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A) It's still in alpha. B) It's not Vim. C) The questionnaire asks "which other editors do you use" and uses radio buttons.

Things in parts of NYC are extremely expensive. Doubly so if you're in an upscale club. It's not that the beer is more expensive, it's that the cost of the labor involved in servin…

Transparency and background images are great for making screenshots to show off your customized desktop. For actual daily use, they're absurd.

Expressions of our tribal nature through consumer goods. XBox/Playstation. Mac/PC. Coke/Pepsi. Ford/Chevy. People like picking sides & hate being wrong.

If you actually have the infrastructure and ops to withstand a freak DDOS, you've got a leg to stand on. Taking advantage of a freak shitstorm to steal clients is dishonest because…

If they were cheap, people would still buy them because they are incredibly pretty stones. The social aspect of diamond engagement rings would fall apart but they wouldn't go away.…

Chrome Windows 7 ends up rendering them all as boxes. The lack of whitespace prevents line breaking. The problem is that it forces the container out to 1400px wide, rather than res…

Thank you for ruining my page rendering.

Currently, Steam is only distributed for Ubuntu.

Working for free is almost always a bad idea. If you don't value your time & skills, nobody else is going to.

Looks like a simple triage to me. I don't see an issue unless they're making it publicly visible to your coworkers.

That Intel thing is nothing new - IBM was doing that on mainframes 30 years ago.

You're building up a great big chain of complicated requirements. You're quickly approaching the point where it's easier to steal the machine.

Staring at an empty bank account, a pile of bills & wondering how you're paying rent next month does a remarkable job at distracting you from the emotional aspect of getting fired …

A limited templating language forces you to behave. More importantly, it also forces other people to behave. It stops people from creating ugly hacks in the middle of templates tha…

All this article demonstrates is that PHP is more verbose than than Ruby with a good DSL. This exact same logic could be used to argue against Java. There's plenty wrong with PHP. …

Presumably by the word.

Important to note that this is the opinion section, not news. I wonder how many people are going to miss that detail?

Hell - this could have been avoided if they weren't using graphical tools or had a database that used transactions.

It's not always a bad sign, as both WoW & EVE Online have trials and are both running quite strong. In most cases, however, unless the game was launched with free trials/F2P in the…

In the MMORPG world, even handing out free trials, let alone going free to play, is often a sign that a game that's dying. It's a last-ditch effort to keep things going for a few m…

Clearly dealing with a fine, upstanding, productive member of society here.

AKA - How to spam app stores with crap.

AUG. 24, 2010

What I don't get is the states where it's at a bar. I can understand how it's weird to talk to people in some of those other places but a bar is an explicitly social environment. I…