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Good point. I think there's real value in replacing even just the verbiage of "Closed as duplicate" with something like a "Related Questions" section. It would remove a lot of the …

I'm not sure a strong case can be made that Google should be obliged to do that. There already exist TLD suffixes reserved for testing. ".dev" just isn't one of them.

This.. seems to resolve every issue I might have otherwise had with the story, including the impulse to yell at Google about it, but the author himself makes a fair case for not do…

I guess we're wandering a bit from the topic, but I used to feel the same way about, of all things, that childhood pastime of spinning around with your arms out. I spent more time …

I apologize if this is too far off-topic, but all this talk of "focus" lately keeps reminding me of A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge, where a much more sinister (and more sci…

Just that, when you run '$ git nonstandard-subcommand', then the git executable looks for anything executable in the path that is named 'git-nonstandard-subcommand'. Then it runs i…

Say someone decides to mark all the significant events in his life. And notices that it's beginning to spell words.. maybe a neat story?

Holy cow, was this a refreshing perspective. I'm one of those underrated engineers who has had trouble getting past nearly every phase of the hiring process at various times. It's …

That's one where experience playing darts really helps. :-)

She's right about squaring on each iteration, though. And granted, a square root is much more expensive, though done only once. Which method is faster would depend on the number of…

Honestly, just stand a little bit farther back. The main factor seems to be the angle at which each participant has to crane their necks in order to make eye contact.

The dismissive exaggeration with which this comment describes the topic seems to indicate a hostile disdain that I find confusing, all the more for how common it seems to be. I can…

I'll take two of this on a t-shirt, please.

I would rather have incomplete knowledge of a topic than none. The toughest part of learning something, like so many other cases, is in getting started. Also, I can't be sure pendi…

> that doesn't mean we treat them like sub-humans... we just have less patience with the shit they are inevitably going to give us. While I have difficulty agreeing that the homele…

This has really got me wondering: What would be a format that is fundamentally readable by both humans and computers? And what does that question really mean?

Without looking into the source, I'd bet someone tweeted the "exploit", just to make the point that going to that page basically runs arbitrary javascript in your browser.

I love this idea. Unfortunately, everything I tried gave me: Sorry, I couldn't do this search. Could not find a location matching "Nashville, Tennessee" I'm.. so proud. :-/ One mor…

Great idea, but -- why limit it to one site? If bandwidth is the concern, I'd still suggest making available a small suite of sites of special interest to the homeless.

I agree that a five-second startup can hardly be said to break usability, especially for something that many people will leave running for a long time. That said, though, if I was …

May I inquire after your basis for the apparent certainty you have for this position?

If free will didn't exist, it would be necessary to create it.

My PC must not be "proper". Aw, snap.

Hardcore vim user seconds this.

It's about time a Comcast rep showed up here. :-)