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The author forgot to mention mouse gestures. The reason I still use Opera over Chrome is because of its excellent support for mouse gestures (the various mouse gesture extensions j…

Does anyone else thing that the documentation for ember.js is really lacking? Some of the classes it has aren't even documented (ContollerMixin comes to mind) and others are lackin…

Umm yeah that's a 4k line C file?

Looks cool, but what's up with the source being just one 4k line C file?

Yeah, that's very witty, congrats. If we were in the steel industry, the right thing to do would be to see that the military doesn't get steel. But we're not, we're mostly programm…

The second is the most sensible option. I'm not saying people should stop using Linux, I'm just saying that programmers should be more aware of the politics of their work (professi…

No, I pay EU taxes (which also go to a lot of amoral causes) but I don't have a choice in the matter, really.

Sort of, but the main difference is to what extent are you supporting killing and suffering and whether you have a choice. The question of social responsibility of programmers (and…

Yeah, military drones using Linux, what a big win. The fact that the military uses Linux is a big negative for Linux in my eyes. If you support Linux, you're indirectly supporting …

Awesome! Very clear and well-written reference. I wish someone would make a reference like this for remote branches and repos, I always keep forgetting commands for setting upstrea…

Is there anything in the article that leads you to believe he meant important in that sense? Cause I don't see it. He constantly puts important in quotation marks and really doesn'…

The article is built on the distinction between unimporant and important problems and yet it goes out of its way to avoid stating his opinion on what makes a problem important. He …