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Ruby's influenced by Perl which has been using that name forever .

Congratulations on your amazing first post. By waiting a year, you've really managed to get a feel for what's acceptable here.

I've seen too many sites with XSS vulnerabilities to think it's a bad idea. Negligence should result in mangled output, not a security problem.

Anybody else having trouble with S3? I don't have actual stats, but I'm noticing a lot of latency and poor performance starting recently, so I'm assuming it's related.

If you don't realize that Reddit crossed that line years ago, you're part of the problem.

The game as played by random scrubs and the game as played by professionals is entirely different. There's an immense depth of strategy, but it can be hard to see if you're inexper…

Finally a title worth editing and the editors have decided not to touch it. Genius.

You're dating yourself. YouTube hasn't been limited to 240p videos for many years; they're rarer than 1080p videos these days.

To whomever's edited the title: "this close" implies a specific value. " this close " may be used less precisely as a rhetorical expression. The original title of this article used…

Thank you for your contribution.

...and all this could have been avoided if the moderators used any common sense in editing titles, rather than silently editing so many to be useless and never responding to commen…

...and all this could have been avoided if the moderators used any common sense in editing titles, rather than silently editing so many to be useless and never responding to commen…

I was thinking about this and remembered the "task completion" service. Their example is Flickr uploading, which is keeping a connection open for an indefinite amount of time, so i…

This is retarded. I don't read news for opinion, I read it for facts and _reasoned_ interpretation. There's some value in opinion pieces but not nearly to the extent or in the mann…

It's not working for me in either Chrome nor Firefox.

That's a terrible justification. I've never seen the site before today, but from reading the other comments it sounds like it wasn't just an insignificant interface change, as was …

I agreed, until I realized that what they meant is that videos that currently have ads are entirely unavailable with HTML5, not that the ads won't display. That would be a bit of a…

Actually, in the original story about the photo the photographer claimed to have set up everything in advance, and used some sort of sensor to have it automatically fire when the w…