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> Will governments around the world begin to make their currency deflationary in order to make it attractive? rofl If you want people to use currency more, you make it inflate fast…

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal? Cringeworthy? Edit: Or Planet Money?

> Static Site Generators are a new, hybrid approach to web development It's like Movable Type never existed.

> Basic web server log analysis stopped being mainstream in the early 2000s, and I see no reason to bring it back. I still use it, and I find many discrepancies between the server …

> and no competition is allowed in that space. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ios/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrome-web-browser-by-google... http://www.opera.com/mobil…

> There is no Constitutional right for gays to marry. There is no Constitutional right for anyone to marry. Full stop. There is a Constitutional right for equal protection under th…

They aren't like a doorknob. I had to replace an interior door handle on a '99 Miata (interior is far easier than an exterior; exterior means pulling the door skin off for access a…

The fact that RSS appears to be dying is the best proof I have ever seen that demonstrates a secret cabal of lizard-people who control the world. How did it go from being so pervas…

> Solid is modular and extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols. That's great! A good place to start would be here -- https://validator.…

Ballmer in a 2007 interview with USA Today: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a…

> Display nicknames of gym pokemon That's rife for abuse. It would require a "reporting" function; a moderation team; resolution practices; human intervention; a "scoring" system t…

Could you expand on this? > LDAP management on non-Windows systems is like stepping back 30 years. How so? And managing which components -- the directory server or the clients? > t…

If the author got hit by a bus, there's no one else around to maintain it. Generally refers to "how many people can continue to develop/support this software if original maintainer…

Another problem in "dog intelligence" is that a lot of it is misconstrued with obedience. Sure, dog A and dog B both understood the command you issued; and the one that gets labell…

> in reality can be very fragile and needs to be rolled out all or nothing. What makes you say that? That certainly isn't my experience with Shibboleth. We deployed our IDP in 2006…

What is wrong with spaces in URLs?

Why?

Re: The point of G+. Because one day, you're going to type into Google's Search engine "what's for dinner?" And it is going to tell you. How? Because it knows who your wife is, and…

If you're using a SAML Identity Provider to login to your Google Apps environment, then, yes, it should work with your current IdP.

If you don't have a news feed, how would a reader know to check for new posts? If you expect readers to check your site daily, that doesn't scale very well. I follow 200+ blogs; I …

Yes, RSS 2.0 has a bunch of problems. That is why this -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287 -- was developed. IETF standards have a history of longevity, and I suspect this format wi…

The /.well-known/ stuff always throws me for a loop. Why not use DNS for service discovery? Has worked well for SMTP for a very long time.

I know 3d charts are nifty, but a 2d chart would have been more legible -- http://graphjam.com/2008/11/13/song-chart-memes-perception-o... .