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they certainly ban people who do GPS spoofing although I can't speak to how rigorously enforced those checks might be

Before I authorized the browser to send geolocation information, it dropped me in Russia. Maybe it's the default?

it feels more like Python 3 is similar to the transition between PHP 4 and 5. Painful, sure but ultimately not a deterrent to language adoption. I'm sad about this, I loved program…

everyone with any interest in the AK-47 should read http://cjchivers.com/aboutthegun (The Gun, by CJ Chivers). Although it spends a lot of time examining historical contexts for ma…

I'm seeing the same error, trying to visit http://www.flipmeme.com/image/VR3oq from http://www.flipmeme.com/image/XWkG2 Great site, I can see myself hitting the right arrow key for…

For people who's departure causes significant external ripples, it's never really couched as firing though, is it? There is a carefully coded message (perhaps even internally) abou…

mail sent, thanks for taking a look. Same username as here.

import isn't instantaneous - I uploaded my delicious links, and was promised an email when import finished. Still no email (an hour or so later) :) - tbf, there's about 3000 links

they need constant care and monitoring - especially after heavy storms or bad weather of any sort, really. The tree lined boulevards in my city routinely disrupt traffic after mons…

Did you mean Robert Heinlein? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

I really like the idea and UI, thanks for sharing. Minor typo: Let it be investors, founders, owners or just jourself should be "yourself".

By and large, I've had the opposite problem making a lasting switch from Perl to Ruby. I know Perl better than most other languages in my toolbox, and it's my default prototyping a…

I agree completely with everything that you say. Yet the problem now is if you spend all that time communicating, you still can't know for sure if everyone was listening or tuning …

Having out of state plates seems to help. My rental car has NY plates, that seems to reduce expectations that I'll run a yellow anywhere in Boston. Which basically means, I only ex…

Despite the last paragraph in the article, another reason for refusing to upgrade is the costs involved in service pack upgrades. IE 7 is only available for Windows XP SP2 and high…

At least one of the problems, IME, is that salary ranges are rigidly determined by the employee tier. The tiering system goes something like this: Software Engineer -> Lead -> Arch…

even when everyone dials in, the people using a cellphone or joining conference calls while travelling are at a distinct disadvantage. Any number of calls I join have at least one …

actually, I feel you may have made the case for outsourcing. In your example - it was a single task. Working with the assumption that domain expertise can be acquired on the job, t…