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> He named his BBS "TacoLand". It certainly wouldn't have been unusual for a young Beto O'Rourke (or any other Texan) to have tacos on his mind for any number of reasons, but "Taco…

Whatever data Apple has on me evidently tells them that I have giant hands and inexhaustible disposable income.

I doubt that specialists are keen to adapt their terminology to reflect popular usage and would much prefer things to work the other way around. It looks like the word we should be…

I love the name. I realize that the word appears in many contexts, but it invariably reminds me of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

I had a lot of fun building a small app with Ratpack several months ago, but its online manual is full of TODOs. If you're comfortable with Groovy or Java, I'm sure they would welc…

A probably apocryphal story claims Cutlar said to Griffin, "It was eating my potatoes." Griffin replied, "It is up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig."

Webpack supports the former if you use [hash] (or [chunkhash] ) in the output filename. [1] This is what create-react-app uses. [2] [1] https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/…

> People have a right to their beliefs, even if their beliefs are stupid. If not, than what kind of country are we? Politics is a process of conflict and negotiation between varied…

That's true. http://www.economist.com/node/1897472 "Initiatives are also responsible for another feature that makes the Assembly unworkable: term limits. These may sometimes be des…

"When the pointer is locked, users will see a banner explaining that the mouse cursor is hidden, and that they can get out of pointer lock by pressing the Escape key." I beg your p…

Comparing streaming figures with download numbers or CD/LP sales is odd. There's a difference between plays and purchases .

> Has anyone written a guide or supporting tools for creating your own config as a reusable module from the beginning? It feels like there's a gap which needs filled there. It look…

John Podesta. @pwnallthethings provided good context for this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/81662155364329472...

> In fact, the states backing the college were some of the most populous as long as you count slaves. Worded another way: The states backing the college were some of the least popu…

I'm curious about the lack of a hardware power button. I wonder how one forces one of these new Macs to shut down when it hangs?