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I worked as a RoR and JS developer on several codebases that involved I18n, and my conclusion so far is that it is better to avoid such multi-lingual projects because there is noth…

it seems to me the five principles - responsibility, perseverance, excellence, creativity, courage - are actually surface terms describing deeper motivation, which is our constant …

my guess is, the world of music theory seems like an epic mess to a novice due to the fact that it maintains full backward compatility and is instrument agnostic. e.g. there is a c…

I am freelancing via Toptal, and you have to pass the entrance exams (which are hard and include live coding), but that is the last time you have to do it... at least that is my ex…

I own two identical 2015 macbook's pro (I live in two places).. and I love to read articles like this one :)

instead of concrete blocks, they could be lifting LiPo blocks :)

I like the engineering side of the problem. if I understand it properly, the greatest danger is that even when two professional divers will accompany each boy through the passage, …

here is one project which is trying to solve the welth distribution inequality: https://merit.world/ they claim that root cause of inequality comes from the fact that signalling an…

not sure if I miss something, but I haven't figured out how to use the tuning knobs :( I tried mouseover, click, click+drag, in vertical and also in horizontal direction, but the t…

the (semi)automatic annotation never really happened. there are ontologies, there are amounts of raw data everywhere on the web, but we haven't discovered a way how to reliably tur…

or if taken to an extreme -- "he was an old, experienced kamikadze pilot".

first I hated those popups, but then I turned it into a funny game -- in every popup which asks for email I fill in email address like "f*ck-off@this-popup.com" :)

I was working 9-5 for five years as web app developer which allowed me to create financial buffer to live for several years without work if needed. I live in a cheap country. At th…

such a facial-expression control may be interesting to integrate with the new facebook reaction emojis: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-reactions-design/

I have following idea: http://goo.gl/dFdys7 and as far as I search the web it is not implemented yet. Anyone interested in implementing it, or you find it too offensive/nsfw? the s…