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Core-apps.com is hiring paid interns with the ability to telecommute. Our primary web stack is Ruby (Sinatra) backed by a blend of CouchDB, Redis, and PostgreSQL. We also have nati…

Detroit (IIRC) made me do that. I was fine with it.

I have one, and I love it as well. I have a hard time committing to read long things on my computer -- I now just put it on my kindle, and when I'm away from my computer, I can foc…

I've decided it's time to have a podcast about programming languages, and am looking for some enthusiastic users that might consider themselves an expert in a particular language. …

Exactly, if my professor was like this, I probably would have gone past Calc II.

But portions can be open source, as long as you keep what makes you as a business closed initially, you can retain control over your bloodline, while either open sourcing chunks or…

I've jumped on Plurk, and I like it a lot.

I thought the title meant it was using Altivec or SSE, but it's merely operating on a chunk of 4 bytes at a time dealing with misaligned data up front. Still a good article, despit…

Oh Scribd, why must you ignore my scroll wheel? Original PDF: http://code.noahgift.com/pycon2008/pycon2008_cli_noahgift.pd...

I have my phpMyAdmin installed only on my secure site, behind HTTP authentication as well.

But at the same time, it could provide an "in" to people who normally wouldn't take funding for fear of the way VCs normally operate.

Cute, but throw some %20's at it.

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I used illbuzz.com. They are great, fast, and have high quality paper. I opted for the rounded corners, making it 1000 cards for $45. Excellent service.

I second this. I have this option turned on in reddit, and it keeps me from accidentally navigating away from reddit. I keep clicking on links here and by the time I read the artic…

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Nasty? It just reloads it? I fail to see failure to cache as a nasty bug.

I forgot an obvious one that I pay for: SmugMug.

I don't know if it's true that free is killing us. I can point to several counterexamples, such as 37Signals and FogBugz that charge for their applications, and are apparently heal…

Here's an audio version: http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail-episode/342059/episode... And the direct link to the MP3 to avoid signing up: http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/podcas…

I loved it. Stick with it for the first... 15 minutes or so, and you'll realize how clever his talk is.

I tend to think that Easter Eggs are a sign of creativity in and of themselves. In one of my unreleased desktop applications, we poured way more time into an Easter egg than we sho…

A cup of coffee.

Which means that on a smaller plane on a full flight, you may have to gate check your bag, leaving you lined up on the gateway when unboarding. I agree with you -- lining up sucks.…