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Sure, it's not a gorgeous next-gen startupesque web design, but I think it's more than visually appealing enough.

BMW is a for-profit business. MIT is a non-profit educational institution. I'll agree that copyright in the digital era is a mess, but the line in this case is fairly clear. Yes, f…

Very sorry to hear this. Wikipedia informs me Crispin was born in 1956, which would put him at 55 or 56 years old. Far too young.

Ah, that just got updated.

Agreed, it's a terribly ambiguous name. Rather than "Google Free-Zone" (which is read as "Google-Free Zone"), it should be a "Free Google Zone."

There is a better alternative: surveying students. Standardized tests attempt to assign one number to teacher performance by quantifying student performance on one three-hour test.…

"Its founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos is a computer whiz-kid from Bankers Trust, not a bookseller." Might've been a negative in '97, but no investor today wishes Bezos were a diehard …

You can also click the black areas to the left and right of the slide.

The idea is that much of the code from Tapbot's mature Twitter client (Tweetbot) was reused.

There are several. Cheeaun's is fantastic: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/

Commits are by no means an accurate measure of developer contribution. ripley's lead is probably undeniable, but the differences in commits between the next four could be developer…

Increasing the accessibility of Git isn't treason. Quite the opposite: Git is now used by far more developers. That's a win for the "Git way of life." And the original, "expert" wo…

Agreed. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my 4GB MBP to 16GB of memory. Officially unsupported, but it works like a charm.

From the FAQ: > What are the maximum benefits under the program? > Amazon will pay up to 95% of the tuition, textbook and associated fees up to a maximum of $2,000 per year for fou…

Just in from Twitter (@mtdevans): "Chatting with a #Tesco insider, looks like they do store any discounts in a local db which is wiped every morning ~3am. #phew"

Quite the opposite: GitHub would love if you signed up. You probably won't log out, and chances are you'll end up on GitHub again sometime soon. You'll discover the wonders of soci…

And then 30% of all tips go to Apple. As much as I and others would love the convenience, I strongly object.

Yes, but you're far more proficient. Those who plug away happily at 30WPM will not share your definition of quality. I'll take a beautiful product that sacrifices minor functionali…

What if he were writing straight CSS, though? No possibility for variables there. (Not yet, at least.)

Not every screen needs a back button. You can't hide a hardware back button. I'm with Apple on this one. The back-arrow button in the toolbar reminds me I'm in a hierarchal app, an…

Fair enough. Upon investigation, I've discovered there are a fair few OS X official system shortcuts which utilize function keys. But I think you're an edge case. Apple targets har…

The only time I've ever used a function key (F1, F2) in a Mac application was in Photoshop. Most Mac applications use Cmd+? shortcuts. So in effect, the volume/brightness controls …

You can never stop the determined. But the courts could certainly pull the app from the Android store.

I claim there is no original thought. We're too shaped by our experiences. I think you'll find most "original thoughts" are a) reversals of commonly accepted arguments for the sake…

Fair, but shorter posts are far more relevant in the politics game than the developer community. I think it's a content length issue, not an ecosystem issue. Most of those develope…