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You can configure Gmail to not display certain folders in IMAP.

Yes, but what better metaphor for new beginnings than a "new line"? :-)

A little while ago they tweaked the way questions appear on the home page, might have something to do with it. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/stack-overflow-homepag...

As a Rally user, I must agree.

People on the main wikipedia site aren't going to tell you to go post your Star Wars article on the Star Wars-specific spinoff wiki site though are they?

Considering HN's minimalist design (a good thing IMO), and the readership, it should be no surprise that we're seeing these "redesigns". There are a few mobile apps for reading HN …

Thought the same thing when they mentioned scrum master.

Great post. I've been "bored" of Facebook for some time now (as I suspect many are). There's another thread on the main page where people are discussing whether or not Facebook is …

...go to http://j.mp/a11K0t [Etisalat site] > This site requires Internet Explorer ! If you were looking for more reasons to dislike these guys I guess...

"I wasn't invited to Apple's event" This is an important sentence.

Except for HN I guess?

As someone who just recently bought his first house, it seems unrealistic to have saved up that entire amount within any kind of reasonable timeframe. Obviously, you should buy a h…

Is there inflation in the user permissions you get with rep? Yes. http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation

Reputation and other points systems are designed to attract people because it's like a game - in fact, this very site uses it! Obviously there's the problem of people "gaming the s…

Right on the money. I was there in the (relatively) early days where it was exciting to ask and answer questions and contribute to the site, while scoring points(!) Nowadays I ofte…

Only somewhat related, but first thing that came to mind: http://xkcd.com/327/

Yeah, my first thought was: "oh, well, most families can certainly relate to this - it's a replacement for your KITCHEN computer!"

That's the first of the translate feature I've seen (trying Chrome 5 beta as my primary), didn't work for me on that page though - internal server error.

I've never heard of fossil before. There's a lot of noise around Git and Mercurial these days (I just recently transitioned to Mercurial from SVN), but fossil sounds like an intere…

You can only ad-hoc install apps that have been signed for your device specifically. So if Alice and Bob want to exchange apps in this way, they can, but it prevents them from dist…

Yep. Not even available in Canadian iTunes store.