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It's fun? A lot of people build things for fun, you wouldn't tell someone building a table not to do it because we already know how to build tables.

That's how I do it, it works great that way. I didn't actually set up the gh-pages as a proper submodule, I just cloned the branch to a folder. Then I added the gh-pages folder to …

Go might have had less marketing than Java, but it still had a decent amount of support. There were several high quality promotional videos when it was first released. The web page…

There's no crime there. People have the right to say offensive things in the privacy of their own homes. Other people have the right to disagree with the first people, and to even …

I just happened to see a thread about that. Apparently it will work fine on JVM/Android/iOS since those targets use Java bytecode. It won't work on HTML5/Flash since those use the …

GoFlow.com is a site about sailing, this site's at http://flowstateengaged.com/

You are correct, but it's still fun to speculate wildly.

There is a cost to voting on Reddit, it's the time/attention cost of moving your mouse over and clicking a tiny button. Sometimes you even have to log in! For people browsing a web…

If you start depending on reflog just remember that changes in there are subject to garbage collection. Commits can be permanently deleted after they are 2 weeks old (by the defaul…

There's nothing about the US's past behavior which suggests that we're afraid of pissing off friendly countries. :) We're a bunch of international bullies, basically.

It's kind of surprising how flat the curve is. Even the "worst" major choices still have plenty of people that make it to the 1%. Of course, nowhere from this data can we conclude …

That talk gets quoted pretty often, but it's a bit silly for Hoare to take all the blame/credit. Null references were discovered, not invented. They are so easy (from the point of …

Maybe you could argue that it was the right approach at the time. But deciding that the data doesn't matter anymore is not cool, you have to take care of your paying customers or e…

Another interesting case is Quake 3 which used a hand-written stack based VM. They don't introduce much of a performance hit when used wisely.

I tried just hitting "Grade it" and got this reply: > Oops, looks like we found 0 errors in your code. Try again and click "Grade it!" So I guess that means I passed? (After reload…

NaCl is nice and all, but it's better to have something that works perfectly fine on top of Javascript/HTML5, rather than only inside NaCl.

This story occurs a few dozen times a day in the valley, but I guess when it's a cute young girl, it's newsworthy.

I don't get how NaCl can be a tool for controlling content, when it's easy to convert an NaCl app into a native app that can be downloaded and run at will. You can't really have Mi…

Wait.. why is raganwald replying to raganwald?

There's one here: https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/blob/master/neo/idlib/Hea... Surprisingly there's not a lot of platform-specific cruft in that code. The Xbox version of Doom3 …

how come I went through a Facebook warning page when I clicked the FancyPants link?

Anyone that uses a check cashing business or accepts a bad loan is probably doing it wrong too, but that doesn't stop millions of people from doing those things. Regulating that ki…