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The clustering doesn't indicate that there's a cartel, rather that the banks do not compete on price. The real compensation that the banks receive isn't from the fees. The real com…

One of the good things that will come out of the Microsoft acquisition is that this will no longer happen.

The really weird thing is that it runs BETTER on IE9 for me than on Chrome. Must be all the fishies swimming around.

Reading his LinkedIn: "lead the engineering effort" ... "designed the Windows Service Management API and lead the engineering effort behind that" This is quite typical of Microsoft…

Yes, there is a XMPP standard for AV but no one implements it -- not even Google who came up with it.

This compares all the profits generated by all Apple hardware running either iOS or OS X to that generated by Windows for Microsoft through licenses sold. A proper comparison would…

I am slowly getting tired of blog posts, startups, etc.. that imply that they are better simply because their service/website/code is better simply because they're using Ruby. You …

There is no corporate mandate to use anything. You are free to use whatever tools you want, and nearly all internal sites work fine with Chrome/Firefox.

Definitely. It's not like they're a huge company with significant market shares outside of the US, and they most definitely don't have tens of thousands of engineers with years of …

Michael Chisari is the lead developer of the Appleseed Project, an open source, distributed social networking framework. Support the project by donating here Oh dear.

I think I've just been convinced not to go to Caltech.

The base XMPP protocol plus the IM extension is pretty straightforward to implement. It's XML, so you don't have to write your own parsers, which get extremely complex and buggy, e…

1 person. There are hundreds of millions of people using Hotmail and Messenger, especially in emerging markets.

I have never seen anyone try to hide their phone. I've seen people bring in and use their MBPs at work, some of them were even running Windows. No one cares.

College is totally worthless. Everyone is the very smart entrepreneurial type like we all of course are, and already posses the vast majority of skills that they'll ever need in li…

I too wish Apple would disregard the core of its business plan and introduce a niche product that few would buy.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned college and education in the context of signaling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) A degree from a Tier-1 school and hig…

There's no answer to the "why" in the article beyond celebrity mentions and saying that businesses will pay. A valuation of $5 billion would mean about $200 per user at the 25 mill…

Visual Studio + viemu for vi keybindings. The sum of the two is far greater.

Since did lack of support stop anyone from finding a way to run it?

I remember fiddling around with PHPs recursion and having it get very bad very quickly. Why use lambdas and recursion with PHP when there's tons of languages that do it better?

I have been in a situation where this was the case: myself and another guy were the devs, and the non-programmer was the public face of the company: he did customer service, market…

The whole point of Safebank seems to be to have it be safe. How safe a is a week-old bank started by some guy with a blog who doesn't know the difference between retail and investm…

And what subjects would those be?

Only 7 bad signs? What about the work environment? Working in a cube farm with the cheapest kind of free coffee is a lot worse than working for a company that has free Starbucks/dr…