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I hate to harp on one minor point that he made, but I strongly disagree with his assertion that you could dump CoffeeScript, stick with the generated JS, and be happy with it. The …

Nitpick: BEQ, the guy who did that AMA, is a crossword puzzle constructor who has had some puzzles published in the NYT. Will Shortz is the NYT crossword editor.

" Avidavit of adverse possession"?

Yes, HTML is not a regular language, and so cannot be matched with true regular expressions. As mentioned elsewhere, most "regex" libraries in existence today are not limited to si…

The author of this article seems to be unfamiliar with the concept of an internship. Peter is an intern because he's still in college, not because of some mythical gauntlet that ne…

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=56

Oooh, my favorite part is on line 136, when he claims "RSA 2048 was not able to resist in front of me". That's a pretty, um, "interesting" characterization of the level of sophisti…

Sounds like Twitter hasn't even reached startup status, then.

I think this sentiment applies to more than just startups, but really any organization where there's a tendency to say "that's not my job" or "oh, if I don't do it someone else wil…

I really don't want to change the subject or take away from the discussion about Bill, but I just want to quickly interject and say I disagree with this. I have now lived in Prince…

The reality, for better or for worse, is that a lot of the companies that are using puzzles like this prefer false negatives over false positives. In other words, they would rather…