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Could you share more about how you've used it for less structured information? I've used Anki for about 3,000 Chinese words, and also some structured information (world capitals / …

Probably the CS stackexchange ( http://cs.stackexchange.com/ ), or CStheory ( http://cs.stackexchange.com/ ). Unfortunately, neither are anywhere near as popular as StackOverflow, …

I think the main point here is to avoid general catches and instead catch specific exceptions. The author raises the interesting point that if it's truly an exception, you're bette…

Something about this just strikes me as arrogant. Please enlighten me if I misunderstood ... "How does it work? We communicate with Snapchat's servers and pretend to be their mobil…

The says that a big barrier to adopting 'open source science' is the prestige that comes with publishing in heavy weight, closed journals. It then draws the comparison to software,…

Semi related question -- how is this implemented security wise? I took a look at the github repo and it seems to be all clientside JS, and it's just making ajax GET search requests…

The problem with this is that it can take a significant amount of the candidate's time. Scheduling a project (here's a spec, you have 3 days) is a major inconvenience for a lot of …

I haven't used an iOS device since I switched to the Galaxy Nexus about 5 months ago. How does this compare to Google Now on android 4.1? In general I've been very pleased with voi…

I managed to set up my 2nd gen chromebook with cloudprint, which was pretty straight forward: http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/

I'm not sure having a modal is the best idea -- aren't modals generally frowned upon because they require a mental recontextualization and disrupt the user's flow? I'm just curious…

One big problem with this approach: what happens when your email is down? Does a website really want to tie its availability to that of Gmail / other web mail services?

Go has similar functionality: If you only need the second item in the range (the value), use the blank identifier, an underscore, to discard the first: sum := 0 for _, value := ran…

I'm assuming you mean https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ ? Props! I use that site all the time... surprised that it only nets you $10/month

I'm quite interested in productivity hacks and I've adopted / created a few systems of my own. The key insight in the OP, that you'll eventually do what you truly care about, is on…

The biggest problem I foresee here is that there would be no tactile feedback -- it's essentially the inverse of using a touch screen! You wouldn't know whether your "lift-click" a…

I think Ruby does a pretty good job with this, as far as an object oriented main stream language goes. For example, the switch case example from the article can be implemented in r…

This really makes me wonder what took Google so long. Google practically defined large scale commodity cluster computing with mapreduce (2004). Amazon EC2 was launched in 2006. The…

I disagree. Certainly some agencies may have data that ought to be examined holistically via CSV (at least for researchers?), but having data available via API is better than the s…

Funny you mention this -- this was almost exactly what I and a friend did for a final project last semester. we did it in Go, which was probably much more enjoyable than C :)