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The problem with the news feed is it assumes I want the same level of engagement with every project I follow. On my own repos, then yes, show me every comment and commit. But usual…

You could chalk it up to stress testing that pointed out a flaw. And to GitHub's credit they provided a quick fix and a professional response, kudos to them. Peace has been restore…

Mafia thugs in Italy have been doing this for years.

I was referring more to the latent sexual confusion.

I think his sentiment resonates with the numerous outsiders who are amazed that this kind of drama always seems to bubble up from the Ruby community.

And less likely you'll actually find it.

I'm only going from the article, which is evidently flawed (TechCrunched!), but it could effectively add a tax on social networking sites operating in the state. States compete for…

It doesn't. And it would.

How many unicorn dollars can I pay you to keep these posts off the front page?

For what it's worth, LifeHacker liked it: http://lifehacker.com/5800500/first-look-at-google-music-our...

This sounds more like an argument for open source. Ignoring efficiency issues, I'd much rather view a JavaScript framework on GitHub than in a View Source window.

I don't mean to disparage all the good journalists out there, they certainly exist and I have massive respect for the ones that go to jail for their sources. But WikiLeaks has alre…

This is probably way for them to aggregate potential exclusive story ideas. I'd treat it like you were going to speak to a reporter anonymously, they may have your back, they may n…

The biggest argument against immortality is that your chance of ending up in eternal pain goes way up. There are countless scenarios where you end up stuck in the bottom of the oce…

Also check out "The Little Schemer", it's great.

The debate over hygienic-macros is not as straight-forward: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.lisp/dcX15VC5BdM... Some* argue that hygienic-macros are an unnecessary burd…

He makes a good point. Since Google recently went after the content farms that hurt their search results, it would be nice if they extended that to authors and legitimate content p…

It makes no sense to store it on the device for tracking purposes. It would make sense to store this information on a server, so why aren't they? Is it a mistake, or are there laws…

Going off-topic, but what the hell. I grew up memorizing stats on the backs of baseball cards and playing sports video games, so I agree that knowing the numbers is as much a part …

Only because of the horrid sports journalism in the US that reads like a police blotter. I follow some Euro-soccer and was amazed at the difference in quality and breadth of the wr…

Here's the full segment from 60 Minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363070n

It's back up, with comments disabled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWYqsaJk_U8 And it's a very well made video.