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> as someone who has kept track of their skittles color distribution over the course of a year I mean did you not expect someone ask why? Also, why?

The script-markup mixture used by DoubleDollar or Backbone is really just a necessary quirk to achieve templating functionality. I haven't seen it done better honestly. Try it, you…

They don't consider it inhumane, because it lies around the general treatment these people will get for the majority of low wage low skill jobs in China. This unrest is good though…

Who says we're here to learn?

This is due to one of my least favorite traits about reddit: the hivemind criminalizes the rich and powerful by defining them as naturally evil. I don't know how this mindset got s…

I think most programmers and engineers have personalities that constantly question their own competency. This is predominantly a good quality as it leads to much more rapid talent …

> Black Hat Independent security consultant Stefan Esser... Is it correct to be calling him "black hat"?

Although I have taught myself a decent amount, I always just thought that I would wait until I had a proper CS degree. Plus I don't have much free time. I'm working 40+ hours a wee…

I'm a 17 year old self-taught programmer, and I'm very interested in creating a start up when I'm older. My problem is that I seem to alternate between two states of mind. Some day…

Smaller changes, smaller cakes.

I don't like that Coffeescript requires a compiler to create the actual javascript, but that they don't offer a cross-platform solution for this compiler. Yes, you can get the comp…

The combination of BeautifulSoup and mechanize also makes tasks incredibly simple.

People often say that gmail is arguably the best email webclient [1]. I realize that it offers decent storage and anti-spam, but I find it hard to believe that both of these featur…

Can we avoid these types of submissions in the future? This article isn't trying to educate the readers with anything in particular, HTML5 is just a buzz word and by dumping a ton …

I fail to pickup on how the personality in the interview seemed strongly female. Could you give an example?

My main sources of news are: 1) HN for news about technology, startups, and some programming 2) Reddit mainly for entertainment now, maybe a tiny bit of news, psychology articles 3…

As a high schooler, I'm fascinated with a similar paradox that I've observed. In my opinion there are four defining types of students, smart with a strong work ethic, average intel…

So is there an ideal case for selection sort that isn't shown or does it just suck? Edit : Never mind they explained: From the comparions presented here, one might conclude that se…

Something occupying /r/politics adds no merit to its political status.

The idea is that the MPAA or someone hired a company that executes DDoS attacks against torrent websites. It is in fact a immature retaliation. At the end of the day, even if the R…