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SMTP is just a bad protocol and it needs to go away. Unworkable.

Yea, that's exactly what it's for.

Distributed programming is a means to an end, not a goal. If you had a computer with infinite cpu and ram and it could never crash and be geographically close to every customer, yo…

fwiw, there's a new syntax for this, that is a bit more verbose, but probably worth adopting: docker container rm $(docker container ls -qa) docker image rm $(docker image ls -q)

Oops. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Fixing...

Does this solve the state-sharing difficulties of the python solution?

This is so addictive...

No demo video?

Say index funds become illegal, just for the sake of argument. Aren't they replaceable by an algorithm - trading software that balances a portfolio that copies an index per investo…

Should be tagged NSFW.

Have you looked at docker as a replacement for creating all those AMIs? You could have one AMI (with Docker) installed, and then use Ansible to pull whichever container (app) you w…

I'm sorry but "predictable results in communication" is not the criterion for being meaningful. If you fart in a courtroom, you get very predictable results, too. The phrase isn't …

This sounds very Wittgensteinian. In terms of his philosophy of language, what we have here is a "metaphor gone wild". You take "intellectual" and "property", you put them together…

I actually find the scroll motion to be very easy to perform using my index finger. However, I do agree there are issues to consider when it comes to usability. You definitely want…

Very true. I got a rough POC of this, implemented using the technique in this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22816419/11208 (just with divs instead of images) It's very brittle…

Thank you! Just tried it. I'm in love. :)

About popups/tooltips/hovercards: I considered this approach, but decided to go with this sort of "inline" expansion for the following reasons: 1. A popup obscures the original tex…