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I think the problem here is how important physical retailers are as partners in actually selling the console. You don't want to piss off Walmart/Best Buy/Game Stop too much or they…

If (for whatever reason) you have to write code with support for exception handling compiled out, goto statements are incredibly useful. While not quite as syntactically nice as a …

If you're not into CoffeeScript take a look at TameJS ( http://tamejs.org/ ).

I purchased a FitBit based on it's reputation without realizing that I would have to pay to access the data that I'm collecting... deal breaker! As others have said, I understand c…

This is awesome! One of my biggest gripes with using OSX was how terrible the GIMP experience was.

This seems to me like it would be an interesting hypothesis for a an experiment, but a bad idea to suggest/encourage in any "real" (IRS) capacity. Academically the idea is interest…

My work blocks the .xxx domain as well -- wish I'd looked at the domain before I clicked the link. What do you actually gain from the .xxx? Seems like it's just getting in the way …

Eventual payout from Google aside, I wonder if the team ever regretted the fact that taking funding "changed the yardstick" for success. I'd guess that going back to work for a big…

I don't really like the tone of this article. I think the sparrow team did what was best for them, and congratulations to them for a successful exit. Goodness knows I'd do the same…

This looks fine if you're a single developer working on a (relatively) small project, but what happens when you grow to two developers? Or you hand off the project? At that point s…