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Thanks for the contrarian perspective. Sure, there's the pain of dealing with drivers and settings and tweaks with Windows, even with Win7, but it's certainly not any worse than ge…

> What if the nightmare imagined by George Orwell in 1984 were real? What if you had to live in a country where radio dials were fixed to a single government station? Where the sur…

Writing a book on Modern Perl is nuts. As the author of this post points out, there have been about twenty releases since Perl 5.6, when the book was published. Features like the "…

Agreed. I assume this is font ligature magic, like when you type "Zapfino" in Zapfino?

The issue is less about the UN trying to take control of Internet authority, it is more about what seems to be growing discontent with the US having all of the control. See the Chi…

I'm always amazed that a country which refuses to properly educate its people in math and science is able to pull off technological feats such as jamming GPS and distributing malwa…

Agreed. I tried for a few days before giving up. Unless you're happy with Chosen's default options you'll spend days trying to customize it.

I was going to get details from status.heroku.com but that's down too.

That's it. This thread sold me. Installing zsh now!

Agreed. Facebook has turned into a stream of blabber and pictures of people's kids (no offence). What is NOT noisy is: * Path (just my close friends) * Pair (just my girlfriend) * …

Backbone has pretty much changed the way I write JavaScript apps.

It's not soviet but if you're interested in this you should also see all of the programs used in the Apollo and Gemeni missions: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html

I think it's impressive that an algorithm can crack the CAPTCHAs. I get them wrong most of the time.

Smart. Facebook nailed photos and now they need to nail mobile. No wonder they bought Instagram.