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I've never gotten this argument. I mean, I have totally normal (nearly 20/20, but not quite... thanks to aging) vision, yet I can see the blurred edges of diagonal and rounded imag…

"after rolling out our optimizations, we saw our error rates (ie. the proportion of slow or timed out queries) drop by up to 400%" There is some good shared knowledge in the post (…

Nice city, but with 114% of the population being smokers... I love Europe, but for being so developed, it's amazing how many places there people still think smoking is 'cool,' and …

it's not that bad. but I find the non-flat giant diamond icon rather ironic. :)

As an ex-Ruby cum Node.js lover recently converted to Go... Programming in Go, once it clicks, really does feel relaxing and productive. If you're a decent Node.js programmer, it's…

US uses US standard measures, not imperial.

I thought 95% of the syntax was a dramatic improvement over straight obj-c, which I actually don't mind at all. I admit, the one time I paused was when I saw the trailing return ty…

Most of the comments here are way off base, focusing on the relative worth of the objective-c language, rather than the value of Eero for developers who have no choice but to use o…

personally, I've had great luck with namecheap and host all my domains there, then forward to ec2, linode, and rackspace as needed. great means simple and they haven't ever tried t…

I'm on the hatin' side actually. Locked down privacy to the max, only to find it all re-opened again when FB changed their privacy options. That happened 3 times. Those shenanigans…

Most comments here are dead on: 1.) Youtube, Twitter, Facebook... blocked 2.) Google... rerouted to HK and still censored 3.) Gmail... increasingly unreliable 4.) Chinese mostly do…

I agree that the context switching costs are quite high, reducing the time actually spent on coding. It might be better to focus on one language/framework for five straight weeks, …

yep, no luck. i have a good friend just finishing up his phd in a the field and working on applications for similar technology for european automakers.

fascinating. I'd love a code to try this out if still possible.