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The number of people using messaging apps (not sms) daily has skyrocketed in the last couple years, has it not? The shift is probably less recognizable because it's not a shift to …

Is there a way for me to play maniac mansion legally on a modern computer?

If you think that's bad, you should see their public facing page.

I use ctrl+c. It's easy to hit than esc, and it's built in, so it always works, even on servers i haven't set my config for, etc.

You keep on using that acronym. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Sad that the user is being lost in these discussions. I get that people are worried about a slippery slope and boundaries, but this is clearly a better user experience for someone …

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you left out the step where a judge reviews the request to make sure it's not overly broad or based on flimsy reasoning. Aside from that I'd say it's a…

I think it's also worth noting that the intended audience of these slides wasn't the general public/press. It's possible the purpose of using wording like "directly from the server…

What scares me is that you know they're working on doing precisely this, and eventually they will probably be successful.

I don't think modifying already self-replicating seeds should give you a right to dictate what happens with subsequent generations of those seeds. Any such agreements should be ren…

How did this status quo come about to begin with? Was it through gender discriminatory practices? Is it possible (I'm just asking here) that the gender "imbalance" is the equilibri…

Great comment. Am I the only person waiting for someone to provide the regular expression intimated at above?

At this point, I'm just waiting for people to start releasing games centered around the DCPU-16 before Notch even releases his.

Typical Google. Treating what should be platforms like products and treating what should be products like platforms.

I realize the most satisfying way to contribute to open source software is to discover a project you're interested in and work with already, and then contribute back to it. Unfortu…

Meh. I'm sure when this is all over, AirBnb will have put some measures in place to add additional security (from a pr perspective at least). Really, nothing short of legitimate in…

I had a similar reaction to this post. Surprised that she depicted the issue being escalated all the way up to the cofounder as somehow a reduction in customer service. Not that th…

Inspired by http://zachholman.com/posts/why-github-hacks-on-side-projects/ Nodebot is written around a plugin architecture that makes it easy for anyone to roll their own irc bot a…

Find a project you're actually interested in (not just interested in the notoriety of being a part of). The ide/environment kind of depends on the project and the language/assets t…

Why _i_ wouldn't use Symfony for a new project: http://lithify.me

This is actually a faith claim In and of itself. Your basically saying you don't believe there is a God who desires (or worse, requires) anything from you. Otherwise it would be in…