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Marginally related: an entertaining exhibition table tennis match between the author (Syed) and Barney Reed (worked at Google) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ug0qbmi2Kw

Phrased as perceived. The author is probably too young to appreciate what his mother likely did for him. Becoming a parent has a tendency to change your perspective on parenthood.

You sure those are images? All we know for certain is that those are GET requests.

Someone asked him a similar question at the last YAPC in Salt Lake City in June. "What's with the [colorful] shirts?" He replied, "I like the colors."

> That quote is so insulting to me as an introvert because it takes such a solipsistic and ego-stroking view of the world: that people who are successful are successful because the…

This is not the same thing. Hamming worked with geniuses who knew the difference between "A moment Dick? Have you ever noticed how (some astute observation)?" and "Hey! Good weeken…

Seems nice, but it seems to ignore the exif rotation/orientation data... is that something that should be handled when the image is uploaded?

This is the kind of wisdom I wish I had when I started my career and assumed that everyone who did things differently from me was stupid. I wish I could give it to all my current s…

Is there a particular font that works better than others for this? I've tried all my fixed width fonts and the clock is barely readable in any of them.

I built one of these: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla... and I've been using it since early July and spend most of my day at it. It has significantly h…

You can do it with an API call too: http://www.fakecall.net/

Given the results of this group (I was 3 for google, 2 draw), I wonder if Google simply has a stronger technical bias than Bing.

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Wouldn't less ice at the poles (= more water at the equator = higher rotational inertia) mean a slower rotation? Maybe we can get that second back.

Everything is a mashup; Perspective was taken from Percepto: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/percepto/id419502225?mt=8 It's a fun little puzzle game that operates on rotating the pe…

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I think the point is that we vigilantly distinguish "that was stupid" from "that was a stupid person". Judging someone as stupid means we've stopped thinking about possibilities. D…

That's what Chrome is for.

"Population declines following economic collapse" should be "Population declines following sustained drop in birthrate." The population is going to decline regardless of what the f…

> Computers are an extension of people's minds, not devices like a record player, typewriter, or printing press. Intrusion into somebody's processing and data should be treated the…

Isn't that just a little ironic that the Unicode bullets have been converted to the prescription symbol?

The claim that "Debugging is one of the most expensive steps in software development- so you want incur less of it" is something we can all agree with, but "even if it is at the ex…