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Some interesting work regarding citations has been put forth by the Semantic Publishing and Referencing ontologies, specifically the CiTO ontology[1]. It allows an author to state …

From the article: "Our compensation philosophy helped a lot. Most of its principles stem from ideals described earlier: Be honest, and treat people like adults. For instance, durin…

How tall are you?

Instead of charging tuition, I wonder if employers would be willing to pay Flatiron $15K per hire as a finder/training fee. That might be a good test of demand for junior Ruby/Rail…

Option 2 physically walls off the Late Mergers in addition to mentally (in the minds of the Free Laners), making them easier to ignore. I like option 1 because it forces everyone t…

malandrew types faster than me. And has better ASCII art.

Perhaps instead of merging one lane into another, the animosity toward late mergers can be alleviated by making all lanes move. If no one feels like they are in the free lane, they…

Nice minimal design. I like the ability to read a summary before deciding to click through. I was confused at first when the main content frame was empty (like another commenter po…

I am trying to reconcile these two statements made by the author: 1) "[Scrum] provides a framework that prioritizes delivering real, working, business-quality software sprint after…

The post, and the one it comments on [1], bothers me for a few of reasons. One: As an MS in CS holder I certainly worry that my degree is perceived as worth less, if not outright w…

I have a MS in CS but, before enrolling in a graduate program I took 30 credits of undergraduate CS courses at a local university as part of a certificate program. My BA in Journal…

Say I wanted to know your salary. I could start a secret and enter the minimum minus one before I send you the link. Is there a way to prevent this sort of scenario while letting t…

This is a neat idea. I like that you didn't choose to implement another todo list in order to experiment with a new framework. I think the wording of "continue a secret" is a littl…

What is ethical software? Is netcat bad because you can do bad things with it?

> I don't think they mean to suggest that all users "enjoy" advertising, I don't think so either :-) I was merely poking fun at the way they co-opted the entire Internet in an atte…

They did include you: > and the millions of consumers who enjoy the diversity of content and services the internet provides (Ignore the small-i internet typo). Do they mean to sugg…

> We’ve heard people say that RSS is a thing of the past, and perhaps in its current incarnation it is, Does the author mean RSS as a format or aggregated feeds being "a thing of t…

The non-beta-site version of the article is here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/the-gene-machine...

I'd like to see all of the nutrition information encoded in a bar code so I can scan it with my smart phone. That would make tracking my nutrition easier (provided there was also a…

"If nothing else happens in the next little while, I will eventually buy something else and enter my credit card information again, but I simply do not like this way of not address…

spam. it's just a fake article to sell their product.

tl;dr: "you’re going to have to figure out for yourself"

> Can a systems administrator really go back into programming? Of course. You could start by availing yourself of the many opportunities to program as part of your sysadmin job. Th…

I have no idea why but, that thought just stuck with me. I rode a bike through there a few months ago. The outer Philly burbs are indeed a nice place to live.