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> 6. Ad-exchange receives all the bids and picks the second highest bidder (no idea why it's the second highest) It's called a Vickrey Auction. It allows bidders to bid their true …

Eric Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." On face, it's largely about FOSS development; but, more so, it's about how one ought to go about thinking of solutions to technical pr…

Might somebody be willing to explain the difference between the two versions? > using HHVM from GitHub rather than our internal repository.

> The contract was presented to me on paper and in Portuguese, 7 pages in total. The only thing I understood was the caption, 'Contrato de Trabalho'. At the time no one said anythi…

I'd really just like to see what it looks like and how it feels.

I've haven't worked very much, but I really want to dive in. I'm not necessarily aiming to literally swap out my LCD for a 13" e-ink screen, but I was wondering how I might take ap…

Seems topical. I don't know half the terminology in the wikipedia article, and, in light of recent events, it seems worthwhile to know.

Wow. I hope that you and your family are all right. I would doubt that there is a asylum process specific for developers, at least for asylum in the U.S. (in that I would doubt tha…

Don't ask me about the prospect of a Wikipedia contributor coming up with the idea to research 'troll'? (On a side note: my name is Alex, and I'm a freshman studying CS at Harvard.…

start over; build it better than they are.

I disagree. Typing is boring, coding is fun. Learn to type by learning to code.