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I'd just like to comment, because this comment hasn't attracted any replies yet, and it is: a) moronic b) completely tangental to the point under discussion The list of "things tha…

It's kind of interesting, but damn this guy cannot communicate effectively. Was the point that > 8 bits of colour in HDMI is a good idea? That modern displays can't show them (I do…

The point is that democracy is not always good if you want to be exposed to new and interesting things. A million people will listen to Justin Beiber, or Katy Perry, but how does a…

If you nofollow the links you won't be penalized.

You don't happen to work at Cloudera, do you? I noticed you have some submissions about Impala and Oracle being evil, which seems to be a pretty common view among the ex-Oracle DBA…

In the next year I can imagine most people deploying Spark will be doing it on Hadoop, since Cloudera 5 will support Spark. It's a natural fit, most people don't hate HDFS but thei…

Buffet isn't a bad guy per se, but it's worth noting that a lot of the businesses Berkshire Hathaway owns are benefiting from inequality. Wikipedia mentions jewelery and uniform ma…

The problem is that SO is not for entertainment. It's not even really for education. They (the site's operators) want it to be an injective mapping of google queries to solutions. …

To me, $.50 a page for a list of links to other resources seems like selling shovels to people trying to get in on the coding "goldrush". That said, I'd be into doing a review for …

Flagged, because this is a complete non-story. It's not interesting, it's not well written, they probably feel like they've come out ahead by getting lots of views for their crappy…

As far as I can tell the content of the update is never sent back. I just went on FB and started typing a status update. The status box expands, and loads some extra assets. But yo…

On mobile (KitKat, Chrome) the actual annotations obscured the text, and I couldn't figure out how to actually see them. It was easy to scroll through the unannotated bits though.

If you need some help with developer events in the Ottawa area feel free to get in touch. I typically do Ottawa Javascript, Ruby Tuesday and sometimes the ArtEngine Modlab as well.…

edit: I get that this is a personal issue for you, and you got piled on for giving an anecdote that didn't fit people's expectations. I wasn't following the whole thread, so I didn…

My understanding is you get a DropBox-esque directory where you can download n tracks, in addition to whatever you own otherwise. The tracks are all DRMed and log the number of pla…

There's a library for a PC to control the wall warts; I've done some fun stuff automating power cycling with it. You could plug the USB-enabled controller into a server, and then w…

Can anyone from the Bay Area comment on the frequency of these mass firings among small companies? I'd never heard of it until recently, but I've seen a couple now - at least this …

Seriously? In my experience (in Canada), the majority of engineering universities offer a co-op program. I get that Waterloo is the shit right now, but they don't produce the major…

Having survived a childhood of OHIP, I find it hard to believe that your son received a significantly worse quality of care because you were in Canada. I don't doubt some doctors a…

Why does AirBnb even allow more than one listing per user? How many people have multiple residences which they can legitimately rent out legally? It seems like it would stem a lot …

Maybe you aren't a native English speaker, so this is a misunderstanding. Despite what it literally means, "to undo" in common English usually just means "screwed over". If he had …

Does anyone gain anything from these graph visualisations? The first few times I saw one I was impressed, but this one is so huge and nondescript, I think it's impossible to take m…

> CAT is currently at NASA Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3, meaning we are in the midst of performing experiments to probe its feasibility, thanks to private sponsorship Clickin…

As far as I can tell it also helps avoid bank runs. If you can only withdraw a small amount of your balance every day, it may prevent the price from tumbling precipitously when peo…