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I wonder if the incentive actually is to "produce as good a product for their customers as possible," or if it's to find the optimal place on the "price to produce" vs. sale price*…

Would you happen to have some suggestions on where to start further reading of radical economics? I'm halfway through "Doughnut Economics" right now, but it's a bit simple -- I was…

"page-break-inside: avoid" and "page-break-after" seem to work fairly reliably, as long as you aren't doing too much weird stuff with positioning, floats, etc. Three major problems…

Ah, at the title I thought this was going to be about WebRTC, something I'm pretty excited about, even though it has a quite a ways to mature yet ( http://caniuse.com/rtcpeerconnec…

I don't think it's absurd at all. As other commenters have mentioned, seeing the coupon code box and not having a coupon gives me (personally) a feeling of remorse before I've even…

How about Links => "follow" [Nested] Menus => "navigate to" Buttons => "press" Other => "select"

Maybe you could make it detect when the device is turned upside down, and display a 180º rotated interface in the conversation partner's language? So the interaction would be input…

I'm not so sure about the argument that most people would forgo the $4 cup of Starbucks, given a free alternative. Every office that I've ever worked in provided free coffee, and h…

I've always wondered, what happens to the actual programmer[s] responsible for a bug like this? Assuming they find the exact issue, and then go back through the version control log…

But, given that many of the larger ISPs (at least those available to residential customers in my area -- Comcast and Verizon) are owned by companies that also provide cable (and te…

How do you strike a fair balance between ridiculous interview questions (such as the example here, write code interfacing with some library from memory) and actually finding out a …

I disagree. I think the confusion is caused by users not intuitively understanding the context of the android "back". In a web browser, if you click a link to a sub-page on a diffe…

Two things: First, I don't think that huge kinetic weapons would be the ideal choice for this kind of combat. If I'm attacking an asteroid with a huge ass gun on it, I'd first like…

The only bit that was surprising to me was the history of computers that you've logged in from, and the history of other users that have logged in on that computer. While I can see…

Does Amazon make no money from AWS and their other ventures, like the Kindle? It seems hard to believe that possible tax reformations could kill such a huge company.

The name "sieve" gave it away for me before I'd even looked at the code, but I decided to make sure I was right. Then i looked at it and my mind was kind of blown but how neat and …

This is really strange. At the career fair at my school, the USPTO was there recruiting engineers and CS students. Assuming one single person with even a modicum of programming kno…

you could also try using the session manager add-on. I find it pretty handy for when FF crashes with 20+ tabs open in the HN tree, another 10 or so in whatever google search tree I…

This seems like making a site like whohatesshoes.me, advocating for banning restaurants requiring shoes. If you disagree with the requirements of a service, you shouldn't use it (a…

Can't you use a JSONP request?

I could say the same things (in general) about guys who are deeply interested in science and tech: Toddler/Preschool: Gifts of balls, sports cards, action figures, etc. School/Teen…

Actually, it isn't. Airbnb job isn't to guarantee the sanity of its renters to homeowners. They merely provide the interface for that interaction. I've been burned on ebay deals be…

I suppose it's mostly layout/look&feel. I actually didn't realize how powerful the built in Chrome developer tools were. Little things, like showing the color or image when you mou…

Have you tried using tree tabs in Chrome? It isn't quite as slick as the Firefox tree tabs, but still nicer than the little nubs that are the default. That's interesting though, I …

Agreed. Twitter-like apps seem to be the go to first project for learning a new language for web development.