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Think it's funny that the person who drew the Pizza Hut logo for Domino's is considered more accurate than the person who drew a domino.

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork." Seldom Smith, from The Monkey-Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.

There are other needs for a shortened URL. Perhaps you have to hardcode a link in code and don't want to be tied to a page whose contents may break. If you control your URL shorten…

I wish instead of a protocol improvement that focused solely on network resources, the next version will also include improvements for users such as encryption by default and doing…

What tools would you suggest for doing this? Or even what algorithms to implement for doing this sort of work?

Open your user key-bindings (in OSX this is Sublime Text -> Preferences -> Key Bindings - User), and put [ { "keys": ["ctrl+tab"], "command": "next_view" }, { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+…

Newsblur[0] is a great open-source[1] feed-reader that not only beats Feedly in ease of use, but also has a bunch of great additional features over the standard RSS reader, with ap…

11 days? Two weeks? A month? Never? Not every company values this sort of feedback from their users. Some go out of their way to prosecute those that break their services this way.…

It doesn't say anything about her backtracking. It says she defends the program and that her "reform" bill maintains the status quo.

Another great Bloom Filter library not mentioned in this article is Bitly's implementation on GitHub[0]. It has the best of both worlds: a C implementation and higher-level wrapper…

"97% of people recommend One Month Rails" is also a little misleading. I'm willing to bet 97% of people don't know what One Month Rails is.

Thanks for the quick response. I keep playing with this and it's very cool. I'm looking forward to being able to put those pictures back up. Congrats on the launch again.

I'd love to be able to add the same photo to more than one album. This seems like the sort of thing that's a natural advantage of digital photos over regular ones. Let's say I was …

I am one of those programmers: I have no real idea how a compiler goes about its business, my university does not offer an accessible compiler class (only for grad students and ver…

This story is not relevant to the privacy issues at hand. This is distracting from the conversation we should be having.

Right, but couldn't they expand the pane but leave the text at the same ratio? The way it is now, the right-hand scrollbar leaves the right side of the window[1], which is kind of …