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Twitch has rapidly become the site I stay on the longest, mostly for Hearthstone and Magic the Gathering streams. It's the first time I enjoy watching a "sport" live. Just a few ho…

I've been feeling this way about testing for a while now and I'm glad that DHH wrote about it so I don't have to feel "wrong" or "embarrassed" by it anymore. I personally have gone…

How can Bitcoin ever go mainstream if you need regular people to secure their computers, remember their passwords and backup everything so wallets aren't lost?

This is not exclusive to Kuwait. I've seen several of these kinds of storefronts all over South East Asia. People use an app like "Line" to order stuff and communicate payment opti…

Because I pay my money and use my bandwidth, so that you can read the content you want.

Yes! This would allow developers to set up premium branches: http://premium-branch.org

Yes they did: https://github.com/blog/679-github-in-your-language

I have seen a lot of small shops in Thailand that feature iMac's with iTunes accounts that are loaded with apps. People go there, pick out the apps they want, leave their phone the…

I think you mean this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY

They can always sell the app and charge for updates Tweetie 2 style. Or add in new features via in-app purchases. Or they can charge for push notifications. Sparrow was selling hun…

The second biggest social network in The Netherlands (Hyves) introduced something like this in 2010. They mainly intended it to be used to pay back (small) debts to friends or rela…

This is one the reasons Hampton Catlin (the original author of Sass) created libsass, a port of Sass to C for portability. Check it out: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass

You can review it on Yelp.com: http://www.yelp.com/biz/yelp-san-francisco

The IdentityMap makes sure that there is only 1 ActiveRecord instance for a given row in the database. This basically means that calling Article.find(3) and Comment.where(:article_…

I believe that's one of the main reasons this won't be on by default. It's going to be a tradeoff, either you accept that an exception can occur after sending a '200 OK' status cod…

We think it was because of the economic crisis. The restaurant sector was hit pretty hard and that probably caused a lot of companies to stop advertising. The revenue is now back t…

We run a big online restaurant guide in The Netherlands. At the beginning of 2009, our income from AdSense (our main source of income) halved overnight and later dropped to about 2…

We were John's first customer. It was mostly an impulse buy because it was so cheap. We have a restaurant guide in The Netherlands with a dutch name (eet.nu, translates to eat.now)…