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It’s hard to run a business, but the hard part is not honoring your own stupid promotional gimmicks instead of using them to insult your customers and make them feel like complete …

Please fix the bug where trying to connect my account to a Google account just leads me to a completely blank page http://news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge with the word "Unknown."…

How about try await foo = bar(baz) as shorthand for await error, foo = bar(baz) if (error) throw error

URL detection is tricky because people omit the “ http://” part of URLs. It used to be that you could look for stuff beginning with “www.”, but nobody uses “www.” anymore, so now y…

Short answer: the latter is more true. The reason why {mi} is unmarked for number is simply that it’s defined that way. In Lojban, everything is unmarked for number by default. It’…

There are many people who can converse fairly well in real-time written Lojban (although vocabulary is limited, and some parts of the language are generally not used). Due to audio…

Go to #lojban on irc.freenode.net if you want to see Lojban conversation in action.