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A possible explanation from a 2003 paper is Electron Holes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_hole ) "Rocks That Crackle and Sparkle and Glow: Strange Pre-Earthquake Phenomena…

I work for Nook as a Rails developer in Palo Alto. I'm not authorized to speak on behalf of the company, blah blah blah, but I just wanted to post a quick comment saying that this …

Whether or not this was built as a joke, there could be real benefit from a service like this. Imagine you need a UUID in JavaScript. Here's a function that does it: function UUID(…

If you're curious like I was, you can find the details of the vulnerability described by Gareth Heyes at http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2012/10/10/firefox-knows-what-yo... His proof-o…

As a developer, I agree that captchas can be a drag on users, and I think we should put serious thought into whether or not their UX-cost is justified. Personally, I try to avoid u…

This reminds me of the story from about ten years ago about a racist police dog in Pittsburgh that would attack bystanders: http://www.oocities.org/ericsquire/articles/dogs/wtae030…

And the only way to stop future SOPAs is to make the system less corrupt, which means taking money out of politics. This is why Lawrence Lessig left the fight against intellectual …

Between this post and comments from startup school along the same lines, there seems to be a lot of people complaining about founders looking to make a quick buck without having to…

When I think of ridesharing this much more pleasant one comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally

I believe you're thinking of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro Also related: http://inhabitat.com/3-d-printer-creates-entire-buildings-fr...

I am not the author of the article, just the submitter. However, I'll run with your comment anyway... Tensile Modulus (aka Young's Modulus) is a measure of how stiff a material is.…

3D printing isn't feasible for the the mass manufacturing of everything yet, but it's feasible for certain types of products today, and it is improving. Here are some ways in which…

tl;dr The IRS built an app for the iPhone. They built it using tools and libraries that hadn't internally been approved by the IRS. The team in charge of the app could have request…

Who said it was better than Bluetooth? There are a lot of existing hardware devices that have RS232 connections but don't support Bluetooth. For those devices this is "better" than…

Along the lines of String best practices, my favorite is to reverse the usual order of variable and literal to avoid null pointer exceptions: if("botulinum".equals(bacteria)) inste…

I've also tried to find a search engine that supports regex and have come up empty. I hope somebody on this thread pleasantly surprises me, but I now doubt one exists. Since parsin…

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed a new approach that we think will strike a better balance by giving our customers greater control over password management and at the same ti…

It's going to work for about a year, then when there is a security failure the company will turn around run git/svn blame and sue the individual employee. You bring up an interesti…

I hold an unpopular opinion that lawyers and lawsuits are a great way to motivate companies to "do the right thing", where in this case the "right thing" we're talking about is pro…

There are so many comments in this thread which seem to be in response to an article different than what I read, that I'm wondering if the link changed. Why isn't anybody commentin…

There's probably a cost to having wrinkly fingers which is why they don't wrinkle immediately. But if enough of our ancient ancestors fell into bodies of water surrounded by steep,…