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The online programmer testing site mentioned in that story ( http://codility.com ) is pretty slick.

I've thought of a use for Cpedia: generating Mahalo pages.

One unexpected effect of Cpedia aggregating articles about things to build pages is that the page for the software I write and sell contains both it's description and links to wher…

How about printing up a sticker that says "Support Act: Michael Bolton" and putting it on offending events

Try it in Firefox and then in Chrome - really shows the JS speed advantages of Google's browser (at least for this).

worked for cuil

This is the thing about SO that really works. You almost always get a good answer within hours of asking any programming question (that's been my experience anyway).

I find the similarity between the style of jargon in that job posting and the jargon used by the Church of Scientology ('sea-org', 'OT', 'out-ethics' etc.) a little creepy.

Surely the flabbergasting thing is not whether this proves or disproves GW but that scientists are allowed to flat-out refuse to release the raw data they used to generate results.…

I don't think Perl lost "It", but it did lose the Web. There's tons of Unix back-end glue written in Perl, and I imagine tons still being written right now, but as a language for w…