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nothing i said was factually incorrect. the truth hurts i guess. it's pretty funny that you revisionist history mormon apologists will claim that his 1826 trial records are fake, b…

the fact that a multinational organization with revenues in the billions can do SEO is not at all impressive to me. furthermore, you really need to question your belief system and …

stop reinventing the square wheel, please. i don't want to play a game that looks like it's from 20 years ago, the only difference being it runs EVEN WORSE than it did on a 486.

he left out this caveat about the nginx comparison: "Please take with a grain of salt. Very special circumstances. NGINX peaked at 4mb of memory Node peaked at 60mb."

and out comes mongo's dirty little secret - you have to have enough ram in your boxes to hold not just all the data in ram, but all the indexes too, or it completely shits the bed.…

i'd argue that almost everything done online (posting to twitter, writing a blog, and yes posting comments here, updating facebook) is done primarily to show off, garner attention,…

I can't wait for Obie's next book, "The Jails Way" seriously though, if you associate and start businesses with people who send fake invoices for deceptive services like this, you …

wow, lots of homophobe-apologists masquerading as free speech crusaders here tonight. it doesn't take a genius to realize that: a) having a lightning-rod homophobe/bigot on the tea…

what about the crappy user experience of having a blog and no place for people to comment?

this article's entire argument seems to be based around the idea that people only use twitter to broadcast mundane personal updates. that would get old very fast. 5 seconds of actu…

"I'm no prude" I'd argue that you are, and you have some extremely revealing hang-ups about sex and sexuality, as evidenced by your reaction to a freaking cartoon avatar ("make me,…

i think this fellow is right on the money. our economy borrows against future real growth to finance itself, and that will never work in the long term - that real growth is physica…

The per-capita deficit isn't really that meaningful. $1000 a person isn't even that much - each citizen of the USA would have to pay $35,462.89 to cancel out the country's national…

this makes me wonder about the backup systems of sites like tinyURL. imagine all those shortened URLs everywhere becoming useless!

have you ever tried to click the tiny comments link from an iphone? it's pretty hard, without zooming in.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Spolsky's significant bias in this argument: His company makes bug tracking software! Of COURSE he wants to cast unit testing in a bad light - do…

it's because the ruby implementation of "fasta" computes the entire result in memory and then prints it out; the lua one prints as it goes. so, i'd take it with a huge slab of salt…

let this be a reminder that actions have consequences, and none of us lives in our own isolated bubble. treat others as you'd like to be treated - and that applies both to Arringto…

guy adds $1 million to bottom line. guy gets stock options, but only if he agrees to work there full-time?!? does anyone else see the ridiculousness in joel's proposal? no wonder t…