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I generally agree with your post, but I think there is a critical difference between your argument and that of the blog post. Of course teams are more productive with technologies …

A more appropriate example might be Python. It didn't ship with Pip by default until Python 3.4 (released in 2014).

I just want to say thank you. VB was my first introduction to programming. I was in fourth grade and I asked my parents for VB6, and they thoughtfully also bought me "Visual Basic …

A friend and I built http://usefixie.com/ with it to learn Go. Like artursapek's project, Fixie was a good fit because it involved concurrency and networking, and latency was criti…

Yes, several of those convictions carry the potential for a life sentence. Additionally, the New York Times reports that the two most serious convictions carry minimum sentences of…

I tend to agree, but there is still a place for this app. SF's parking enforcement and the appeals process is thoroughly broken. I know several people who have lost appeals when th…

Berlin may be worth considering as well. Opportunities for developers in Berlin are comparatively plentiful, and while it would be nice to know German if you live there, many tech …

I'd assume it's an XLSX simply because that's the format they received it in from the Defense Department.

Love this idea! I signed up and am looking forward to seeing what kind of items are available in the coming weeks. One little thing confused me about the dashboard: I can see that …

Jekyll with GitHub Pages is a great solution, but it's worth mentioning that other static site generators serve the same purpose and may be a better fit for you, depending on your …

This is cool, but the naming is unfortunate as Polyglot is already a somewhat popular library for doing internationalization in Javascript: https://github.com/airbnb/polyglot.js

As a result, app deploys are also down.

You shouldn't trust it just because of your UI. With developer tools, regardless of your UI, it would be trivially easy for a malicious user to send any arbitrary SQL query. This w…

I would be so happy if Heroku passed along these price cuts to their customers, but based on past AWS price cuts, I'm not holding my breath.

I love the idea of removing Backbone's jQuery dependency. If I could use Backbone without jQuery, I would gladly leave jQuery behind. For my use case, Backbone would also have to l…

I'm not sure it's a really a small subset of users. My personal gmail is down as are all accounts in two different Google Apps organizations I belong to.

Exactly this. Serving fully formed html and picking it up by a client-side framework is great for crawlers and also great for performance. In addition to React, you should check ou…

It's great to see schema migrations move into Django core. South is great, but Django will be much better with schema migrations baked in, especially for newcomers. For anyone comi…

It's certainly possible to do a kind of software development without much math, but having a strong basis in math definitely gives you tools to solve hard problems better. Even fai…

An interesting effect of this is that everyone using ssl provided by CloudFlare's Pro tier now gets dropped to an A- because they use RC4 with TLS 1.1.

My favorites: "Google is about to learn stats" "Progressive JPEGs: a new alternative to Node.js" "Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Problem" "Your Username Will Now Have Amazon…

I'm getting 38 FPS on a 2012 Macbook Air with Chrome. Didn't expect the HD4000/HD3000 difference to be so big.

Both their site and their data API are down.