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I highly recommend mixu's talk from HTML Developer Conference last year covering similar content to his book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDJqKGfIiE

http://www.justiceharvard.org/ If you want to get a bit more out of the series, there are links to readings and discussion questions on the right of an episode page.

The Ack in Project bundle has been deprecated by the creator in favor of the AckMate plugin. It has some major improvements over the bundle. Highly recommended. https://github.com/…

Your statements are valid, but I'm not that concerned with the character of the OP or the exact details of his situation. The point I'm trying to make is that Google could have don…

I can't understand the overwhelmingly negative response to the OP here and on TC. From a purely logical point of view sure, he should have opted for auto-renew or at the least noti…

This shortcut is genius. In TextMate for example, you can type the first few letters of a project and open it near instantly if it's still in your recently opened list. It's one of…

Yes, the proportion of US residents traveling overseas is probably lower than other developed nations. UK residents for example made 47 million[1] air trips in 2009 vs. 39 million[…

Also see http://www.chartercities.org/ and http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html

Well, there is a Best of Hacker News page, but it shows the best submissions of the past few days rather than the best comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/best

I also used to assume that getting rid of a disease like malaria would cause populations to sky rocket in developing nations. Fortunately, this line of thinking is wrong. There is …

Eventbrite - San Francisco (conveniently a block from the Caltrain station). We are Sequoia backed and have grown substantially over the past year. Our US Alexa ranking is around 5…

I've worked with Rails and Django and they are both excellent choices. As others have said, try some tutorials for each to get a feel. Django Tutorial: http://docs.djangoproject.co…