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Love rubular, use it every single time I write or edit a regex, just to test some weird cases while I think through the syntax.

>> No, even in a skill game, it is possible for someone who does not understand the rules to make the perfect play. > Disagree with your first point You may, but it is possible for…

> If it’s true that poker is a skill game, then only the true greats should be able to play perfectly. No, even in a skill game, it is possible for someone who does not understand …

Sorry, didn't mean to get your knickers in a twist, I was only being tongue-in-cheek.

Have you ever used PHP before?

So you did not read the article which actually addresses people who make this argument?

When people talk about 'the objectification of women,' they're not talking about the dictionary definition of the word objectification. It's shorthand for sexual objectification. h…

The best part of being in a field that changes so often is that years of experience don't count. You max out after a year. -------- And... quit reading.

Thanks a lot! We appreciate your help.

We personally prefer the user experience that we've crafted. Notifications in the app differentiate between new messages and mentions (in the room list), for one. We also feel that…

Technically, both Propane and Briquette use a Webkit view, but behind the scenes Briquette actually implements the Campfire API instead of scraping the campfire site for its conten…

Thanks, hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Hey all, We just pushed a new update to the Mac App Store for our Campfire client. Mainly bug fixes, performance enhancements, and support for foreign encoding. We're always lookin…

Yes, we've known (and been enraged by) the font-size changing bug as well. Not sure what the deal is with the beachball you've gotten intermittently, but there are a few updates in…

I agree, it's very important that we never do things that we might not be good at, or people traditionally think don't 'fit' with what programmers in general do. Any chance of fail…

While his statement was definitely prejudiced, don't you think assuming that 21-year-old nerds can't identify lightly applied makeup is also somewhat prejudicial?

Also note that translation is a very different task than parsing, or part-of-speech tagging, for example. Summarization and translation are both open research topics in NLP from wh…

Love the entitlement evident in his reply, "I'm a fucking Engine Yard programmer for fuck sake. We promote mongrel as a stable deployment stack" - does he think the fact that they …

If it's that easy, why not just implement it in the first place and give people less of a reason to lambaste your application that supposedly centers around privacy?

At least now the next time a client wants me to do something in .NET I have a good excuse to gently persuade them to something else (until this gets patched, at least).

If you hate researching new technologies and learning new languages, maybe developer wasn't the right profession?