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The author suggests one "symptom" of using git wrong is >Have you ever did a code review, and gave feedback that was longer than doing the fix yourself, while you’re at it? But thi…

The real trick is to know somebody who works on the product. Seems to be the only way I've ever seen any bug get reported and fixed.

This is great. Although part of me has a desire for the person to be outed so Trump can lose yet another horrendously baseless first amendment lawsuit. Hopefully a lot more visibly…

A mod of /r/sports (~6M users? is that right?) said >Send me your automoderator rule once it's done, we'll add it our sub as well. Seems likely to spread pretty quickly.

GiveDirectly's previous work involves finding the poorest communities in the world and targeting the poorest members with direct cash transfers. I was turned on to them a few years…

The article claims that >We have no control over our basal metabolic rate and then links to a page[1] that explains >Muscle cells require more energy to maintain than fat cells, so…

The mathematical properties of the distribution of the numbers on the sides are very pleasing. They remind me of the (absolutely fascinating) "Go first" dice[1], any subset of whic…

We'd like to! We're thinking of something this winter, but are taking a much-needed break for a few weeks. Our first event was a lot of work and these are entirely labors of love--…

We just ran two events in Seattle. The "MegaGame Society" is sort of the over-arching organizing group (they licensed Watch the Skies from the UK group, updated it significantly, a…

Oh I see. The confusion arises because the antecedent of "it" is unclear. I read "it" as referring to "gay marriage" and not "the case against gay marriage". How confusing.

I don't understand the headline. It seems to be saying "Top Law Firms Won't Support Gay Marriage", this is a mark against it. However, the article seems to be saying the opposite: …

There's a guide (in development) at eyesonthesky.com[1] aimed at newcomers, who may be using poor telescopes in poor atmospheric and lighting conditions. I've been following it qui…

I went into a Fedex/Kinko's in the US, to try to print something on A3. They looked at me as if I had just asked them to sell me a unicorn. They then offered to custom cut a piece …

Sorry to rain on your parade, but þ is a voiceless "th" sound (as in "thing"). Also, that's the part that means "muscle".

The comment you're replying to is word-for-word copied from a highly upvoted comment on reddit yesterday (but is now deleted) by a user with a handle I won't repeat here. [1] So wh…

Except for every 400th year.

The intriguing point to me that I haven't seen addressed on any reporting of the announcement is this: Is the plan to put humans on the surface and then bring them back home? How d…

Art and source photos aside, this link is sort of disappointing. For example, >As Mars' diameter is about half of the Earths, the elevator cable wouldn't have to be as long to reac…

Dave Sirlin had a recent(ish) post about balance in fighting games here: http://www.sirlin.net/articles/game-balance-and-yomi He mentions a few different Street Fighters.

From my reading of it: >The size of the highest mountain of order ∼ εR can be roughly estimated from the inequality (292). >P, P˙ and I are, respectively, the pulsar’s period, peri…

>Unless it's against some kind of law for someone to observe police, you should know better than that. What isn't against the law? This probably doesn't apply exactly, but there ar…

I had a discussion with the creator about beating the last level. I had a solution that solved 95% of it, but I have no idea if it was close to working. Zachary confessed he hadn't…

You don't have to blindly trust a third party. I have a KeePass which can generate random passwords. I trust that because it's open source, so I could look at what they're doing--a…

FORTRAN and Algol60 are also not-0-indexed. From the exple.tive.org page Guido links to: > On top of that other languages that antedate BCPL and C aren’t zero-indexed. Algol 60 use…

FTA >Er, an earlier version of this said the software bug was 20 years old. It's 30! Thanks, Sidhekin