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I got some Vibrams around Christmas and have been wearing them solidly for about 2-2.5 months (since the weather warmed up). The harder layer of rubber has already worn through on …

The issue isn't what format the content is in, but that it's retrieved through client-side logic rather than as part of the query response. Also, what's wrong with HTML/CSS that is…

If you turn off Javascript and cookies, a ton of sites that serve what at least could be static content and which you don't need to log into simply stop working. What happened to g…

It's a gradient, not a binary. Adding colors to the metaphor adds words with no increase of understanding.

> they are still inherently hypocritical in that they shift that oppression to the opposing class. Calling affirmative action oppression of the "opposing class" (by which you presu…

To mangle a famous quote, "The greatest trick privilege ever pulled was to convince the privileged it didn't exist." One of the toughest problems with structural inequalities is th…

Once more, with feeling: pagination is an inappropriate paradigm for most web content. While I appreciate that they did not take advantage of the multiple page views to just get mo…

Are people really under the impression that Google and Facebook opposed SOPA for surveillance reasons? SOPA would have broken the Internet so fundamentally that they couldn't conti…

Personally, I like Adblock Plus (Good Karma Edition). By default, it allows ads through, but blocking them on a website that uses them badly (which for me means flashing or making …

Nothing terribly new, but it's good to see it on Forbes. Maybe finally these arguments, which have seemed patently obvious to those of us on the consuming end, will penetrate the b…

I doubt it, but we're talking about gamers here. They are being inspired to give because it fits in with their hobby and there's a giant progress bar that they can do their part to…

Same, here. It's really just the consistency I like about it. Or we could switch to Xtmas.

People abbreviate Christmas as Xmas. I feel that, for consistency, it should be Xian, rather than Xtian, but Xtian seems to be the standard. Incidentally, I enjoy that you used the…

That was actually one of the particular things I was thinking of when I said "multiple solutions to the same problem", so I didn't add it as a separate thing. Though it is a pretty…

In general, the main differences between distros consist of: - Versions of software included - Whether any "non-free" software is included - How the directory structure is used (fo…

My favorite 404: http://www.rathergood.com/404

You know you can hit the cancel button and it'll take you to the actual article, instead, right?

> Penalizing both students is clearly wrong if one student did the assignment properly without cheating, and the other student copied the first student's work. I had a professor wh…

It doesn't do any training during the game, except that it uses the correct answers already seen in a category to give weight to a specific interpretation of the category title.

I was at a watching party with a couple of IBMers who worked on Watson, and one thing they said is that it's not a question of speed, but of timing. Players time their pressing to …

Yes: http://www.nexenta.org/

While I'm not sure if there's an actual fusion in the depths of the naval, for practical purposes, the abdomen can be considered homeomorphic to the punctured plane, and treated ac…

This is kind of neat. It seems like it'd be useful as a more easily debugged Haskell. I'd be more inclined to actually play with it, though, if it accepted a superset of Haskell, w…

Perhaps I have not paid much attention, but I wasn't aware this community was so fond of companies tracking their internet usage.