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I gave up on reading newspapers and watching TV news over a decade ago and I can't point to a single way that it's ever harmed me. My basic theory is as follows: - I miss out on th…

http://www.nephoscale.com/nephoscale-cloud-servers $7.30 / month for a 0.25G instance (on the members plan) $11.68 / month for a 0.5G $22.63 / month for a 1G I've worked with them …

Actually, it stood for "Editing MACroS" [1]. There are other expansions though -- see [2] below. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.html#Origin-of-t... [2] http://www.…

What you're talking about is a great example of good-faith communication. Unfortunately, it relies on both parties dealing in good faith, and I've had too much experience with peop…

As a developer, I'd just like to say: thank you for doing this. A good PM is literally worth their weight in silver (at today's price, anyway).

Ok, tell me if I have this correct: module Foo def hello puts "Hello World" end end ...in a different file... foo = Foo.new.msg Q: What does that print? A: There is no way to tell.…

Let me preface this by saying that I'm actually pretty much onboard with a lot of the Libertarian policies that I've heard. Like anything, of course, I think it can be taken too fa…

From the site: limit is $100 per transaction

After a marriage and a divorce I can expand on this (marital lessons reframed for business though). There's a second question to ask: how often do you fight? If you are generally i…

I'll ignore the ad hominem and the argument by implied assertion and assume that we have different definitions of "making people's lives better". What's yours?

The kindest thing I can say here is that I find your interpretation odd and that it contains some substantial And unusual interpretation of the text. Melanie said she tried the sta…

I consider Zuckerberg to be rich. As far as I can tell from his and FB's public-facing personas, he's a failure at the things that really matter -- integrity, positive impact on ot…

"I am doing a startup because...." So, to you, it's not a startup unless it's what the OP calls the "go big or go home" approach. The OP asserts that that is not a critical element…

Actually, anyone is allowed "who is willing to be called Ben for the evening".

Hey yakshaving, I like the idea and you've got an interesting internal page, but your front page ("What if deploying your code...") is literally unusable on an iPhone and probably …

Perl 5 actually has several ways of doing macros without using source filters -- pragmas are one example.

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"Should you invent something that can be used for both good and [evil]?" Don't worry about this. Literally every invention since fire falls into this category. (Edited for content.…

They aren't happy. They are drugged. Any time anyone starts to have any questions or qualm of any kind, they have been trained to drug themselves into insensibility rather than thi…

Those aren't underground jellyfish, they are underwater. That part of the word (west of center, where the ships are) is ocean. But yeah, it's confusing at first.

Sure it exists. Have a services that is free to use but includes charges for one particular highly desirable function. One example is a game with in-app purchasing of new levels, c…

Why the ShakyCam? It was so bad it made me dizzy.