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True; us, the Web community (which also built the frameworks) as a whole, is to blame.

I'm not really fighting you on the merits of frameworks (which should be obvious to everyone), but are you implying that implementing a design pattern is equivalent to building a f…

I totally agree with you on the scalability aspect, but I think one of the main issues correctly pointed out by @ilovefood is that a lot of juniors nowadays start directly with one…

https://twitter.com/Olympics

What strikes me is the low usage of the RSS button; the "RSS is dead" polemic might not be that unsubstantiated after all.

It's funny that in the old Google Docs I was able to upload documents with no issues in any browser/OS, but it seems that in Drive I cannot do it using Opera on Linux (but I can us…

Exactly. And how exactly did this post get on HN?

6174 is Kaprekar's constant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaprekar_constant

Are there any issues with certain passwords (too long, containing special characters)? Also, where is the forgot password link?

What about beginners that don't know that VIM has certain features?

There are some resources mentioned in this post: http://howtolifeguide.com/post/16664436505/how-to-read

It's funny that they want you to log in via Facebook.

Here is a TED talk with the creator of Duolingo, Luis von Ahn (he also built reCAPTCHA): http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_c...

88%+11%+2% = 101% That's the real shock. Double check your graphs before posting.

This has been in Chromium for some months now, not really fresh news. Anyway, hard to tell if it is really useful; seems that it tries to emphasize the apps, which, at least in my …

It would also be interesting to see if the voters are left or right handed (or ambidextrous?); I assume there is some correlation between this and the most used Shift key.

I am still waiting for that obvious evidence. That includes more details and also tests on the latest dev version of Chrome (Chromium). I am not defending Google in any way, but so…

I can understand their joy but the last sentence in the post and the Twitter update: "Sorry Google...we have officially pwned Google Chrome and its sandbox with a 0-Day." [1] seem …

"degrees are not accomplishments" Is this really true? Will I be wasting at least five years of my life by taking various CS degrees? I have some professional experience (web dev f…

I don't know if it can be considered "unknown", but vnStat is another cool CLI network monitor.