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I think it's worth noting the timing of this post, which is that it came out a day after this article on the LA Times tech blog: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn…

Confirm. Woke up this morning to limited connectivity, realised I was getting to some sites and not others. While on hold with TWC (where they said there was an 'outage affecting s…

After a bit of back and forth, here's a working one with a persistent image link and the proper proportions http://jsbin.com/amunug/17 :)

I wanted to see where in the spectrogram the sound was as it was playing, so I threw together this quickie jsbin to make it happen: http://jsbin.com/amunug/10 Useful for anyone els…

Sorry about the trouble - there are some errors in your manifest file that need to be corrected before it can push to the site successfully. We have been manually triaging invalid …

Even in feminist circles, the the idea that "douchebag" is definitely sexist and denigrating is far from a settled argument: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/11/16/in-def…

Leaving the gender-stereotypes, etc. etc. aspect of it aside, git is quite literally "my daddy's version control." I used to work for my family (writing software) and one of the la…

I just don't buy the conclusion here. There are a lot of things where "the universe" of people who are in some way associated with X is much larger than "the X community," but that…

Part of NYC culture is having strongly held opinions about pizza, so I think it's a perfectly reasonable statement to make. Moreover, I recently had the slice from this very 2 Bros…

I don't think anyone in particular tried to make a furor, more that this was just a particularly egregious and dumb case, where it was easy for everyone to pile on and apparent to …

Looks like they got that straightened out.

I was super pumped to see this headline, as just a couple of weeks ago I was browsing the wikipedia articles for the original series of games, and considered getting on some old sc…

This post completely misses the point that clothing can be an enjoyable form of self-expression, and that picking out what you're going to wear need not be some onerous chore. Inst…

> They're banned because they created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts. I too am interested in some sort of substantiation for this claim.

I like the idea that 'the people' who called the police and 'the people' who got diveintohtml5.info up and running are obviously the same people, cause they like, use the internet …

All the jQuery UI plugins allow you to fetch cached references to the widget's proxy elements by grabbing the instance from the jQuery data cache. var tabs = $("#mytabs").data("tab…

"Is it reference? No - they don't claim to be." They don't? http://gyazo.com/61a797188fa6045b23e6f5cf22006e1c.png

I wrote the "why don't you build a better version" text as a response to "Internet Culture," which mandates that if you want to point out that something is bad, you actually have t…

or a good rhyme...

"Sure, the information may be imprecise or just plain wrong, but we have to remember that this is for absolute beginners. Merely having errors does not make w3schools worthless, an…

OTOH, TaylorSwift.com was also hotlinking, which is pretty awesome.

We did a lot of analysis of the sites that were actually hotlinking, and are planning to reach out to those that are above board and should know better. By and large, however, most…