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it's a pretty safe bet that a former Amazon employee has a stronger grasp on why Amazon's not made money with this than does some random dude on the web.

The LA taxi laws are insane too. A lot of LA actually consists of semi-independent sub-cities like Hollywood and Beverly Hills. They were once suburbs but are now part of LA the ci…

am I correctly reading the rewards? it looks as if no reward at all includes the actual new hardware controller he wants to create. doesn't make a whole lot of sense that way.

really sorry to hear this. if somebody puts together some kind of fundraising thing to help him out, I'll gladly kick in.

Nobody cares why your site is down, and for most sites 99% of your users will have no clue what is meant by "This site is hosted by Heroku". What you say is true for a certain type…

response from the OP: "Thanks, yes, but when the platform itself fails it seems that doesn’t always work. Hence my suggestion they temporarily change the default error message."

LOL

Calendar is worthless. Maps you have a point. Android is a joke.

it's not going to happen for a while. this web site won't make it happen. the detailed reasons start here: http://johnaugust.com/2012/why-you-cant-get-hbo-go-by-itself the short ve…

preach

I loved this part: "What iOS could take from BlackBerry" iOS already took BlackBerry's entire market. Isn't it kind of cruel to be looking for even more things to take?

re this: http://tortillasinbed.tumblr.com/post/24175048206/i-up-vote-everything please note the absence of an "and you should too." telling people how they should use social media …

the sheer number of possible answers is overwhelming, but pretty much everything Google does fails, except for search and email. (I can't be the only one who's afraid to find out w…

"Why are you going back onto a diet that you clearly can't sustain?" Who are you kidding? I stayed on it for a year and a half and then got bored. It wasn't a struggle, I just stop…

I think that's fair. I think plenty of people would describe a dramatic change in diet as an intense thing, and I certainly don't think there's any harm in intensity, as long as it…

Sure. Basically just this guy's work: http://www.drfuhrman.com/ I eat beans, fruit, and vegetables, and that's basically it. No starchy vegetables (i.e., potatoes, squash), and occ…

I have to disagree with this part: "do it with drive and intensity or don't expect results" I made a pretty radical change in my diet and dropped 82 pounds. I think the first 70 or…

I wrote about it on my blog a couple years ago too. I'm just glad some voice of reason finally surfaced on here. Besides the cargo-cult idiocy of it, the other thing I don't like i…

"I do believe that the plethora of instant stimulations is having a major impact on our cognitive processes. Some good, some bad. The bad I see is that it seems that people have a …

I think you're absolutely right. I'm sorry to say it, but I also believe that all the comments to the contrary are just people who haven't bothered to learn anything about the subj…

"don't use your employer's computer off-hours when working on your own projects" California law protects individual side projects extremely well. I am not a lawyer, I could be wron…

There's a great infographic that pits human lifespans against this old idea - that investing in the stock market is always a good idea because it goes up in the long run. There wer…

Jesus, dude, why not just talk to OP instead? Any lawyer will tell you that if you can resolve your differences peacefully out of court, you should. This seems to be some kind of h…

Do you really think the OP had SEO as a priority? Likewise I disagree with the idea that these two projects share the same space. A Java ORM and a Rails metaframework for avoiding …

hey man, re: "If you look at Rails itself (it's great Ruby code, I highly recommend really reading it)" I've worked with a member of Rails core, and frequent committers. I've spoke…