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I think the best advice I ever got from my parents about weddings is that you have to have really good food. Nobody hardly remembers anything else, even the bride's dress, but if y…

It's articles like these and the responses they engender that I'm very glad I grew up working class, and lived my 20's punk rock. I can appreciate the finer things in life, but I'v…

I've had similar experiences. Git has great potential, but the tools seem very immature, and basic things I took for granted with Subversion are huge pita's with Git. And it seems …

Game developers hate Zynga for the same reason that real comedians hate Dane Cook: Uninspired, unoriginal (borderline theft), and a dilution of the craft. Sure, you could chalk it …

Sort by Registered Users. You don't even need the Chinese language site (QZone). Habbo + MySpace + Bebo + Orkut + Friendster + Hi5 = 679 million. Assuming 50% cross-over (which is …

Tons of working features, a more well-defined roadmap, (much) more experience, and it's way easier to install (LAMP vs Rails). Also, Appleseed is a full social platform, that allow…

If it's such a useless metric, why is it always brought up as a clear example of Facebook's unmovable dominance?

Let's assume there's total overlap, meaning everyone who has a non-FB account also has a FB account. Now let's assume all of those smaller, but substantially sized, networks starte…

The combined size of social networks that aren't Facebook is over 1.5 billion people, probably more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websi... Facebook has th…

Better ability to categorize friends and have targeted "feeds" would help mitigate this.

Appleseed is the farthest along: http://opensource.appleseedproject.org

Yeah, I think it's definitely different in the U.S. than Germany, regarding Facebook's hegemony. Hardly anybody uses anything else here.

How do you send file attach attachments?

I think a comparison to an oil rig is wishful thinking, to say the least. You have a basically clear and proven business model that's existed for 100 years, based on selling a tang…

Also, can we stop to consider the fact that a company that is worth billions of dollars can only barely eke out a profit, despite having access to the personal lives of 500 million…

I think you're underestimating Facebook's social importance. Sure, your friends won't hate you, it won't be the end of the world, but there is a palpable sense of disconnect. And t…

Because you can leave Google. You may not want to, and they do a great job of having features nobody else has, but if they piss you off enough, there's plenty of email providers. F…

Oh yeah, it's totally like being violently threatened and abused by terrorists. That's a perfectly reasonable analogy. Seriously, when you've been programming long enough, you real…

Yes, but in true PHP fashion they're just slightly ugly. :) namespace my\name; $c = new \my\name\MyClass;

I've noticed that it's in vogue to bash PHP, but frankly, with the current state of the language, along with its frameworks and libraries, there's no better time to work with PHP. …

Unless you're being more specific than I think you are, PHP5 has basic support for method chaining, I use it all the time.

I've been using PHP professionally since it was called PHP/FI, and while it's a terribly designed language, I've longed stopped hating it. I know all of it's quirks, and I know all…

There is a ton of scholarly work on the effects of unequal funding on public education. Google Scholar is a good place to start: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=unequal+funding…

That's an interesting case, but it's far from representative of the system as a whole. The best you can do in that situation is use that information to criticize that specific scho…