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Kids, this isn't hard. Just apply a little logic. Statements like "all I care about is what you have done/created/accomplished" is predicated on the notion that everyone is already…

Cool straw man, bro. Would have been even cooler had she actually made any claim that men were only capable of this "mistake". Or that your carefully constructed counter-argument w…

My setup is Emacs + workgroups.el + prodigy.el. No GUI apps to manage, everything configurable via elisp. It is grand.

Circus is awesome. In fact, this Mozilla team has made a bunch of very nice libraries available; with the latest project I'm working on, I use so many that I feel I practically wor…

shrug I will always bottom-post when context matters and always top-post when I expect the reader to know the context implicitly. And I will never read an email chain that requires…

If you'd read the entire message, you'd know he already has many prescriptions.

What a silly straw man argument. No doubt why it is the #1 comment. If I write a particularly effusive post about my love of dogs--how I care for mine meticulously and spend time r…

If your wife is anything like me—and her symptoms are identical to ones I had during an earlier stage of my depression—then they are real and should be examined. Even if they never…

I can't overstate how important I think these sorts of habits are. A slow walk. A quiet meditation upon waking. In aggregate, they can really change your life. The problem is, thes…

Agreed. As is so often the case, "unique" is utterly misused here. That being said, having used Go, I really do enjoy the composition-at-core design.

The difference is that your application server doesn't render HTML; there is no view that produces HTML and sends it as the HTTP response. It's just flat HTML, served up by a gener…

Excited for the technical write-up as well. I've been building an app in Angular myself and I absolutely love it. Coupled with a REST-ish API library, it's a breeze in terms of tes…

I was reluctant to setup two-factor for a long time, perceiving it to be an unnecessary hassle. Then somebody tried to gain access to some of my accounts through my Apple ID. They …

As much as anything else, this is another great example of MySQL letting you shoot yourself in the face by default. I also love that you can save "y" to an integer field without co…

That was my immediate reaction, too. Though it sounds like the node.js server is doing more than your standard bouncer; ZNC support seems unlikely.

I wonder what I'm doing wrong, then. Almost nothing on my T420 worked OOB. I've written custom acpi event scripts for handling docking, monitor switching, etc. Forget about the Fun…

See also: http://emacsrocks.com/

Instead of fake security solutions, how about using something like keychain ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/keychain-guide.xml )? Simply kill ssh-agent as part of the sleep event an…

Especially when that slogan is grammatically incorrect.

Now make some other code use your "mock" without editing its source. Now assert on the calls made to "bar()," including arguments. Now make it raise an exception without writing a …

Having spent many hours of my youth on technology forums, I feel I am qualified to say: this is the most banal "show your setup" post, ever. Save Noah, it's just an Apple Store. Sa…

One of the many things I love about using next to no GUI programs and a minimalist window manager is the lack of notifications. The only time I get a notification is when I receive…

Yes, it's probably an order of magnitude more expensive when accounting for the countless hours spent pre-optimizing everything, tracking down intensely opaque performance issues, …

Frankly, having worked on a serious AppEngine application for over a year, it most certainly is not. Of course, that isn't an absolute statement--perhaps some serious applications …

There are two classes of programmers: the taught and the self-propelled. You can certainly teach someone to program--what they do after that defines the rest of their career. No CS…