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Did anyone else read that as revered _dictator_? Current political climate is clearly having an effect.

I can think of many cases where I prefer a text-based interface to a phone call. I can't think of any case where I specifically prefer a bot-driven text-based interface to a human-…

Sometimes you eat the jellyfish. Sometimes the jellyfish eat you. I guess.

"Nighttime will be a different story. The brightness of Betelgeuse’s supernova is about the same as the quarter moon." This will last maybe a couple of weeks, but we don't expect i…

You reckon you could have guessed the input to this word cloud without being told what it was?

Agreed. I've been using Beta by Crashlytics as it is nice and cross-platform and works with ios7. Downside is the integration process and management console are a little tricky. ht…

I applaud brave move to base this on (the slightly terrifying) Wordpress because you seem to have made an "eyes-open" trade off between best and fastest implementation.

There can be only one Joe: http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/

John Calhoun would have wanted it this way.

I 'saw' it first? ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892747

"If we are right and it takes 5-6 years for search to mature globally (instead of 2 or 3 years)" Hard for me to believe that search will 'mature' in even 6 years. Seems to me like …

Is there an avenue for a Joe Schmo investor like me to get some exposure to the marijuana market? I'd definitely put some dollars behind the future of that commodity.

"I should mention that I have no real opinion on the language itself; I’m not a languages person (C will do, thanks), and that’s not the part of the system I have experience with a…

I live and work in a city of 300K people. My experience here is that companies have high hiring standards that border on the unreasonable (e.g. min 5 years of Ruby experience for a…

Please consider the environment before printing this config?

I've always thought about this as heap and stack people - those that are good at managing ideas with random access and those that prioritize the recent. A discussion between mismat…

Is there any correlation between population obesity and local temperature distribution? That is, are Alaskans generally thinner than Hawaiians and Swedish people thinner than Tunis…

You should build first for users (and customers, if they are not the same group as your users). I suggest making a guess at what platform your users prefer and focusing on that.

We're a generation of coders raised by email. I'm wondering if another email is really the answer we need.

Worked terribly in Safari on iPhone 4s. No excuse for that at this late day.