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Watchmaker in training here - after 20 years in startups I am now in my first semester of watchmaking school. It is one of the hardest things I've done in my 47 years, and I am lov…

I am an Automattic employee. We do serve ads equally to all browser types. :) [edited to note that I am talking about ads that can potentially generate revenue, not any other ads w…

WordPress.com serves ads to everyone unless you are logged in to a WordPress.com account or are running some kind of ad blocking plugin in your browser. This bit about not serving …

FYI, that link goes to your Google Apps login page. :)

I've found the most effective way to work through a problem is to have to explain it to my wife (who has no programming background). It works wonderfully.

Would that number be any less if Six Apart took the $2M bridge loan?

For those of you that don't want to drop the money on a roaster, you can buy an old popcorn popper and use it. Beware - once you start down the path of roasting your own coffee, yo…

I think you are mainly right. There are a small subset of us ex-Army folks with special skills that weren't signal or intel guys. That number is dwindling every year, partly becaus…

Heroku does support Rails 3 (3.0.0beta). I ended up porting my stuff from 2.3.5 -> 3 and was up and running in no time at all. See http://docs.heroku.com/rails3 for more info.

There goes the rest of my morning...

If by "affiliations" you mean "works for" or "is paid by" DuckDuckGo, it's highly unlikely. DDG is the product of solo founder Gabriel Weinberg (epi0Bauqu). Check out his awesome b…

I wish I could vote your comment up a thousand times.

"Remember that all geeks are shy, just like you. Even the boisterous ones. Or especially. The word “shy” is so universally applicable among geeks that it means nothing: it’s no exc…

Oh, nice one.

As a soldier, I would have loved this while I was deployed. This looks to be a great service - I'm spreading the word to all my Army buddies. Such a great idea!

Yeah, I was super duper excited when I saw that email this morning. It would be pretty cruel if I couldn't go due to an error.