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My apologies.

So tell me, is two names United States, or any US state's law, or is it just a common assumption? Do programmers routinely look up the law for common assumptions? I'm guessing no. …

I don't fly much. When I have, it's a brief conversation with the TSA supervisor, followed by the miracle of flight.

Essentially true.

I usually use the same name in both fields. My question was more rhetorical to the person I responded to.

"Programmers should already handle that." Except they don't. I have a one-word legal name and I have rarely found any online from that allowed me to have less than two names. I rea…

I have a one-word legal name. Some people have two, three or more names. Now what?

In addition to randomly generating a man page from /bin, consider mining your command line history and randomly selecting anything whose man page you haven't yet read. You'll want …

Vim is too big to learn. Eventually you'll muscle-memory a set of actions, for the way that you uniquely use vim, that you don't even know how to explain without thinking about it.…

Some tasks contribute directly to goals, other tasks just get you through the day. Don't know what to make of that, other than to think that those two types of tasks are probably m…

"1. May work on a central tool to show same clean graph for ANY stock symbol. Thinking of a good domain name ... hmmm." cleanstockcharts.com is available. For now.

Except we won't. We rarely do, and only at onesies and twosies. Besides, they aren't working on the fiscal cliff anyway, even if it looks like they are. They're wielding a tool whi…

Except you don't do that to people. If you want to truly understand someone's condition, first be their friend and earn the right to talk to them about it. Or jump on wikipedia. Bu…

Are you OK with losing me as a customer? Because I don't have a smart phone.

You have a reasonable approximation of life security: food, shelter, health/healthcare, and financial flexibility. You have a goal and are substantially achieving it.

"Maybe each generation needs a space to call their own: We've never had a social graph last >10 years at scale." Physical postal addresses (and address books, if you insist). Telep…

Xubuntu, with awesome for the window manager.

I loved and miss the stylus on my palm devices. Accurate, natural, and you can use your fingernail if you lose the stylus. Touch always felt like a blunt instrument to me, and blin…

“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.” ― Winston S. Churchill http://www.goodreads…

Where on CNBC are these "Primer Posts" linked from? In other words, what CNBC page would I bookmark to see the latest one? The best I could come up with is a search, which is silly…

"I love technology. But coding just doesn't exite me. ... I just enjoy playing with the latest [...] product, watching TV, and reading Hacker News. What kind of life is that?" Have…

Question to motorheads: Would you use a shop manual exclusively on an ( your ) ipad? Or would you prefer to have a paper copy, so that you don't get your ipad greasy and scratched …

Maybe the $99 is a way to establish that a contract has been agreed on.