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Come on! This is one of the most remarkably run companies around today. They never do anything halfway. If you balk at $350, you either aren't their target market or you don't thin…

Yeah, in high school in the early 00s I was a big Oberon fan. I had booted the system from diskette on my windows computer. I also had Blackbox and built some really basic things. …

It's not that extreme of a groupon. I think that businesses typically get 25% or less of the cost of a groupon, so it's closer than you think.

They don't want to report daily revenue because it would average out to a lot less than $900 million a year, I think. Two weeks ago they were making over 1 million a day, now it's …

Valve doesn't have a CEO. It's an undifferentiated mass of people, at least as far as power structure goes -- sort of like a slime mold. I think that's a lot different than having …

Seivan, I apologize deeply for getting your comment off track, and I hope others will not follow this further from your main point. However, I would just offer a quick point of adv…

Installing a new Android home launcher, setting up llama, etc on Android is NOTHING like trying to work through an automanual and make changes to your car. This analogy is utterly …

...or you could get an Android for much cheaper and install some home screen widgets. Apple fanboys insist that Android features, such as widgets, are unnecessary. Then they go cra…

Hmmm, could someone build a text "scrambler" that would intentionally create broken English? I have also noticed that "broken English" is more effective by some measures than ordin…

Step 1: Learn to use the CSS profiler in Chrome. Also, here are some articles I found in my links list: CSS Stress Tester Bookmarklet (Copy into a bookmarklet. Then it will tell yo…

I think it works great on desktop via keyboard shortcuts. I use it all the time and I hate it when I have to use other systems.

Uninstalled. I checked, and Facebook took up more memory than any other application I have installed, even more than TSF Shell. (By the way, a MUCH more "feature-rich," useful, and…

NodeJS is written from a MUCH different approach than Rails. An example quotation from Isaac Schlueter (and he says this OVER AND OVER): We like dull models. They're easier to reas…

Node Modules: 23 771 WP Plugins: 23 778 Cue flame war about how this doesn't mean anything. Sources: https://npmjs.org/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ * Used "Tell HN" format…

There are 100000 perl modules, all backed up by an extensive test suite. About jobs: knowing a popular language guarantees you a job, but it doesn't guarantee you a good job. Those…

I find that really doubtful. I used to believe it, but it seems like you still need operators to run things. Programming tools may become much more powerful, but when it goes wrong…

Well, currently birth rates are declining not because people have too little, but because they have too much. We only want as many children as we can have without degrading our qua…

Two possibilities: continuation of existing trends, leading to a hyper focus on education, or a sudden reversal, where we live in a post-technological world. Some are speculating a…

Yes, this is really a great example of how most things that we attribute to brilliance are due more to preparation and foresight.

Right. It's not correct that people will blithely accept an error like "Error: this image failed to load." These people don't think about errors the same way we do. To them all err…

Yeah, as a contrary piece of information, Fred Brooks considered his single most significant act, ever, to be sending E. F. Codd to further education. Codd devised "Codd's 12 Rules…

This submission is absolutely first-rate. Must-see for serious javascript developers. Note http://media.tojicode.com/sfjs-vectors/#35 in particular and remember that TypedArrays ar…