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It's not a new golden age of fitness. There may be a short-term boon, but people's motivation will eventually nose dive without social interaction. "Previously, 50% of gym-goers qu…

I feel like part of the reluctance with accepting C# and .NET as fully open source platform, outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, is somewhat due to Azure. At the moment, the three …

I quite appreciate these kinds of posts. Fun and silly, yet make you think about the way computers work outside the box.

Read the ECMA scripts. ESPECIALLY sections 13 and 15. Seriously, even the best textbooks will only give you a superficial understanding relative to the actual standards. Sure there…

Nooooo! Don't make me INSTALL a standard-compliant shell!! Make me install a NON-standard-compliant shell. It's better to have an old version of a standard-compliant shell be the d…

Nooo don't make zsh the default shell. Wtf is Apple doing? I don't have an issue if people want to use/download zsh, but making it the OS default is a huge mistake! From the zsh do…

I've found that people who stay up late also tend to tell you [edit: and brag] about it. For example, if a friend is out late partying you're almost guaranteed to hear about how la…

Curious how that's a security issue? Bookmarks are just public links, so there's no problem if someone sniffs them out, right? Do you mean if a site stores cryptographic informatio…

I respectfully disagree with that last part. IMO it's your moral obligation as a distributor of information to, to the best of your ability, ensure its' truth and validity. I'm not…

Had a guy interviewing for an intern position once say, after my coworker showed him a bit of code, "the biggest file I saw today was 500 lines, so I'm pretty sure I can handle it.…

"However, out of this wonderfully frustrating evolution of JavaScript I think things are beginning to settle down." React - first commit May 29, 2013 Flux - first commit July 23, 2…

Giving an option is an awesome idea! It says a lot about the flexibility and open-mindedness of your company. Too many companies have a "take it or leave it" interview processes. I…

Had the same reaction. How is this on the front page of HN?

I love lightweight frameworks that exist mainly to reduce boilerplate code and, for web development, mitigate cross-browser compatibility issues. ExpressJS and jQuery are good Java…

Here's a more aesthetic version http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers...