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I'm interested in this sort of competition, but honestly, I don't know enough to even begin. What do you recommend to someone who'd like to learn enough to participate in these com…

If you (or someone else) wouldn't mind taking the time to explain it, I'd really like to know why your unsupported and vaguely anti-Ruby statement is so popular. I'm assuming that …

I'm sure the remaining employees appreciate your keeping the company afloat.

I'm shooting from the hip here, but I think maybe there's a distinction to be made between ideas for a product and ideas as a product. The end result of the ideas of mathematicians…

When will Rails 3 be formally released (as the stable, recommended version)?

How did you and do you decide which services to provide? How do you gauge demand as you're thinking of possible products?

I think he means that he shouldn't be obligated to sign up for or get involved with any service that he doesn't want to just to protect his reputation. Sure, you don't have to pay …

I don't use Ruby very much, so I can't respond to the bulk of your comment, but I wanted to note that Dive Into Python was first written for Python 2.x, then rewritten for Python 3…

Why do you say so?

In Zed Shaw's new Python book, he writes: "People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine,…

More readable print version of article: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/...

What is the average highest level of education attained by those who have sold their technology-based companies for a personal gain of $10+ million? Inspired by the Reddit AMA post…

Wow! I really like the attention to detail. You can change the desktop wallpaper with the genuine Windows 3.1 tile images, you can create and save files (which download to your act…

Because you're considering stopping, I wanted to say that I find this sort of post very helpful. Many times I've found much more interesting discussion on previous submissions beca…

I disagree. Being able to downvote comments to -4 (and no farther) seems like an excellent system to me, as it allows us to punish comments that are detrimental to discussion while…

I'm very interested in that sort of business model - selling real or virtual products within a free application. I remember reading an article last year ( http://arstechnica.com/ga…

"Médecins Sans Frontières [Doctors Without Borders] is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conf…

I think he's saying that if someone came into your house and said it was theirs, and had the ability to enforce that, it wouldn't be your house anymore. No, you can't ethically say…

> And is he pleasantly surprised at the 250ish Euros or did he consider it too high? He was very pleasantly surprised. In response to a comment on his post, the author wrote: "Acco…

If you expect a comment of yours to be downvoted, perhaps you should consider whether or not the comment in question is actually contributing to the discussion. I imagine that your…

Sorted results of that poll (as of 9:30 PM EST 11/15/09): INTP - 207 INTJ - 188 ENTP - 76 ENTJ - 57 INFP - 41 ENFP - 30 INFJ - 27 ENFJ - 16 ISTP - 12 ESTJ - 11 ISTJ - 11 ESTP - 4 E…

How did you finance the café initially, as a college student?

A thought on security - I think #5 should be changed from if socket.gethostname() == 'productionserver.com': DEBUG = False else: DEBUG = True to if socket.gethostname() == 'develop…