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.cat is registered by Catalan organisation puntCAT. According to Wikipedia, its intended use is to promote the Catalan language and culture, these pages notwithstanding: http://nya…

Looks like FJ's been excluded from the Internet Archive. Is there a trustworthy caching authority, you know, for this kind of situation?

Microsoft is a behemoth of a company with presumably layers of bureaucratic and historical debris all over the place. Short of a very profound, top-down remodelling of the company,…

But also IE/Windows. And at the bottom of the article, there are links for additional resources in Windows and UNIX-like flavours.

It's a shame this comment got downvoted. Be it serious or tongue-in-cheek, it was very enlightening.

The way you phrased your comment can only lead to arguing semantics of the word “terrorist”. As risk to the establishment, a “subversive” can always be framed as a terrorist with a…

“Apologies to Hans Christian Anderson” — with the whole TED PR thing just starting to cool down, I found this typo actually quite charming. The surname is spelt “Andersen”. :) EDIT…

> The online version is free and it's available as a PDF, epub, and mobi. To disambiguate: ebook versions are also free (at least as of 2 minutes ago!).

Windows for work. iOS + Linode [1] for personal use / on the go. [1] h/t to yegg, http://gabriel.weinberg.usesthis.com/

Nor to me. Interestingly, using http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1 redirects to http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2 !

I'm at a loss here. I'm very careful not to reject this kind of "My Success Story" thing straight away. Too often it feels to me like the kind motivational self help with no insigh…

Next up: a list of lists that do not contain themselves (Punchline drumroll.)

The juxtaposition of the "A better way to blog" and a gallery of censored layouts is beautiful. Congratulations to the team!

I'm not sure if Mr Hyde's definition of a personal possession was a (well-played) PR trick or simply a certain lack of accounting intuition. Which is a shame, because his putative …

I'm not a security guy. I don't know what reasons other people might have. I actually started it as an experiment, and grew fond of it for no specific laid-out reason. Actually see…

I was actually complimenting you for setting the spotlight to the centre of the page by default, not criticising you. :-) What did you change now? I revisited the page and it looks…

As user of NoScript [1] (and its Chromium sidekick, ScriptNo), I'm often let down by pages posted to hacker news that have poor or no graceful degradation [2], and that often makes…

It looks you changed the URL of your blog post too? I got two different RSS items for the post and the update, and the original post's location (/articles/relationa-algebra-in-bash…

Buses are pretty much ads on wheels, --- and in some buses of the green variety [1] there are TV sets broadcasting most relevant content such as government propaganda, the horoscop…

I'm curious about how your experience compares to mine: more often than not (say four times a week?) I see at least one of those indoor media terminals blue-screen dead. At any rat…

1. Brown (touristic) signs are still a bit rare here, but they're always bi- or tri- lingual. Most other road signs are pictorial and follow international standards. Street signs s…

In the simplest terms, this bill: - outlawed billboards anywhere, period - regulated the size of "corporate totems" (such as McDonald's distinctive pole thing with their logo) - re…

> PHP already landed a change (which will ship with PHP 5.3.9) which will add a max_input_vars ini setting which defaults to 1000. This setting determines the maximum number of POS…

I've been in the financial consulting business for a while and I'm still sometimes stunned by the kinds of things clients will send me as unencrypted email. What's the legal status…