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> As a contrast, none of the Top 10 most valuable Y Combinator companies use Java; largely considered the battle tested enterprise language. I’m not sure what this is based on, but…

> Hoping to highlight the elusive order in the distribution of the primes, he and his student Ge Zhang had modeled them as a one-dimensional sequence of particles — essentially, li…

> There was a substantially greater increase in bicycle commuting in the bike-share cities, yet the total number of injuries decreased in bike-share (but not control) cities, again…

He means "should equal or exceed": > If you are doing better than the 40% rule, that’s awesome.

You can click the time of each comment to get a permalink: http://workingwithwords.blogspot.com/2004/08/gee-i-wonder-if... Wikipedia articles have the same functionality: http://en…

A number of Bitcoin services have gone under after being hacked. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/history-of...

National Geographic picked up on it as well: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/why-have-...

Is there an advantage to method swizzling instead of just subclassing UIApplication?

Does anyone know why stash names are so ugly? I've always found typing "git stash apply stash@{3}" to be pretty painful (not to mention redundant).

The number of "married" teens is inflated by people jokingly reporting themselves as married to their friends.

The site says it uses Bluetooth and attaches to a standard deadbolt (that panel is presumably only on the inside of the door).

Quest bars are the best I've found: http://www.questproteinbar.com/

> Michigan Central Station stopped serving trains in 1988 with multiple plans to redevelop the building falling through since. The Morouns have owned the building since 2001. FTA

> Facebook also failed to implement some sort of craigslist, which is something that would really serve a big purpose for people in general (advertise for any sort of stuff, jobs, …

That's good for most cases, but I don't think it works for groups of prime cardinality. In addition, the problem often allows each participant to have a different value function (e…

Xdrive was around: http://web.archive.org/web/20001017113816/http://www.xdrive....

If you find yourself in a similar predicament next year, SF Beer Week has a searchable schedule that will get you pretty close: http://www.sfbeerweek.org/schedule/#q=pliny

"Rendering and the Javascript engine are provided by iOS through UIWebView." - https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/faq

> Apple has transitioned from a small company with a narrow focus to a really big company with a much broader focus... Amazon, it seems, is more true to their brand. Exactly. Amazo…

He encountered problems typing at a reasonable speed, saving a Word document, videoconferencing, and opening the mail client. They sound like issues that can be corrected with a so…

While the filesystem is not directly accessible by either users or apps for security reasons, it is possible for apps to communicate and/or exchange files. Your app can register th…

It takes two hands to hold a device and a stylus.

Does anyone else find the article title grating? How does one leap into the high end of a pool? Product videos are a pretty significant upgrade, though.

There have been academic papers inspired by the Wikipedia gender gap, but this isn't one of them. This study examines differences among different Wikipedia localizations and only m…