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Do "Women in Tech" conferences and workshops help to close the gender gap by actively working against the legacy of a male-dominated industry, the same way affirmative action works…

This sentence grossed me out: "The Twitter you experience today is rich and immersive, full of images, gifs, Vines, audio files and videos from some of the world’s most recognizabl…

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/548140622826459136

This explains the strangely-located hyphens I've been seeing in a book I'm reading currently. This must be exactly how the book was submitted.

Day comes over to shake her hand. Lori is laughing as Day declares her "the greatest Tetris player in the world," then turns to me to add, "And I must say, she's also the prettiest…

What are the practical consumer-level implications of this? My understanding is that every internet-enabled device needs a unique IP address. If there are no more unique addresses,…

Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet

Man what a great title

For anyone (like me) who thought the headline meant that Netflix is no longer available on Chromecast, that is not the case. Google and Netflix had partnered on a promotion to incl…

Well obviously URLs are for people because raw IP addresses are unsuitable, but that doesn't mean that textual URLs as they exist today are our best option. Even well-designed URLs…

Got distracted halfway through the thread, came back 10 minutes later, and read another 3 comments before I remembered it was a parody.

Like with "Disney's The Avengers"?

Busted.

It's an app store for apps that only run inside the Facebook app. Facebook is a platform in a platform - the "Inner-platform effect". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_ef…

I was about two paragraphs in before I realized that this has nothing to do with Lord of the Rings.