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In other news, go.com is still a thing.

Well it's certainly not a science as the scientific method is nowhere to be found. The closest thing to it at most universities is the math department, which seems to end up in the…

This is so laughably wrong as to be absurd. Your explanation for Canadian telecom entrenchment and protectionism is that it's anti-American? Canada and its provinces have imported …

Right.

If I recall, the issue with a public 0mq socket was that anyone driving by sending something 0mq didn't like would cause an assertion to fail, so your process would crash. It wasn'…

I'm curious why you ascribe that preference to historical reasons. My exposure was in reverse order to yours but we have the same preference.

> btw, swegr ~= hacker ? I think it's an abbreviation of 'software engineer(ing)'.

> Arguably, an ObjC programmer should know that booleans are YES and NO and not true or false It's just C. 0 is false, anything else is true.

> Python's auto-concatenation of runs of string literals is convenient but I don't know of another language that does the same thing. The C preprocessor (in GCC and Clang at least)…

Perhaps Apple thinks different by being better, not just different for the sake of being different. I think maybe you're giving evidence for, not against, the post you replied to.

If I could, I would answer "As little as possible". If there's anyone building towards scripts that will, say, build an app and run it in the iOS simulator without using Xcode, I'd…

This puzzle is mentioned in the lovely documentary Wordplay[1], which ostensibly follows a cadre of competitors in a year of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Well worth a …

It uses CoffeeScript's grammar, so there's no need to learn a new one or switch between two different grammars as you work. It's also way less code than Haml. CoffeeKup's src folde…

You can certainly use the client for plain ol' Git. The GitHub-specific stuff is a "Push to GitHub" button on repositories that aren't already on GitHub, and a list of your GitHub …

The "safety factor"... is huge for THC, LSD, mushrooms, DMT, K , etc., and much smaller for MDMA, Meth, K , opiates, coke. --- I spy a repeat...

Egg carton!

I was looking into turns-into-whiteboard paints/stickers recently and turned up a handy comparison of various surfaces and their whiteboard-ability. Turns out washing machines and …

This article is unreadable. And that may be the point.

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Any word on whether this affects version 2 of Skype for Mac OS X (the old one), the current Skype 5.1, or both? Neither the article nor the linked blog post would say. If the forme…

A very little color. Can you add anything that wasn't in the originally-posted article? For example, answers to any of these questions: Why was the accused infringer of trademarks …

Were you actually confused, or are you just picking nits? If the latter, then it's not really a bug is it.

"Big 'r'" and "small 'r'"?

Very realistic until you need to debug your code. Debugging's JS-only, as far as I know, so you're picking through the compiled CS looking for errors. edit: Well listen to the man …

Do you ask museum curators what point value they assigned the paintings in their exhibits? The curation still happens without numbers attached.