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"San Francisco is fun, dont get me wrong. Compared to New York, its boring. I have trouble even thinking about living in an apartment in Mountain View, Cupertino or Palo Alto. Thos…

One of the more irritating slideshows I've ever used. I don't like having to click "show more" after I've read a half paragraph of text.

I'm getting a bit sick of seeing people think GitHub is the best thing evar. I've worked with Chris Wanstrath. We hired him to get us going porting Furl from Java to Ruby on Rails.…

I go out of my way to avoid working with anyone who refers to himself as a rockstar/ninja. They're just utter pains in the ass to work with. No sense of professionalism.

More of a plotter than a printer, really. Well, it could be, with the correct software.

Rolling up the blanket at the end of the bed is only going to allow the mites in the blanket to live. It'd be better to hang up your blanket during the day so it can dry out.

I consider this to be one of the best books on programming ever written. If you really want to know C, read this book.

This displays shocking ignorance of how DNS works. One flat namespace? Your DNS infrastructure is going to resemble Google. And it'll never scale as well as it does today.

I just set up a standing workstation for drawing, electronics work, and (some) coding. I wrote an extensive post about it, including what equipment I used and why I made the choice…

Always, for any Mac with an LCD. It's saved my butt more than once. I believe it's the only extended warranty that Consumer Reports says is worth getting.

Kind of an interesting article. I'm not sure if I'd state it quite the way he has. The best way I've ever seen it stated is: "test what you don't fully understand". Test what you b…

The entire tone of the story turned me off. Nothing can excuse the manager's behavior. If you are a manager, you're held to a higher standard. But as an employee, if you're resigni…

s/hundred/thousand/

Light on the santorum, please.