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> I'm sorry you feel that way. We just happen to disagree then. This kind of thing really annoys me. What do you mean you "happen to disagree"? Bakkot pointed out a fundamental con…

For those Rails users amongst us, many of these cool data types (I am particularly hanging out for Arrays) are available in the fast-improving postgres_ext gemⁱ, and (even more exc…

> The fact that Humans exist proves there is some intelligence in the Universe > The fact that humans exist proves no such thing I think you missed his point. The fact that humans …

> My favorite pair of jeans gets worn 10 times more often than my other jeans. If I did away with the other jeans, I could afford to buy more of those things I really love. This to…

> the screenshots from the "game" someone made One person. They're obviously troubled. Are we really going to let the actions of one person change the frame of the whole discussion…

Dude, the banana suit isn't funny either. I'm sorry but someone has to tell you. How about you make a good product? Then you won't need to pull these stunts. Or if you have one - p…

> Christian, husband, father, software developer. In that order. Maybe this is a horrible thing to say but when I read something like that I just completely turn off. Religious fan…

This is pretty painful. Firstly, I'm sure such vote-buying is against the rules, or at least against the spirit of any such award. Secondly .. is this what it's come to guys? This?…

> The horror of slavery was that you had no choice in life Your argument is all just semantics. Fine, slaves had no choice, and a large segment of Japanese (and other) society have…

Wow, interesting, thanks for the research. I'm in Sydney too and I was surprised at how fast it was, but didn't think to look into it. Cool.

Unfortunately seems to be US-only: > The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.

Actually, it seems a sale or something just ended and the qantas.com price is back up to 1800! I'll edit to remove that. But yeah, all Australian sites have to state the fully load…

It's not even close to the world's best travel site. I've looked at it before - maybe it's good in America but outside the results are bizarre. I̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶g̶…

Sounds like if the hacker had just done it out of hours, perhaps when the person in question was asleep, they would have had uncontested access to the accounts and the hack might h…

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill It's not a new problem.

Maybe it means "remaining attention span"?

> at some point Samsung could simply say "no more" I don't think it really works like that. Apple doesn't show up at the Samsung Shop every day and ask to buy the next day's compon…

This article is shockingly bad, from the very first sentence: > There are only 3 enterprise-grade technology products I’ve ever seen that sell themselves. Two of them are from Appl…

TL;DR: HR at some no-name start-up gets it into their head that some kid can make all their programming dreams come true. They made a blog post to lure him. Later, HR at some other…

He doesn't have enough karma to do that.

I don't think Nintendo could swing the $1 model anyway. They don't have a ubiquitous cellphone. They're just selling game consoles to people who want to play games. Nonetheless, I …

It seems to me that Nintendo was somewhat blindsided by the rapid consumer adoption of HD televisions. They've really dropped precipitously in price over the last few years, and as…

I think you mixed up months and weeks. The period is actually 28.9 months, ie. almost two and a half years. I think it's pretty attractive, especially considering updates will like…

Too right. All those photo features are just bloating up Photoshop! In fact, not just the photo features. I use it exclusively for writing essays, so all those image functions are …

This video is fake, that has been established beyond doubt. But CGI, even "prosumer" CGI like this, is really getting better. Even at this level, people are relying on "hints" that…