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Sadly this isn't entirely new news: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_fra... http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html

I find this: http://martin.kleppmann.com/2014/11/25/hermitage-testing-the... a more informative read on essentially the same topic.

Seems like classic Hawthorne effect...

I'd assumed it was a reference to jwz's "how will this software get my users laid": http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html Maybe I'm giving them too much credit...

I don't know if it's any simpler, but I tend to do: git init . git remote add origin git://github.com/eentzel/dotfiles.git git checkout -t origin master

Go has a great solution for this in the binary package: http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/binary/#Read I've been working on some code to parse the shapefile format, which specifies so…

I'll just leave this here in case anyone still cares... http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...

Apparently it's managed to destroy even the minimal level of talent needed to construct a readable PNG.

Agreed that the web doesn't have any "magical properties", but it has the "Worse is Better" survival characteristic; or at least it did in its early days. I think the web's continu…

I think the snake-oil nature of (much of) SEO stems from the fact that it's difficult or impossible to measure in an accurate, unambiguous way. Since A/B testing includes measureme…

The clearest explanation I've ever seen of this method is here: http://www.evanmiller.org/rank-hotness-with-newtons-law-of-c...

Wouldn't simply excluding any http request whose user agent contains "googlebot" from the displayed count make it dramatically more accurate without needing a switch to JS-based an…

This is my November Startup Sprint[0] project, inspired by a StackExchange question[1] from this HN thread[2]. The idea is that the app creates a unique email address for you, and …

It appears to be down at the moment, but there's a site called Wrong Tomorrow ( http://wrongtomorrow.com/ ) that seems to me like a good start in this direction. Here's the blog po…

Even better review of an earlier book of Friedman's by the same reviewer: http://www.nypress.com/article-11419-flathead.html

I don't believe it's any Javascript overhead for non-IE browsers. It's just a single line of CSS: behavior: url(path/to/PIE.htc); that non-IE browsers will simply ignore.

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There is certainly a case to be made that the U.S. school system was designed to make "drones or conformists": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system Or for a more …

Care to share the name of the bank?

On http://www.sticket.net/request/ if I type "denver, co" in the first field and hit tab, the field gets blanked out. Safari 4 on OSX 10.5.