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Yes, we sure are lucky that natural born Americans have never implemented anything poorly

> Personally, I find this kind of protesting abhorrent. Yeah? I find raising ducks in dark sheds so you can kill them because you like the taste abhorrent, with or without force fe…

I have an AA1 somewhere, mine has an Intel Atom. Worked great until I updated Linux to discover that I could no longer install the stupid proprietary driver for the graphics, so lo…

All good advice IMO. The _reason_ for the /posts/98765/my-dumplings-recipe pattern is SEO (ugh). It is thought that search engines give extra weight to urls which contain relevant …

I'm expecting a strong correlation with my upcoming study "Women Like Their Partners to Spend Time Hanging Out With Their Buddies, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner", and its…

> We will in fact “take [our] toys and play in another sandbox,” because some of us actually care about the past and future of humanity as a race and our place in the stars. Take i…

I absolutely agree. And I don't buy their justification for going down the app route in the first place: "But by the middle of 2011, six months after we launched in our app, more t…

> I don't like the trend of narrower and narrower line widths (It looks bad enough on my laptop, on a 2k screen 700px width would just look ridiculous); The line length (measure) o…

Or looking at it another way, OP has trained the client to continue to act this way by rewarding his undesirable behaviour. Its like giving a dog a biscuit every time it pisses on …

> My experience of working for agencies is they want to pay a fixed price and will laugh you out of the agency at the idea of paying hourly Mine too, and I've been at this game for…

> Bookmarks: Rolled into Notebook, which was discontinued itself and pushed into Google Docs. So, I guess it's still there, kinda? Certainly looks like it's there to me: https://ww…

I inherited a (dreadful) application which had a hilariously lame 'rude words filter'. It checked for words on a banned list. The full list is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1…

Wait; you're supposed to log in with your Facebook login details, not click a 'log in with Facebook' button? Is this a crude phishing attempt, or just a massive WTF?

I bought one of these about 15 years ago. The packaging was great, with lots of funny cards and stickers. Apparently now you get photos of Cliff with your actual bottle, and a pers…

But if you care about programmer productivity, you use jQuery, then you profile, then you optimise where required. The last step isn't usually necessary.

While I have no opinion either way on your post, I felt that I should point out that Spain's government is not socialist. The party in power (Partido Popular) is on the right of Sp…

> It's not even competetive with bank transfers which costs me a flat fee of about 5€ to transfer funds using my banks internet portal to any other eu bank account. They charge you…

Awesome job of putting un-followable links in the press release, Reading University. I'm going to take this with a hug pinch of salt until I've read the transcripts, due to the inv…

Scripting additions have always existed... I used work for a living in AppleScript nearly 20 years ago. Heavy drinking helps block out the memories.

I'd have to doubt his claim, given this comment which shows they must be breeding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858130

"hamburger menu" refers to a menu which pops out when you click on the 'menu' icon, which looks a bit like a stylised hamburger. => ☰

Laravel isn't going away, even if Taylor gets hit by a bus. There's a huge and active Laravel community, it's just that Taylor is the benevolent dictator. If Taylor was hit by a bu…

Another option is to inject the script: A. At onDOMContentLoaded and B. Inside a setTimeout(func, 0) block Then the browser's loading indicator will stop before the script has been…

Just tried it, and it makes no difference. Still waits for the CSS to load before requesting the script. At least, in Chrome.