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I don't think that's all too uncommon for native English speakers. While pairing, I pretty regularly refer to chunks of code as "this guy" or "that guy". Maybe they picked it up fr…

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Basically every time I read what Patrick writes on HN or Kalzumeus, I really want to get into A/B testing. I want to collect data and make changes based on data and figure out what…

Alex wrote about the topic after losing that sponsorship: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/opinion/the-calculus-of-cl... It's a nice, quick read. Especially if you're even vaguely…

For those put off by the first 40 lines, here's the good part: "SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities, as …

Just as important: if I am already most certainly aware, why are you wasting my time by telling me? The same goes for people who write "obviously". If it's obvious, why write it? I…

Hopefully this doesn't come off as too harsh, but would anyone mind telling me why Hype is better than Flash? Judging from their gallery, it's just as bad. It only "fixes" the CPU …

Be sure to test the "Try for free" button in magenta, too. It'll really pop with complimentary colors, which could be a good or bad thing.

Kind of. They're cut down from carrots that are made to grow as long, thin and quickly as possibly. Not exactly from a carrot that you'd find in your garden. That's not to mention …

The swipe and onion skin are pretty simple. Both of them put the images in the same place. When you swipe, the width of the top image changes. For the onion skin, the opacity chang…

If everyone starts aiming for the little blue center, I wonder if people have a better chance of clicking the icon. Maybe they thought of it like extra padding around navigation li…

Moving the left and right arrows with the cursor is a great idea, especially since they don't move until you get close. It might be nicer if they would animate to the position when…

"An earlier draft of this post said 'lucky.' I have since reworded because, honestly, screw luck. Luck had absolutely nothing to do with it. Decades of good engineering, planning, …

They're all very simple grids, which is the beauty of it. You could put them together in a couple minutes with something like 960gs or Blueprint.

Isn't that the benefit gained from testing, rather than BDD?

Might I suggest Jammit? You can write a rake task that packages all the assets, uploads the files to s3 and deletes the asset folder. Change the asset host to your s3 bucket or Clo…

The creepiness probably has more to do with their color choice and cut out triangle than the shape of it. Their model makes it look more sinister than a ball with ribbons taped on …

Honest question: which browsers can't handle gzip'd responses?

Since you added PayPal, you might as well throw Braintree in there. It's pretty great. I've been happy using it for an app I'm working on. Oh, and Mailchimp's API, too. I have a fe…

I doubt that most people expect the site owner to find their IP address (let alone what an IP address even is and what we can do with it) or what page they came from. When I bring …