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It's easier to share code nowadays given that momentum is part of a project's overall allure and that momentum is not easily recreatable.

From what I remember, you can change in and out of phone numbers like with Google voice - and there are a ton of them. I don't know if that matters for spammy calls - I don't know …

Does anyone else wonder whether or not the explosion of solar panel telemarketing calls are a consequence of how easy Twilio makes it to set up call center operations and change in…

That was then. This is now.

This differs from other Python frameworks like ask-alexa-py by being geared towards HTTPS endpoint development. ask-alexa-py is for Amazon Lambda. A video tutorial on the github pa…

In that case, you'd really enjoy Charlie Munger's parable about the Shoebutton Prince. The story goes that one of Charlie's distant relatives had cornered some part of the 1920's s…

Yep - that's the one. I remember it was slow and seemed to be built with either Java or Flash or something crazy.

I always suspected the cost was a function of the profits of the firms using them. I think it is a smart move to force bundle the hardware and form the users' keystroke habits over…

Talk about your SaaS. $24,000 a year for one of these babies. I think it's how he made most of his fortune. Edit: corrected for year https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-in…

I think the debate about Colleges vs. Bootcamps is an apples to oranges comparison Algorithms are commoditized into libraries. Web design has been commoditized with templates. Open…

Another project Google with kill in 6 months.

More like VI months?

It's good sauce

Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing. When I paste code, I include a comment with the link back to SO. I see it as the sta…

This is all correct except that financial accounting deals with external reporting and managerial accounting deals with internal reporting. But the distinction between bookkeeping …

Hopefully getlektor.com graduates to a top-level project there one day.

I bet you didn't know I'd read it with the Trivago spokesman's voice in my head. ;-P

For those of us who are pissed that this is going down but need the status to get on with our lives: nj48 is a known friendly who has identified himself to us. We're going to clari…