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Just tried this: 4 fingers with my thumb tucked across my palm worked fine for me.

+1 from me: smcFanControl is seriously handy if you do any sort of coding on a macbook. Was recently running a genetic algorithm on it and the app allowed me to bump the fan speed …

EVE is ridiculous - I remember reading about a guy who spent months setting up an in game bank, and then stole all the funds and made about $100,000 of real money.

is it just me, or is the stylesheet 404'ing? http://basecamp.com/sprockets-c5fcdbcede3dff502006bc5d0d7bef... EDIT: Told the team about it in a ticket, JIC.

* goes to read post * * comments on it on the blog * * comes to HN and discovers people have already made my comments in the comment thread * Great minds...

Also just noticed this at the bottom of his resume ( http://homakov.blogspot.com/p/service.html ): " Discount for girls "

This is clearly a problem: with Rails' approach being 'right from the start', having no protection by default is not the right way to do it. This issue may be well known among the …

Another useful toolkit for stuff like this (and anything to do with natural language), but only available for python at the moment is the Natural Language Toolkit: http://code.goog…

My absolute favourite album to code to would actually be the Tron Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk, but I've also spent the last few years at uni listening to http://www.prettylights…

Spent about 10 minutes just staring at it, eventually looked at the source. Some good comments, and a really nice answer!

As @artanis0 (kind of) mentioned, it'd be great to see a HN post sometime soon called "How to write a good 'REST' API". Or even just some links to good tutorials that could get me …

I love the part where he tries to get back on Mike (Krahulik's) better side: "Did I feed into his emails a little bit too much yeah ok . But it’s one person dude for real. No disre…

Well, this seems to be fixed - the user posted in the image now only has SELECT privileges to the database. Unless my mysql is reeeally rusty and I misunderstood the output...

Am I the only person who find this comment (perhaps inadvertantly) amusing? "A small number have been spun back out... but only after careful consideration and considerable effort …