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Wonderfully written article. Thank you.

Thank you for writing about this. Bickering about biases that an article or commenter might have is the least productive thing imaginable. We all have biases, we all have one produ…

IMO, using light colored type on a dark background is relieves more eyestrain than any particular font could.

I couldn't agree more regarding using a standing desk. The ability to stretch and move around makes working for long periods of time much more productive.

I agree with the OP, but the most important part of Jiro's philosophy is his believe that one must choose a craft and dedicate one's life to perfecting it. If this is the mindset t…

That functionality is coming with Xcode 4.5

do you see an API becoming a "platform" in the same sense as iOS/Android or will they remain services that provide content and facilitate specific features?

Designing for the 80% case is especially important in mobile, where cluttering the user experience with small, seemingly nice to have "features" ends up turning a smart, functional…

thats the kind of attitude you have when they serve JD in the water cooler

The last thing the government wants to be involved with is selling real estate, art and other illiquid assets. There is a very real possibility that the government would lose money…

Learning about algorithms is far more difficult and far more important than the mechanics of writing code, which is the focus of sites like Codecademy. I believe that there are cer…

over under on the time that it takes for this to be changed?

Agreed- you can take an intro course in crypto and still find many ways of getting it wrong. My intro to crypto professor reiterated this fact almost ever class and noted that even…

I agree that there are definitely cases, attaching multiple files being one, where the lack of file system access makes the process more difficult or impossible. However, I think t…

Rand would never be able to adhere to DRY

we use this as the basis of our OS course at Columbia. It helps you get an understanding of how an operating system works without having to wade through tons of code.