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I agree that this is dumb of IFTTT. But I am all in favor of a 'recipe' that consists of "startup does dumb stuff=>Maciej writes a hilarious takedown=>I LOL so hard people ask me w…

First off -- I'm so glad the OP is okay now. A couple of things in your story seem weird to me, though. Did they really foreclose on your rental house that fast? There were so many…

I'd search it for new words to add to Wordnik. :-)

aw, thank you!

You can get Wordnet through the Wordnik API too ... as well as from the American Heritage Dictionary, The Century Dictionary, Wiktionary, and the GNU version of the Collaborative I…

Findings from betaworks did something similar, and I really liked that service. They didn't get any traction, though. :-( Are you going to have an API? Because that would be sweet.…

EVERY word is a "made-up word". Some words were just made up longer ago than others. If you held everyone to this criteria you would severely impoverish language.

It's not that wages would necessarily go up without collusion, it's that the companies would become significantly less productive. If you can keep your top people from being poache…

Actually, the lack of women in cartooning/comics is a topic that has been written about quite often, here's an example: http://comicsalliance.com/superhero-comics-women-sexism/ The…

I don't think you have been paying attention, or maybe you are hanging out in the wrong places. Have you read "Lean In"? There are plenty of women out there who don't expect their …

Uh, no. The OP was trying to imply that women are naturally worse at the competitions cited, and I pointed out that women in the age demographic that wins those competitions (usual…

And this couldn't be in part because women have less free time across the board, about five hours less?[1] Hard to get to tournament quality if you don't get as much time to practi…

It's okay to be privately surprised, as long as you think about WHY you're surprised (e.g. "girls don't code" vs. "there aren't as many women coders as you might expect given the #…

And of course the handy Time Traveler's Poster from Topatoco ...

Only if your wife doesn't have paying work ...

what does "her writing style is masculine" even MEAN?

Wow. Feeling pretty good about my HS Pascal class (yeah, I'm old, so what) now. I was only ignored and dismissed, not harassed and told to make sandwiches (!). The OP's daughter so…

I don't agree that tablets are terrible for e-reading. I love reading on my iPad, and hate my e-ink reader. The page refresh times are terrible in e-ink, they really slow me down a…

Sorry, I only know what would work on me (and my friends). Didn't think I was that much of an outlier ...

would something that's 100% OSS be smarter for people just getting started? Swagger jumps to mind. :-) https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-core/wiki/Downloads (Node inspector recent…

Maybe you should try talking to technically-inclined women? We do exist and I would probably pepper you with tons of questions about what you do if we met at a party. (Of course, I…

I'm pretty sure that you could do that, the only problem is that it would accelerate the sun going nova and the eventual engulfing of Earth ... It's all a matter of priorities. :-)…

Wow, all I can say is that it is wonderful to read a "can you do a startup and be a parent?" article that is not about MOMS. (Although since the original post didn't mention anythi…

The ESL-voice was part of the charm. It adds a note of authenticity. :-)

I generally don't mind being hugged (given adequate cleanliness of the hugger and absence of anything that could be considered creepy, e.g. lingering groin contact) but I prefer th…