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Of some relevance to this: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/04/farmers-make-gains-in-... tl;dr: The bill going to the Senate has several amendments now which exist to help small …

I'm a pretty big fan of Vanilla ( http://getvanilla.com/ ). It doesn't natively support threading, but I think there may be a plugin for that. It's out of the box install is very c…

Two things: 1) I don't really know that this feels like an ivory tower tone. I mean, it was grounded in legit research or anecdotal evidence, not a lot of "this is how it ought to …

So, uhm, to bring that back to the OP's question: I would go with Java, out of the two. It's as verbose as C#, but has, in my experience, much better support for pretty much everyt…

To add to the list of examples of places where you have to roll your own: At my company we needed a simple CSV reader for a file submission. That's it--just something that could re…

I think it might be worth pointing out that this is only applicable to "those seeking cabinet and other high-ranking posts." It's not like every possible White House employee is be…

The Kung Fu Panda quote there may be one of the best I've heard for situations like this. I'm not sure if that's fantastic or horrible.

This article is pretty well linkbait. Following up to the actual post by the MS team reveals Linq to SQL isn't being killed--they're just choosing Linq to Entities as their preferr…

There are at least 3 people from North Carolina. :-P

These charts would have been a lot more informative if they had gone to the trouble of stoplisting the words before analyzing. Glue words like 'the' and 'a' shouldn't comprise any …

Plastics degrade into smaller plastic particles. Assuming the land mass above them is sufficiently rough to entangle rising particles, the degraded material would still provide buo…

John Gruber of Daring Fireball ( http://daringfireball.net ) grumbled today about the closed nature of Adobe/Google/Yahoo's methodology on this one. Which means there's surely an o…

Granted, and bear in mind I'm not saying the Surface is a viable product--but the assumption in the article is that Multi-Touch is Apple's, when the tech is anyone's. That Apple ha…

This piece in a lot of ways reads like a hack piece, but I'd like to point out the author's repeated examples of Microsoft stealing from Apple. In particular: Apparently Microsoft …

Currently it only provides availability of data. There's no reason that it couldn't then provided next actions for that data--it's pretty easy to toggle a form that emails your con…