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Very complex, yeah. Hamas kidnapped those kids and murdered them. Bad, bad Israelis, not letting Hamas kill more children like that. This hypocrisy is just ridiculous.

What bothers me is that Hamas (and jihad-driven islamists in general) are seemingly a minority, even in Gaza. Why don't you build a reservation for them or something? There are man…

Fun fact: they are not alone in this, I am aware of at least two startups that do the same thing to CVS (one already acquired by Cisco, the other one is ongoing). And having used C…

Whether you end up in jail depends on something else entirely. Let's say that our individual in question needs to lack empathy and be more able than an average cop in that location…

It's not "you deserve it" (which has a bad connotation, as if not being rich is derogatory). More like, if you seem to be unable to amass cash, then you are probably unable; do som…

That's what I love in Django, they tend to keep intact things that are functioning well. A rare quality. I wish this was the case with many commercial programs, e.g. Skype.

I would assume that WSH doesn't actually work in OS X, since 1999 and to this day. So while it's kind of ancient, it's also completely unrelated to the topic of discussion.

Exactly. I had a co-worker once, who was a JavaScript programmer — with zero knowledge of JavaScript. Could not tell function call from variable definition, and wasn't willing to l…

With this I completely agree. Professionalism is just that — being productive, doing your job and not behaving like a princess in the absence of ideal conditions and stuff. In "rig…

As an author of a (small) number of npm+bower packages I must admit that nope, that's not "standard" in any meaningful way.

Absolutely nothing, Terminal.app is good enough.

As a Russkie Israeli, I can add that Russkies are way more rude in daily life than Israelis, for reasons unknown.

While an Orthodox Jew cannot directly ask you to take his cellphone and turn it on, he or she will be indifferent to you taking and power cycling it voluntarily. It's the intent an…

Israeli here, flying to Europe couple of times/year. They don't make you turn on all electronics in Ben Gurion, that's just not true; asked me to boot up my laptop once or twice (p…

Not long ago I started a similar project, https://github.com/mvasilkov/readability2 Works as a SAX consumer, pretty fast, not sure how accurate.

Yup, this certainly needs work. Myself, I was very skeptical, until one day I decided to start my new project in Python 3 and quickly realized that everything isn't that much ruine…

I second Pixelmator. It's great for simple edits, and also provides some of the more complex, Photoshop-esque tools. Also pretty fast.

Some Google Apps users got banned (allegedly for TOU violation, but no one cared to even tell wtf was wrong), a number of emails weren't delivered, no support whatsoever was provid…

Exactly my thoughts. It may be acceptable-ish for a personal home page, but using this for anything that's remotely useful and/or has more than one user, no way in hell. Already tr…

We have users in China, and unfortunately CloudFlare is banned there too. Also Russia blocks some of CloudFlare's IP addresses, and Iraq AFAICT.