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Watching the launch, I noticed they seem to have finger rests below the screens. I wonder if this is the reason.

Can't do much about the time it takes light to get here, so I guess the answer is we'd have to learn to love 75 minute ping :)

> While it is easy to bash on an inanimate object, there are some very dedicated and empathetic people who care deeply about the project. Some of those people do this work in their…

Hi I exist

> And, if the best minds are employed in large corporations to work out how to persuade people to click on online advertisements instead of cracking hard-core science problems, not…

> It failed spectacularly, but they're already talking about building a bigger one Awww it isn't that bad. They found the Higgs and at least verified we need to look at higher ener…

It is rare because other systems that form these objects are VERY far away (trillions of KMs). Imagine trying to slide a hockey puck from one end of a hockey rink to the other, but…

To this point, here is the 2nd last sentence in the article: > So, if you enjoy your swears, and being awake really late, and have a messy room, don't worry. You have a higher IQ t…

300k is nothing given the potential profit of this idea working. Tesla probably spends more than 300k on R&D every week.

It's hidden way down at the bottom, but I found the Timeline to be my favourite part :) Edit: Can't see to format it correctly, just check the original source.

I would really like to see an auto-reply feature similar to email out-of-office. Something you can set like "Back in 20 mins", "Coding until 4, PM if urgent only". Would mute the n…

This article hits the nail on the head, but twice-a-day is extreme and not realistic for my position leading a development team. I found the mute button & fiddling with notificatio…

Seeing a lot of comments about how Angular had no migration plan. Migration was discussed at length at ng-conf back in March, including a large portion of the keynote(s). They made…

I would argue from personal experience there's almost the same (or higher) likelihood of internal sources going down for other reasons since most people's IT departments aren't as …

C+ is a language?

async.js changed my life, async programming can get out of hand in a hurry.

Is that a valid variable name? Would that mean Λ is unicode?

I just learned about Dyson Trees[1] recently. Could this be related? (Layman asking serious question) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson#Dyson_tree

> Our latest survey shows that full-time remote devs get paid 40% more than never remote devs Anecdotally, I would suggest the demographic of employees who work remotely plays a pa…

I can't figure out how Kickback gets around the gambling legalities if they are hosted in the US. They also say they use PayPal for withdrawals which is shocking since gambling is …

Specifically common passwords for servers, VPN accounts, test web accounts, etc.

My guess is even basic obfuscation of his code via minification/compression would eliminate the majority of these copies. The version of his portfolio linked in the article has no …

This is anecdotal, but I once found this incredible use of $scope while viewing the source for a sports page: https://gist.github.com/tcrosen/96279e39f9b0fb85c266

As someone who struggles mightily with sleep I can tell you it's science not preference that makes you prefer cold. I can't find the original source of this fact but here is a dece…