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That's a very interesting learning resource. I wish something similar came for Scala or Clojure (as opposed to tryclj, which does not have all those "Learn" pages).

Saying that HTML is nothing but a technology created for hyperlinked text is like saying the mobile device you're using all the time was created to pass phone calls. While this is …

Of course there is a lot of room, but it doesn't invalidate my point.

- Programmers make horrible designers Please don't generalize, this is not always true. Being a programmer (with a formal CS background) who used to make a living as a professional…

While I totally understand your feeling, you should be aware that this strategy wouldn't work if you wanted to start a company like Tesla or Intel. No offense, but what you call a …

You're generalizing too much if you believe that the whole AWS stack is bad. S3 is very reliable, and I'm not aware of anything as reliable (we're talking eleven nines)/simple/chea…

Well, you said Solaris, not SmartOS. If you really believe there is more information in SmartOS' wiki than in man pages & other proper documentation available about Linux, I don't …

Not to be pedantic, but I'm not sure your cat will understand if you tell it not to disturb you during work hours.

While I can totally understand people who want to be in the quiet, your post made me feel better. As in, I am not alone.

This is the world we live in. A world where being seen enjoying something matters more than actually doing it. People's need for social validation is so strong it sometimes saddens…

There's something that I am genuinely wondering. Will car ownership really decrease? Where I used to live in 2003, in China, taxis were really cheap, and public transportation was …

You're absolutely right, After all, why shall we even try to save human lives? According to the current population growth rate[1], we have a relatively high supply of humans on ear…

Using the current Nightly, I go up to 1.1Gb of memory usage, and the system (an old mbp with 8gb ram) is now noticeably slowing.

Like dsr_, I had never seen this game before, and he is totally right saying that your lack of promotion is a mistake. I just tried it, and I spent nearly 15 minutes shooting the b…

Well, the same thing could be said about "that guy with mostly C, PHP or Java experience".

I would like to make sure that people here understand one thing. The hatchlings guys are doing it wrong. Who's to blame in this story? The guys who based their business on somethin…