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"every self-respecting geek has one" I realize Jeff's just being...poetic, but really it's just an excuse to buy toys. Spend your money on what makes you happy. If more gadgets, or…

Heard many similar stories about extreme home makeover where property taxes would climb by 3-5x after the renovation, forcing people to foreclose. I'm under the impression that the…

"feeling great" != healthy; "not fat" != healthy A calorie isn't a calorie. The impact that 100 calories of vodka has on your body vs, say, 100 calories of Kale is significant. The…

With their supposed interest in expanded outside of China, does anyone know if they are hiring? To me it is, by far, the most interesting startup right now.

I strongly disagree with it, but it's been stated a few times that it's ok to use downvote if you disagree (1). This is certainly not a new thing around here... https://news.ycombi…

I can't be the only one who'd take a pay cut, move to a developing region in exchange for putting my programming skills towards a greater social good? I'd hope it would be easy to …

21 character reset was generated via 3 separate functions each generating 7 characters each. 2 of these were old and weak, resulting in a URL that could be brute forced. Once disco…

As a bad but persistent cook, I'm convinced eating healthy is generally cheaper. A lot of the healthier food I eat is cheap: legumes, [sweet] potatoes and other root vegetables, br…

Possibly pedantic, but this can't be described as reverse-engineered.

Let's just say I wouldn't have wanted to be a tonsil in the 80s living in Canada. I assume it wasn't Canada-specific though, anyone confirm?

A nice piece which stands in stark contrast to the alarmist and shallow FUD that so often accompanies this topic. It's amazing how little we know about nutrition and biology. A lot…

Thanks for the explanation. Hopefully we can agree that it still puts the US in a precarious public spotlight...not sure that the public will make as detailed a distinction as appe…

Does the US risk being seen as a dog with a loud bark but no bite here? If you're going to make pronouncements that hacking will be considered an act of war (1), don't you kinda pa…

Depending on what side of Hanlon's razor you fall, the only conclusion I get from this is that they are either incompetent or dishonest. I have a very hard time believing that this…

Would be nice to have the ability to set up some type of alert/notification.

I didn't realize NuGet let you do remote path import. Nor that it was around in 2004. Nor that it's part of the C# language spec. Goroutine + Channels are vastly different than the…

it's pretty common..it leverages github pages (1) which itself is powered by jekyll (2) (1) http://pages.github.com/ (2) http://jekyllrb.com/

Except for the goroutine and channel, and the type system, and the package system.