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I've never met a class I didn't want to inherit.

If you pay attention to the commas the structure of the law is: If you do A OR B based on C A: Deprivation of rights B: Different punishments where C is on account of such person b…

This law refers to race discrimination and isn't relevant to your argument. Key part with lots of sub clauses removed for readability: "Whoever, under color of any law, willfully s…

I wish you linked to Joel Spolsky's article rather than blogspam. Article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html

This is a significant disadvantage for some categories. For example one category from Friday was "WARE"-ING with each question containing "ware" in the response. After typing out t…

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett is a great fictionalized spy novel centered around Operation Fortitude and spy catching in the UK during the second world war.

I don't think this is a big deal at all. It is unclassified and also not marked with one of the Sensitive But Unclassified markings ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_but_unc…

The article implies he simply used the cards to buy stuff he would buy normally which put him over the threshold dollar amount to earn the bonus miles. If this is true it's equival…

Bizarre Google Trend Spikes are traditionally caused by 4chan, it doesn't seem like that is the case here though.

Not only do they follow a small number of patterns, most that involve subject matter rather than simply logic are part of a small number of categories. Almost all involve body part…

Works well in Opera.

I think despite all the differences between systems I would still call someone who is a member of the legislative body a member of the government in general terms.

By this logic you wouldn't call a US Senator a member of the US Government?

Beware of the dreaded Second System Effect?

APB was a good game with a lot of potential but it was plagued by two issues. The first being a total lack of variety in regard to story content and the second being that the match…

I was working on a Django app a few months ago that required a lot of chart features. I was impressed with how easy sparklines is to use but for some larger charts I used flot.

I think Offer HN is appropriate in some situations where the offer is something particularly unique you wouldn't be able to find elsewhere on the Internet such as the Ivy League UG…