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Ok, a followup. I poked around a bit more, and yeah, buried in the FAQ section I finally found the price: $11/month. That's $11/pair of socks. Yikes -- while there are socks worth …

My fiancee is probably your target demographic -- she LOVES socks to an irrational degree. I was very curious about what it would cost to buy this as a gift for her... but there's …

I think the article you're referring to is called "Is There Anything Good About Men", and has been submitted to Hacker News multiple times. Even though it doesn't have anything to …

I notice you don't yet support smart http(s). I wrote (well, update/adapted actually) a plugin for Redmine which allows hosting of git repositories ( https://github.com/ericpaulbis…

How is this superior to jplayer ( http://www.jplayer.org/ ) ? Jplayer is implemented in HTML5, but has a fall-back flash implementation for backwards compatibility, and like this i…

Have you considered implementing some sort of script to scan some of the large biological databases and add links/metadata for the datasets they contain? Looking at what's in CKAN …

I have an old Pentium II 300MHz PC from the late 90s with 128MB of memory. I'm not sure when exactly it was first purchased, since I first got it second hand off of someone else in…

Earlier this year, I moved from SVN to git when I found I really needed better branch management. One thing I found is that hosting a git repository is a lot less straightforward t…

This is very true, but contrary to what most people think the real danger isn't nuclear fallout but nuclear winter. Nuclear blasts kick up a lot of dust into the atmosphere, and ev…

Err... As chemists Watson & Crick were light-years behind Franklin. They initially proposed a model of DNA where the phosphates were on the inside. When they showed it to Franklin …

While I can understand how git is better for the majority of use-cases, I found that it was far less suitable than SVN for what I want to do. I used git for a while (3-6 months) an…

I admit that I find this critique rather convoluted, but as far as I can tell, the primary criticism of Romer's proposal is that setting up such a "charter city" requires that an e…