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You're right! But that behavior should be a little better now.

I wrote my own replacement, which is open source here: https://github.com/sirsean/quickfeed I host it for myself, and it works quite well; no mobile app or mobile-optimized site at…

I changed Caps Lock to Control, which is extremely helpful. Especially since on the Macbook keyboard, it's tough to reach down and hit the Control button without accidentally hitti…

I've been an early employee / only programmer in a startup in the past, in which the founder said the exact same thing -- once we get to "revenue neutral," you'll get "a big share …

I paid mine off within about two years after graduating, but later learned that doing so wrecked my credit. (The credit score people want to see a long record of payments, not some…

I ordered the original ZenPad, before learning that it was essentially a scam. After I placed the order (along with others, I'm sure), they delayed the shipment date by several wee…

Yeah, what a waste. You should cancel your subscription to save all the money you wasted by reading those 20-word snippets of text. What? It's still free? And people are still allo…

OS X, 2 monitors. 8 Terminal windows, 2 fullscreen MacVim windows (with vim running the NERDTree and Buffer Explorer plugins). I do all my Java/Flex/Ruby/Python development like th…

I take Damage Control Master Formula from Primal Nutrition; in the last six months I've lost about 30 pounds, find myself considerably less hungry than I used to be, and have a lot…

The same is true of most people who use email, but email still wouldn't have become as widespread as it is today if it weren't interoperable with other email servers.

So ... why do people use Twitter, when blogs already existed?

I was also expecting to allow arbitrarily long text, as well as attachments and additional (potentially user(or client)-defined) metadata.

No, I'm young and healthy, and don't care about health care. I wouldn't go to the hospital anyway. Mainly, what's keeping me from doing it is that I'm doomed to obscurity and peopl…

It sucks. It produces almost no smoke, the cartridges that they claim "contain as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes" last for 2 hours of intermittent puffs, the thing decides t…

I have to use Spring at work in a pretty large Enterprise Java environment, and our setup is not as you describe. Despite Spring's message of conformity, it doesn't actually force …

MacFUSE w/ sshfs, and MacVIM.

Pick the PC. If you happen to be starting at the place I work, the only way I can get a Mac is if new employees say they want a PC. Otherwise I'm stuck. I don't know if I'm next on…

I know I'm getting one.

Trustwave

Because VCs don't invest anything less than a crapload of money?

That's definitely true, and I'm sure it happens a lot. What's weird to me, then, is the frequency of crappy submissions getting enough upvotes to hit the front page while the inevi…

I've tried it a few times. Submitted an article I thought would be interesting to people (along the lines of "check out this small program and talk about its virtues/problems"), es…

Heh. It probably looks like that. But determining who has "the best team" doesn't change who won the league championship. It's just an interesting footnote. (Does anyone think the …