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Why does the writer present Superdad's problem as unavoidably exposing their child to violence by having them at work and not the fact that they have their child at work? Why do th…

That type of dev? One who uses fully public and well documented APIs to fetch extremely common libraries from a fast CDN? The horror! ajax.googleapis.com isn't comparable to this n…

All the examples highlight how well a super-minimalist site works when you have very little content. What about restaurants with more than just a half dozen menu items though?

If your site depends on turning your readers into commodities, it is not in fact a "pro-consumer site".

Yeah, I even wrote my own MVC framework for a small project and I still don't know what MVC is "supposed" to mean because every single implementation example I see is completely di…

The obsession with 3d printing vs more practical methods has everything to do with privileged white nerds and their obsession with the "information economy" over actual knowledge a…

If you'd actually spent a few weeks using it, you'd know. Windows 8 is a solid improvement on 7 that requires virtually no change in usage patterns. 99% of the time you're on the s…

Like virtually all technology fetishists, he completely ignores the realities of class dynamics and global neoliberal hegemony to pretend that any theoretical singularity will bene…

The US military has spent a decade murdering over a million civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and more and taken to labeling every male over the age of 16 a…

There are hundreds of far more terrible things happening every day that do not make the slightest dent in the public consciousness. It seems incredibly premature (at best, woefully…

The article mentions that before colemak they weren't even touch-typing qwerty. Simply making the effort to learn to touch-type will certainly match the speed improvements they not…

Alienation is the word being sought after here, not distraction. Alienation is the defining characteristic and goal of late capitalism, because alienation drives consumption. Every…

If you're using Chrome 22 (stable) on Win8, note that you need to switch to the beta or dev channels as the Win8 version of Chrome doesn't have web audio support until 23.0.1270.0

I've discovered a critical flaw in this emulator. No Oregon Trail.

Technology ripe for abuse in the air over an area already subject to one of the most brutal, reactionary gangs of thugs ever to be handed the reins of power in the US, Oakland PD. …

This one has a name that fills your mind with images of awkward overweight kids.

That's been the case for almost 15 years now and any sign of a clue materializing has yet to be demonstrated. Just look at Netflix's slow death spiral as its content library keeps …

Whitewashing and cheerleading a legacy of genocide, rape, enslavement, and the theft of land and resources is "bad", yes. Further, establishing the history of the conquerors as the…

If you're going to take ketamine, please be careful, it's a very dangerous drug because studies show repeated exposure puts you at high risk of accidentally liking dubstep.

I manage a website for a small business that doesn't want or warrant a full integrated blog engine. Feedburner allows the business owners to write news/announcements on blogger.com…

Except it isn't a neutral third party when one party gets to pick the arbitrator and the other party has no say. It's why forced arbitration in employment contracts are so odious, …

Weird, I don't see one line mentioning "crippling fear of dying in a gutter of an easily curable condition that I can't afford the five figure+ hospital bill for".

I've been using 8 off and on since it went RTM and don't really feel "forced" into metro at all. The only time I even really see Metro is when searching for something, otherwise it…

A lot of discussion on the hardware side and none on the software. The modern mac has benefited enormously in terms of software availability and compatibility from being nix based …

Why is Pinterest such a shining example when it doesn't have a fully developed market model yet and hasn't shown a single profitable quarter? What makes it more than just another o…