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Arcadia Power | Senior Rails Engineer, Front End Engineer | Washington, DC | Full-Time | On-site or Remote Arcadia Power is a fast-growing technology company that is revolutionizin…

The title of the piece is actually "Short Trip" as seenin the title tag and the end of the experience. It seems the HN submitter chose "simulator."

We're on Rails 4 now for the general "Chorus" codebase (but you're right, we include a number of varied apps under the same umbrella when talking about our platform)

Hey Connor, awesome work. You would have saved us a lot of work had you created this a year ago ;)

Disclosure: I live with a benefits broker. I'm interested in your friend's story. At 23, male, in VA I had absolutely no trouble buying an individual policy. I have some health iss…

This is a smart move by Facebook. I'm almost surprised to see them acknowledge in the initial announcement that they'll retain the ability for Instagram to interact with other soci…

The article does have a quote using 'for.' '”They caught him and he was secretly arrested and now works for the FBI,” a unnamed source said to be close to Sabu told FoxNews.com.' C…

Drawing a star causes the video to appear.

The Double Fine Kickstarter pitch video does a pretty good job of explaining why it can't fund an Adventure game, primarily because publishers generally won't fund anything that is…

While it would be nice to have a toggle that enables output of HTML5's new semantic tags, I don't believe that it should be the default. Internet Explorer 6-8 require a JavaScript …

1 point by jakelear 0 minutes ago | link | parent | edit | delete Andrew, I work for Sapient based out of Arlington. I know that we were recently looking for a web developer with p…

I can definitely understand how the masses would side with Mojang on this one. Big media corp vs small indie self-made studio, etc. However, not knowing all that much about "Scroll…

The author and the publisher are primary stakeholders in the success of the book, not Jobs.

Tens of thousands of non-programmers. A few minutes spent in the livestream chat feed was enough to drive a sane man to madness. 50% of comments were asking if the stream was minec…

An interesting, albeit not that valuable, challenge. It's a fun little question, but it's not even valuable as a black hat exercise. It's just a non-sensical hypothetical.

I totally agree. When recently searching for jobs, I found so much value in being able to investigate the company and the opportunity. However, I can understand the recruiter point…

I think he says clout, as in influence.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Carmack recently (here's the photo proof: http://jacoblear.com/carmack.jpg ) and was able to listen to him talk casually, as opposed to in a…

It's probably safe to say that the most downloaded is also the most cached.