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My favorite variation is: “if your only tool is a hammer, then everything looks like a thumb.”

Must... resist... urge... to buy... penis.computer domain...

If you are referring to 2048, that’s because it was ripping off 1024, not Threes.

This reminds me of how when Apple created the UI for the Lisa (and then the Mac), they thought that on the original Xerox Alto, windows could overlap, so Quickdraw had to handle ov…

I have been digging Karla recently and was pleased to see it mentioned. A few that I didn’t know look interesting as well.

TFA is an example of how to improve the quality of about any newspaper or magazine article: ignore the first and last sentence (or at worst paragraph.) Here, they both repeat that …

It’s also my Github birthday, as I joined on April 11th, 2011!

So I found 2 red letters (C at -28.30,-57.30; M at 34.61,135.73), as well as three red signs (- sign at 35.11,-75.98, 9 at 76.50,-24.01, and 1 at 68.92,40.64) so there’s probably a…

It should have more classic examples, such as the already mentioned Fedex logo, or the Carrefour logo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour )

Like many, I feel that the poster is throwing the baby with the bathwater. Yes, SOAP and XML Schema are horrible. Don't use them, then. Yes, XML is verbose, but that's exactly why …

Reading this right now. I also made an SVG version at http://romulusetrem.us/10print/

His points are well taken, but as I player I refuse to participate in this business model. On the other, I would buy this game for more than one dollar, because it looks like it's …

Interestingly, this would allow custom localizations. I'd love to play it in French but as far as I can tell the word list is only in English.

And amazingly, going to Google Maps still defaults to a map of the US... (edit: when you go to maps.google.com)

Too bad it doesn't include posters... I would have made the list :(

This sort of thing happens every leap year, and everytime I remember that the very first exercise in the very first CS class that I took in college was to write an algorithm to dec…

I think that if you had to select just one book, none of the obvious, literal programming or technical books would seem enough... so I would suggest "Fictions" by Borges as a real …

I get a "Retrieving position timeout" error, even though I accept to share my location (on both Firefox and Google Chrome on OS X; geosharing works otherwise, for instance on this:…

I was intrigued by the "INfinite" in the title; but the author of the article just seems confused.

For some reason, every time I read the name Intellectual Ventures I sound it in my mind as Intellectual Vultures.

This reminds me of how Tower Records opened their first store in Japan, when a fake Tower Records store was already operating in Sapporo... (see http://www.fundinguniverse.com/comp…