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a basic explanation is that by preceding a variable declaration with var creates a property on the nearest containing function This is not true, the var hoist the variable and scop…

For many people, the real return on buying a house is owning the house, not the increase in value of the property. Where I live housing is fairly inexpensive and I can't think if o…

I built a slideshow control system for a class project using nearly the same approach. A user uploads a slideshow or authors it online and connects a phone/device via a QR Code or …

The title contradicts itself, keeping the courts involved was a goal of the anti-SOPA movement.

I'm going to nitpick a bit and say this article would be better titled, "Accounting for Geeks". Over simplified, finance is more forward looking, while accounting is a reflection o…

Concluding that ideas are as valuable as execution because two poorly executed (but still executed) apps performed better than well executed seems to assume that everyone with the …

The US education system benefited for a long period where many incredibly smart women had career options basically limited to teaching and nursing. As equality improved, some of th…

TAL is one of the most impressive things to come out of Zope, after using it for years I feel dirty using a templating system allows inline programming logic. Chameleon templates i…

In high school I programmed Mortal Kombat on my TI-85, if it can't do that and can't be rooted via zshell, it doesn't count.

You mean YouTube has information on all of the photographs I've ever taken and who I've licensed them to? I don't recall making this information public, so I don't see how they cou…

Check out Pyramid, it's full featured but with a little less "magic" than Django. Though, Django is great for rapid development of content based sites.