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Well, this is only for stubbing an API, you don’t build an actual API, so nothing in the filesystem is changed when you PUT, POST or DELETE. What does change though is the state in…

Please don’t vote for this article, it’s full of half-truths and misconceptions. You can not “fake” scope. When you call `call` on a function and pass an object as an argument, you…

The National Geographic article, the author links to, states that The effects of the Chernobyl catastrophe are still being felt today—whole towns lie abandoned, and cancer rates in…

I think these are still intensely private affairs.

I love your logo! a. “Orders” and “Jobs” both lead to only a sign-in form. I would expect some short information and more explicit motivation for signing up there. Does it make sen…

May I seize the opportunity and ask why MySQL is the prototypical Open Source SQL database software (LAMP, etc.), when PostgreSQL is considered to be so much better? (This is a ser…

I don’t think that you are short sighted. I think Facebook et al. think they are “long sighted”, when in fact they are overly optimistic as to their longterm success. All this talk…

I agree. Consider twitter on the other hand. I would argue that while it may have been introduced to solve a certain “problem” (communication hub for friends/local groups, “I want …

I think ICQ is still the instant messenger in Germany, judging from personal experience. Wikipedia has statistics on different services’ user bases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In…

Yes, I think that could be it. Thank you! But man, this is expensive material. Crazy expensive.

Does anyone know where this course ‘Big History’ that he is talking about is being held? Is it on iTunes U? I can’t find it.