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Try looking again - maybe you caught a version that didn't render correctly. There is actually quite a bit of explanatory text, and it's quite good!

It's probably a free-tier heroku app, being hugged to death right now. I've used this site quite a bit in the past on FireFox, Chrome, and Brave, and it has worked perfectly before…

This article makes it sound like the slogan is just some marketing gimmick, but the slogan is actually just a fair description of the sad reality of the situation. HP is promoting …

We've been using Backbone+Marionette at my company, and in general I like it, and it's much cleaner than just vanilla Backbone, but I still feel like it falls short for medium-to-l…

Oh that's cool, thanks for the reply. I haven't looked at Q yet, but I've heard a lot about it. I guess it's time to have a look.

I like your approach with your await library. You're probably aware of this, but the jQuery "Deferred" implementation of promises has a similar mechanism that I'm not sure is commo…

I used AttributeRouting for a fairly large ASP.NET MVC 3 project. I found it really clean and useful - I preferred having the routing information declared on the methods themselves…

I tried on Chrome and got 6 days old. I then tried it on IE9 just out of curiosity, and got 579 days old. Also, the site doesn't seem to render or work correctly on IE9. The initia…

From what I understand, the HTML+Javascript WinRT APIs are really only supported on the "full" Windows RT/Metro environment, not Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 8 supports C#/VB+XAM…

It could also mean that "mom and pop" companies can no longer get into the hardware game at all. If there is no margin for hardware sales, only companies that can afford to setup t…

Is that at the expense of the desktop and enterprise users? Only time will tell, but if the touch hardware ends up not working out, are they going to still have the desktop users t…

You could boil these observations down to "it's different," but that doesn't mean you're not also allowed to come to the conclusion that "it's awful" (or on the flip-side that "it'…

The marketing churn surrounding Windows 8/Windows RT/WinRT/Metro style/Windows 8 style/etc. is just confounding and embarrassing. Maybe I'm over-reacting as a somewhat-interested s…

The thing I liked about oh-my-zsh when I switched from another shell was that it provided a wide variety of pre-built "plugin" scripts for customizing the shell for various environ…

After spending a few weeks using the Windows 8 Release Preview (on a mouse and keyboard PC), I came to the same conclusions as this article. Metro is fine for touch devices, and Wi…

That's a good point, the name is definitely memorable.

I agree that the content is what matters, but I just feel like it's a crying shame that a service like DuckDuckGo will never be taken seriously because of its name.

Am I the only one that struggles with the name "DuckDuckGo?" The unprofessional name makes it really hard for me to want to use the service, even if it has nice targeted results th…

Separate vars is what I prefer to do, but JSLint actually recommends that you change multiple var statements to a single var with variables separated by commas (and with a semicolo…

Yeah, I agree, submodules prevent the copy and paste rot that can happen when you copy library code directly into your repo. We've been using submodules for most of our projects, a…

Part of me wants to see this come into fruition, and I think that's the same part of me that wants to look at car accidents on the side of the road as I drive by.

This is refreshing to read. I worked with ActiveMQ for about 2 years, and had nothing but problems with it. We probably lost thousands of dollars in sales because of lockups, corru…

That site would be better if it was "cringe.ly"

I think people need to just get over it. It's a free service. Almost every good, free service on the internet has some amount of annoying advertising.