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If you gave birth, 16 weeks. If you didn't, 8. Now there is an equal metric regardless of the sex. Happy?

my boss is in that email thread. I was talking to him last week because he was mentioned heavily in the Dive into HTML5 guide. He was talking about the real first WWW conference in…

There's a difference between a 4 color interface and a 4 hue interface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2.1.png

Buttons didn't have gradients or 3D effects or often even colors for nearly 10-15+ years on Macs and PCs and people were able to use them just fine. The did often have highlights a…

Designmodo and the Flat-UI is pretty mediocre to poor at contrast. I forked the project and ended up ripping out a lot of the components which were low contrast and modifying the p…

Learn to embrace writing maven plugins. I've written a few maven plugins that are just jython wrappers that import a few flags into the jython script (like the build directory) and…

Then go adopt some.

Signs that you have a general pattern of curiosity and playfulness could also likely include a molecular biologist with a picture of Lil Jon on her wall. Following a general patter…

Population taboo isn't the problem. The problem is pleading and attempting to dictate to a person what they should and shouldn't do with their personal life. Considering the USA ha…

> In regards to having 5 kids yourself - please reconsider this. If you do want a large family, rather consider adopting a few to round out your natural child birth. Society could …

That's some amazing performance out of the JVM.

I have a Hickok 580-A Tube Tester that I've been having a hell of a time trying to get calibrated correctly. Someday I'll figure it out (it doesn't help they used factory tubes for…

UUID v4 is, in fact, random and "alphanumeric" in the sense that it's hex. That being said, I have a few other issues with their wording as well. They should just say "we have a cu…

The tenderloin is 72,000 sq/mi.

The Geary and California lines have upwards of 80,000 riders a day. It's absolutely insane. There's a lot of plans for Geary BRT, but really it seems like they should have done som…

Personally, even though I have a BS in Physics, have done research for 4 years, and develop software exclusively with astrophysics experiments at a physics lab (I'm even on the mos…

Prior art for this predates the World Wide Web. The physics arxiv and SPIRES database were doing this in the 80s.

> And Comcast was actually cheaper. At least for the first 6/12 months. Then you get to haggle and threaten disconnection for a day, then you are good for another 6/12 months.

The oil change thing was much easier when I had a garage/driveway/flat street and I had a lifted jeep cherokee (which broke a lot, but was easy as hell to fix and change oil). With…

The joke, while violating the terms of the python convention, was PG-13 at best. It was the equivalent of a "that's what she said joke". It's a joke a 12 year old would make. It wa…

Comparing basic calculus to number theory is like comparing long division to calculus. Saying "oh I know how to take the derivative" is a bit different than knowing how to take the…

Josef Müller-Brockmann (from the 60s): http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2716/4415331726_e98dd8f7c1.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2790/4414564409_974b828fbc.jpg

Coming from a linux and programming background, I find neither Finder nor Explorer nor Nautilus terribly useful.