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Yes, the growth in the webspace can be partly attributable to programming being more stable, more accessible to beginners. Do you think the hard part of any programming/engineering…

How slow is "slow" for you right now? And writes vs. read? Which MySql storage engine are you using?

Good read: this story has nothing to do with programming but everything to do with overcoming the loss of extrinsic rewards and putting yourself somewhere where your mindset and pe…

We have to ask ourselves: where is the money? Our rights aren't being lost to a sprawling military-police state just because there's a Big-Brother wannabe conspiring to destroy the…

After seeing some of the NSA protests yesterdays, it's easy to see Obama the college student taking part in those: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/recollections-o... F…

The page looks nice and you have a clear flow and call to action...but the copy could use tightening up all around. For example, the subhead: > New, exciting way of doing online co…

The U.S. and Russia are still large strategic and economic partners. There's other political balls being juggled around, like the ongoing conflict in Syria. It's not necessarily "l…

This has little to do with Google+ itself and more to do with Google becoming ubiquitous and + riding along

The upside is that a poor product with an entrenched position does not automatically win just because its backers could afford polished design

I'll be the one who says it... There are too many typos in this piece (including the first paragraph) to take it seriously.

Neat! I hope physics classes today are getting more into using such web interactive modeling. Or, that the new wave of interactive books are leveraging this kind of ability.

Surprised no one's mentioned Zed Shaw or his Learn Python the Hard Way series... http://learncodethehardway.org/ According to his homepage, his books have been downloaded 500,000 t…

i'm not sure if the audience is supposed to be clients or if it's supposed to be informational to prospective devs, but it's not a very welcoming/informational page to someone who …

I'm new to this...so with IFTTT and Zapier, are they hand building their own APIs to these services?

You're obviously not overweight but you're pretty light for that height, so I wonder if someone with a lower center of gravity would suffer fewer back issues? What if you used a la…

Would love to get a published collection of their brain teasers. Those were always a good way to pass time during car rides.

I know they say that the chats aren't screengrabs, but why even make it look like they were? Text (and avatar) is just fine. Also, are these from a source different than the one BI…

This looks great. I'd buy it if I weren't so already tied to workflowy though.