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Does anyone know if he will still run electoral-vote.com?

I founded a company in 2003 and I heard almost every one of these. Some of them from women.

I don't think you explained it well from the boss's perspective. Why didn't he want you to rewrite the app from C++ to Ruby? Maybe it's not just that you did too much work, but tha…

The "error-free Internet"? Really? The truth is that most engineers are aware of what Agile is. It's a series of principles used to run a software development project. Agile isn't …

I should invest in baskets.

How does this compare to the real user monitoring in NewRelic? I know NR is commercial and not cheap, but in features? Thanks!

The article on Al Jazeera's imprisoned reporters was a really good read. I guess I should thank you for sending me there.

I took the admittedly stupid approach of just clicking the link, while at work, with my office door open. As it turns out, it's on the up-and-up, all good, works as expected.

Comcast has it's own netflix-like service. They call it something like Xfinity OnDemand. It's actually not terrible.

This. I work roughly 55 hours a week. I love my work, but I wish I didn't have to work so hard. We're constantly hiring, but always a couple hires behind the workload. Of course, i…

I hate to be the....umm...what's the opposite of naysayer? Yaysayer? I hate to be the yaysayer here, but... 1) The design is great! Simple, fast, easy to read. I understood the poi…

I think any project worth doing will have some competition. "competition" can also mean "market validation". I understand you're not trying to get rich off this, but I think you'd …

Wouldn't this encourage cross-department collaboration? My logic goes like this: Collaborating makes one succeed. But, you don't want your team to succeed, because then you might b…

Pasting code from a website, even with explanations, worries me far more than someone recording my Internet search history.

If it's on a technical topic, then I say post it. But, we've seen a lot of repetition and hand-wringing on the subject. If it doesn't add anything new to the conversation, whether …

Server based lookups have their own problems. An attacker can guess a session ID and spoof that customer. Storing hundreds of thousands of session IDs on disk or in the database ca…

"I'm not sure he's thought this through, though. I would be more worried that someone would kill me in order to get the documents released than I would be that someone would kill m…

Why the hating on the HURD?

Loved the story about the squirrel

I'm torn. On one hand, this is delicious irony. On the other hand, the Republicans have used any pretence to tell us that the President is a terrorist, Muslim, non-American, bad gu…

"Due to this increasing misuse of the service and a desire to keep our community safe and secure, we are deprecating downloads." What misuse? Did I miss something? Lots of pedo-por…

Yeah, I thought that was confusing. "We're the only", "but in some circumstances we're not really talking about everyone". I thought it was worth answering the question "did GM pay…

I'm not an economist, but this is how I understand it. GM paid back it's debt in full, but it paid most of it back in stock. The US government has sold some of it, so it's gotten a…

You're right. I shouldn't have busted on plants vs zombies. My point was that Minecraft is a particularly good game.