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I wanted to learn a little more about the company, so I clicked on the "about Mahalo" link at the bottom of most pages. http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo How many other web companies se…

Well, that's funny, I also worked in the amazon for several months at a time, away from the internet (in eastern ecuador). I can't say I missed it -- no, I couldn't browse the web,…

why do the votes on this obscure website signify anything?

Most of them were in high school or junior high, and too busy being teenagers and worrying about the things teenagers normally worry about. All they are asking for is the same oppo…

> the authors wanted to design away some common developer errors, which average developer cannot overcome. Even the best programmers make mistakes. When writing for an embedded pla…

"And yes, Java (and Windows) was designed to use low-skilled labor." This is an assertion I've seen repeated many times, but never with anything to back it up. Do have any evidence…

What's funny about it?

I'm not sure I'd describe them as healthy, exactly. They do place a strong emphasis on using good ingedients, but portion sizes are huge -- a chicken burrito is more than 1,000 cal…

Chipotle's specialty, San Francisco burritos, aren't Mexican, they are northern Californian :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_burrito

No. It is much, much more sophisticated than that. See this message by Mike Pall, LuaJIT's author for the details: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58908

On a computer, you have to also be concerned about error propagation and efficiency, and that can take what might be a very beautiful, simple solution on paper and explode it into …

I am 34, have used one at work for about one year, and love it.

I have used an exercise ball instead of a chair for the past year or so and really like it. I tend to have a lot of nervous energy, and being able to bounce on the ball while still…

Toyota has had a long history with circular looms. Sakichi Toyoda invented the circular loom in 1906. The profits from his automatic loom business were used to start his son's auto…

That is correct, but the game does use it for a lot more than just scripting. ps: Lua, not LUA -- it's the Portuguese word for moon, not an acronym :)

Much of World of Warcraft's user interface is written in Lua, and I'm not sure I'd classify WoW as an obscure example.

This is a very neat idea, but the lack of support for latex, or any other way to create mathematical expressions is a bit of a letdown.

The first hard drive my father bought was 5mb. It connected to an Atari 800 through the Atari's 4 joystick ports. It's price was somewhere around $2000. That fact is utterly meanin…

Yes, I'm sure he's doing quite well, although I don't think it's a given that he measures his success by the size of his paycheck. As far as a positive portrayal of an engineer -- …

What I don't understand is why Intel didn't use the real Ajay in their ads. Here's someone who they are supposedly honoring as a rock star, and yet when it comes to the ads, instea…

I'm not sure I'd be so smug. http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9611/01/e.coli.poisoning/ http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2006/september/

According to the article the bacteria can also contaminate surfaces in the kitchen. For instance, if you form hamburger patties on a cutting board, even if you wash the board with …

I don't think that's Craig Newark's metric for success.

How many Acorn offices did these guys actually visit in total? How many times were they able to get advice from Acorn staffers, and how many times were the filmers reported to auth…