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It's the name of James Bond's signature martini. The LLC's name, Q Branch, refers to the R&D wing of MI6.

I have a question for our Android-using brethren who've had the opportunity to play with Now. I've read a bit about it over the past few weeks, and I've been excited about a port t…

Anywhere near the city? I'd be happy to chat over coffee.

The subject is an implied first person. (i.e., "I" or "we.") I see this kind of omission as a way for cowards to avoid explicitly standing behind their request, both to diminish th…

Wow. This was unnecessarily hostile. Though I agree that the tagline's a little confusing, the first two bullet points ("Never ask for a friend's Wi-Fi password again" and "Sync pa…

Minutes are used for call forwarding and outgoing calls, yes. :) Thanks for the question. We're adding it to our FAQ shortly.

(Frank here, one of the co-founders of CallingVault.) 'Privacy' in the context of our service means two things, but in the comparison to GV, it really means that we'll never scrape…

Frank here – one of the co-founders of CallingVault. Here's how we look at it: We wanted to charge the lowest price possible for a CallingVault line, so we made text and minute pur…

I think I remember what you're talking about (pretty sure it was just called Bow and Arrow) and I think this is it: http://www.download-central.ws/Win16/Games/B/Bow-and-Arrow/

Further confusing the issue: inflammable means exactly the same thing as flammable.

For those interested in learning about the subject, here's a good place to start (in order): Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics http://books.google.com/books?id=B…

He's using the jQuery Waypoints plugin to fire events when a visitor scrolls to specified points on the page. Probably that.

A UX guy's perspective, now that I've used the app a little: * The "I want to explore..." box doesn't really scream SEARCH BOX at me. My first instinct was that it was a kind of "I…

Sweet app. Downloaded and ready to use tomorrow in NYC. One thing: kerning. The 'A' in the wordmark is in no-man's land! T and G are friendly letters, and I'm sure they'd be more t…

As much as I truly, truly loathe criminals of any sort, lionizing vigilantism, especially when the self-appointed avenger threatens violence, is misguided at best and dangerous (re…

This app isn't meant to be used in the subway – it's meant to used before you go down into the station. All the lines supported in the app have signs in their stations with the sam…