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I deactivated my account. It's still around, of course, and I can log in again when I want. But I didn't want the distraction anymore. I found that checking the feed on my phone be…

Thanks for this, I needed a laugh today.

I think that was a reference to MacVim, maybe?

Did not realize it used math to simulate paint hitting the canvas like that! I like the research that went into this. Pretty neat stuff.

Omigosh I remember this. This is ooolddd but so cool. I used to mess with the creatures by dragging around the joints and such and then get freaked out when their movements changed…

This sounds sick... I did a bunch of research a while back about stars back when I wanted to make a friendly version of the SIMBAD database[1], but it would have been so cool to ma…

Only runs on Firefox, it seems.

Anyone else get a JavaScript error when they attempt to load the demo?

"Who thought you could have fun with the Germans?" Really, Kara? Anyway, obviously there were a couple of mistakes by the speech recognition, and they were taking care to speak ver…

This makes sense. I don't write a lot, but when I do, I actually use Evernote on my phone or TextEdit on my computer. I find the smaller the space to write in, or the shittier the …

Why are they doing this? It's too late. No one is going to want to make Bitcoin transactions through a US-based company now because you know the Fed is going to start creating all …

Wonder if they manually curate these lists or if they initially populated them with some sort of machine learning?

The problem with dependency injection in this manner is that your test code is using a fake class that's injected while your production code is using a real class. This is fine if …

The problem I have with these tools is that the diagram it produces is really not that great. I guess it tells you what models you have, the columns they have, and whether a model …

Is this the same guy who wrote head.js?

I'm not sure why this was posted but I will wager a guess it's the high ratio of women to men. So... good for them! You don't see this a lot and it's a bold statement. Rock on.

This is really, really cool. Never seen this before. Nicely done!

I don't get the "Beautiful Stories" section. All of the articles look pretty much the same. Same full-width image peekaboo parallax banner thingy at the top, same font, same look. …

MIDI was never intended to be playable by people. It's just a protocol, you can do whatever you want with it. So saying that this is "impossible" doesn't make any sense. That said,…

I was going to say... this already exists...

This isn't very useful, unfortunately. There aren't any requirements for this. All it says is "come up with a design!" This is about as useful as saying "Write something about any …

This (and actually bodily augmentation in general) seems like something that 3D printing is perfectly suited for. I see this sort of thing blowing up in the next 10 years.

Not true. Regexes have been around for a long time and there are a few standards -- POSIX basic, POSIX extended, and PCRE. Any language/tool worth its salt these days will follow o…

Wow this is so great. As a musician listening to a classical piece (well and an engineer too) I often think, "How does this work? I hear a clarinet here, is that what it is or some…

Yes, you should master JavaScript -- it's used all over the web and people will continue using it that way. But I disagree it's making all other languages irrelevant and that it's …