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OK Cupid also has questions covering: - Evolution. - Whether or not dinosaurs were a thing. - If the Moon landing happened. - The relative size of the Earth and the Sun. - If Astro…

Maybe this is not really an issue for homosexual couples, but I would never have considered Tinder because unlike OK Cupid, there's no way to filter out Republican-hates-the-gays-h…

C# and Java optionals aren't very useful, since they would be reference types themselves, and thus could be null! I would submit Rust and Swift as "decent" type systems, if Haskell…

"Decent" is being very kind to any language that has a type system where every reference type is implicitly a Maybe (okay, Scala exists).

GitX is my favorite, despite being quite buggy, because the others I've seen are all way too complicated. I really just want visual log and visual add -p and GitX nails that.

The author of NSHipster works for Apple now and typically, Apple employees don't blog about work - possibly a policy?

If you call 311, TLC will slap a $300 fine on them, so taking out your phone and doing that will instantly fix the machine.

It's really not an issue in New York. 311/TLC doesn't mess around with this.

There are so many cabs that I don't really see the need for this, and most cabs take Apple Pay now, so I've never really seen the point of this and the other one (is there another …

In New York, taxis are required to have functioning credit card machines. http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/passenger_creditc...

Small PRs are an issue because PRs are dependent on other users and can't be dependent on a prior PR. Let's say we're adding an interface/typeclass/protocol and a concrete implemen…

This is a bad idea masquerading as a good idea. Before making a pull request (or doing any sort of merge), you should rebase against upstream master (or whatever you're going to pu…

I'd shorten that to: > Contrary to what this VC believes, it is NOT okay to expect someone to "work 60 hours a week at Facebook" Let's get one of these already https://en.wikipedia…

To be clear - this is a bike lane on a road with onramps ? Uh, what? There aren't even bollards (in the part without an onramp, obviously) or any semblance of protection.

Non-"blatant spam" email advertising really isn't better. Purchasing a product from almost any non-Amazon company will instantly sign you up for an almost daily torrent of email. E…

Using a language in which 1 + "1" == "11" instead of one of the best type and null-safe languages to be developed in the past few years is not exactly my idea of a delightful exper…

In this case, though, as I understand it (I live in NYC and am thus not the target market for these types of products besides maybe lightbulbs), Apple's solution, HomeKit, does all…

You can also use .json (for almost every Reddit URL, actually!)

Both you and the OP are incorrect. The file is not included in the app (only referred to), but is only downloaded by iOS itself - or anyone who points a web client directly at it, …

> "HubSpot and John have decided to go separate ways" That's not much better. It's very rarely mutual. Either John has been fired, or John has found another job - perhaps at a comp…

I have dogs in my office. They run around and bark all the time. Their presence shows to me that serious engineering work is not important, but the image of being a "startup" is. T…

> play table tennis daily Do you still leave 8 hours after you arrived, or do you add the table-tennis time? If so, do people that do not play table-tennis leave 8 hours after they…