree that it will add a lot once it is complete.

I'm sorry to hear that. Can I ask which repo you are requesting so I can try to reproduce the problem?

The site is back up. Sorry for the interruption.

I also prefer uBlock. Allowing some ads through in order to extort advertisers is not only shady, it interferes with Adblock Plus's only function--blocking ads. Does any user prefe…

Great article, however I don't think it is from 2001, because he mentions Clojure and Go.

I usually just meditate for ten to fifteen minutes in the morning before I've had any coffee. I focus on my breathing, and when my mind wanders, I refocus. I don't notice much diff…

Meditation has been an invaluable tool for me in fighting distraction. Investing a small amount of time practicing everyday yields huge returns in the long run. As the forces compe…