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Yes, there appears to be a lot of shenanigans going on :) I went to the site and everything was washed out in red.

The website http://programmingpraxis.com has a ton of interesting puzzles.

> I don't really understand what it means for physical items like shoes to be open source in the sense that some software is. Tangentially related, but despite the article's defini…

From their site: > App.net will only be funded if at least $500,000 is pledged by MONDAY, AUGUST 13 at 11:59PM PDT. Why is this? They aren't going through Kickstarter, it's their o…

I use both gmail and hotmail (or outlook.com now) and the titlebar in this case is the same as in gmail: it has the user-name of the person logged in, the "options" (gear icon), th…

Do the auto generated clients only return JSON for each client library? Do you still need to write your own parser to parse the JSON? * Nevermind. Yes they return JSON, I just read…

I've heard that grad students go through something very similar when they go to grad school: feelings of inferiority and fears of being "exposed" as fake when surrounded by so many…

I liked the demo, but why do I need to purchase the specific webcam? Is there any plan to create a service that works with regular built-in (Macbook) webcams?

Are you saying it's a bad thing? I don't think it's worth halting technologic advancements and improvements in the name of saving (unskilled) jobs.

For vim I really like the github color theme: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2855 . I do use solarized for my term though.