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How is Airbnb a tech company?

I find it strange that they use the same language in all the systems. One could argue that there is a possibility of a fault in the language specification.

Not to say anything about the language itself...

> I find the behavior of most bikers in traffic to be dangerous, obnoxious and rude. And I find the behaviour of most drivers to be potentially fatally dangerous to me as a cyclist…

Is it only South Asians that can possibly help, or is it just anybody?

Wow, a lot of envious people in this thread.

If you've never been fat, you don't know how it feels to be fat (duh...). I'm "only" 240lbs/6ft, and it simply doesn't feel good. Every step you take is heavier, you can't move aro…

Which kind?

Funny how I on the other hand think that it just started sucking lately. I kinda liked Gnome 2, Unity just felt weird and awkward.

Btw, in a world where energy is supposedly scarce, how do people justify using languages (Python, Ruby, I'm looking at you) that are an order or two magnitudes slower than they nee…

Oh ffs did they have to copy all the retarded features of C's syntax into JS?

tl;dr def foo(x): ... stuff ... ... more stuff ... should be synonymous with foo = lambda(x): ... stuff ... ... more stuff ... but isn't, because guidos think that they know better…

Chrome is all the evidence one needs that the big G isn't adhering to it's "don't be evil" rule.

Your cache links?

> Ubuntu applications This is something I've never understood. People always point out the Microsoft mono{poly,culture}, but somehow when Ubuntu does it, it's all good.

If driving faster is safer, your vehicle is overengineered.

What do you mean by "this type of post"?

> ();}})()(); And people complain that Lisp is hard to read )))

For all practical purposes, PageRank is dependency of adsense, and if it didn't work, there would be no adsense.

i find it interesting that whenever something that involves fatalities happens, the first reaction of people is to propose to ban it, while they continue to drive their suvs to mcd…

Sadly, this isn't seen as the wake up call it should be, but as a joke.

Btw, downvoting just reaffirms my judgement about your appletardness.

Ugh, anyone know of something along the lines Apple-haters -mailing list or something? I need a place where I can be reasonably sure that people who I am talking with aren't macfag…