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Could please someone give a layman's explanation for this bombshell? > Assume I hide a ball in a cabinet with a million drawers. How many drawers do you have to open to find the ba…

Doesn't Google Analytics also phone home? Google's tracking is far more widespread than Facebook's if that's the case.

> "I mean, I literally don't think there's anything to be learned from other people's stuff." That is exactly what happened with Color, which Nguyen never even bothered to test. "I…

PG, this is only tangentially related, but I've noticed you quite often use phrases like "starting a startup". Considering you're an excellent writer, I figured you must have a rea…

For those of us hacking in languages with significant whitespace, I made a simple plugin for treating indent levels as text objects. It's not nearly as cool as Easymotion or Surrou…

If someone had told me his work had been done by a devoted team of a dozen people, I'd still be tremendously impressed that only twelve people managed to accomplish so much. The fa…

> But I think it’s curious that Facebook has reacted so strongly to Google+: for such a small network (relatively) they seem quite afraid of it, going to the point of trying to mat…

> Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product That's a wonderful way of putting it. Steve Jobs was inspirationally, infectiously pass…

Ouch! Awesome apps like this are totally humbling. Congratulations, guys. If you're still following this thread, amasad and max99x, I have a simple question: how many hours did you…

What's the story behind the name? Also, do you think the "Built with" blurb at the bottom adds value to the site? I know I think it's cool when I see stuff like that, but I can't i…

I've shied away from Clojure because I have no Java experience. However, I really love Lisp, and I'd love to get some practical experience with it. Has anyone used Clojure as their…

For those too lazy to click through to the article, the author says that neither pt nor px are relative units, and then drops a bewildering bomb: "I’m saying is when you need an ab…

I turned off Chrome's prediction service once I found myself relying upon it—it was becoming difficult for me to perform searches on DuckDuckGo without it! Google was making my min…

With Windows 8, Microsoft is ushering in native JavaScript apps. It's probably in their best interest to keep developers firmly in the JavaScript camp—the more JavaScript developer…

You're right—employers are being lazy. It's safe for people in HR to mindlessly prefer mediocre Candidate A with a degree over stellar Candidate B without one, so instead of actual…

Considering the tone of these letters (especially the last one—wow!), it's a bit difficult to summon empathy with their authors. And I think that's unfortunate, because they have a…

That's a very attractive site, and I really find the icons attractive, too (though I imagine they'll be unhelpful for people with difficulty discerning colors). I thought I'd let y…

I love and use CoffeeScript because it removes almost all of JavaScript's cruft, making the true purpose of the code much clearer. Ultimately, removing cruft is all CoffeeScript do…

I definitely understand where you are coming from (and I didn't downvote you), but I have to disagree. That employee (we'll call her Sarah) isn't being paid to see how a startup is…

I really love visualized algorithms like this. To less-than-brilliant people like me, it's often the only intuitive way to understand how an algorithm works.

I envy your understanding—I'm struggling to figure out what that line is supposed to do. Is he switching to a different branch, squashing all of its commits into one, and then merg…

In fact, if you're solving "NASA problems", being the first solver even has some potentially crippling disadvantages—nimble competitors can learn from your public mistakes and buil…

I haven't a clue why this is being downvoted, unless the point you are making is too obvious. Perhaps the parent was only describing startups that neither give employees equity nor…

Thank you for mentioning this—I had no idea it existed! Do you use lazy enumerables in your projects? I can think of a few fun uses (such using them as creative replacements for lo…

Indeed, but that's what the grandparent is saying—you need to bring your own language to the party.