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I helped make Scatterdot, and would be happy to chat about some of the things we talk about here. We thought this might be a helpful thing for Slack app authors.

A group I've never heard of before today is claiming responsibility for a bunch of game server outages, including League of Legends, battle.net, and DOTA 2. This link is to their T…

A funny thing about the family pack is that for at least one version of OS X, the only differences between the family pack and the single user version were a sticker that said "Fam…

I think of this as a Kickstarter to pay for a year's worth of comics. These guys keep a schedule of three comics a week, and they're offering to do that in a novel way. They also h…

In some states in the US, it's illegal to ask for id for a credit card purchase. In all states, the credit card companies don't like it. Here's a good set of google answers about t…

You may run afoul of the credit card companies if you try to verify ID on purchase.

re: 1 - For user shared links, Facebook redirects to anonymize the referring profile. I suspect they forgot to do the same for ads, and it was an honest if frustrating mistake.

Concierge is the software that they use to keep track of support appointments, not an individual person.

Maybe investors could pool resources to start their own rating agency that would be answerable to them, and publish ratings for everyone to use? There has to be a better system.

It seems to me that rating agencies should be paid by the institutional investors that buy the bonds, not the banks trying to sell them. That might help the incentives line up bett…

Setting aside the question of whether they needed a bailout, which I'm not qualified to answer, Goldman Sachs did receive federal assistance. The best link I can find is a referenc…

I think the team is by far more important than the two sentence summary of the idea, so in that sense it's too early to judge.

I believe Mozilla distributes Flash as a plugin in the Firefox download. If they don't, they certainly make special allowances to make Flash easier to download and install than oth…

While it's nice to build a cool narrative around Steve Jobs and a long time "tragic flaw," this doesn't hold up. Steve Jobs was not at Apple when they sued Microsoft. It was filed …

I vastly prefer being able to redownload software that I've paid for, but some people may prefer physical copies.

Getting a complete list is very hard due to the nature of zip codes, but the wikipedia article I linked to has an incomplete and unordered list.

This is going to be wrong for some of your users, because some ZIP codes cross state boundaries. So you'd need to let them correct the guess in that case. It is unusual for one zip…

That's not true. Civil cases can have a jury.