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The difference between 'motion sickness' (which I don't suffer from) and 'simulation sickness'[1] (which I do). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness#Simulation_sick...

I think it's a rather silly question. When you receive an invitation to dinner, is it polite to save your host money by leaving before dessert? No. By default it will be rude and i…

Probably depends on your application. You may also see slower construction time if you are creating thousands of objects. I think which to use depends on whether you believe privat…

That's called a "privileged method". The advantage of those is that they can access any private variables from the constructor, and they keep those variables in scope for their lif…

In my personal experience, according to pingdom my Heroku app is significantly less reliable than my plain EC2 apps: https://twitter.com/#!/jamiemill/status/154566469479444480/p...…

Instead of trying to make the native copy/paste work, can anyone think of a way to set up key bindings in OSX to mimic copy/paste but store the text in /tmp/mypasteboard or somethi…

That $100k would go a lot further in the boy's hands than the filmmakers'. Do the backers realise which they are donating to?

George Orwell's five rules of effective writing come to mind: http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/george-orwells-5-rules-for-... And people so often substitute longer words, (e.g. 'my…

Hi jrmg, thanks for the great feedback. I initially wanted Wallboardr to be a fairly free-form board that wasn't specific to any industry, but as it developed I thought that approa…

Oh, thanks for the offer! That's a difficult decision, I was hoping to capitalise on it commercially soon as a subscription service. But very interesting to hear that there would b…

You're absolutely right. Only 2.7% sign-up rate from this thread and I'm sure Google account login would have made a big difference.

Thanks! Well customising columns is the obvious next step and is on the top of the list, so that won't be far away. To be fair they also have comments and todo lists per card, like…

Damn this is pretty similar to the direction my app Wallboardr is taking, except status columns aren't customisable yet. Any thoughts on comparison folks? http://wallboardr.com