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The problem is that the average textbook sells a small run of copies, and doesn't benefit from economies of scale. Unfortunately, it seems that the professors and the publishers bo…

This is asking for speculative work on an awe-inspiring scale, and I find it brazenness to be a bit hard to swallow. Arrington wants other people to build something he wants, and w…

Um. I wish I had an excuse. For some reason it just clicked and I never thought about it, although it is clearly and irrefutably wrong. Thanks for pointing that out, its been fixed…

Actually, it works in Opera, Safari, Firefox and in Internet Explorer (using the excanvas). Its still evolving a bit, and I hope to add more statistical analysis to it, but its a b…

I think the key in my statement was easy copying . The inability to copy and paste clearly frustrates people, seeing as its the number one complaint against Scribd. But thanks for …

I'd pretty much guarantee that its real purpose is to serve as a simple but pleasant portfolio piece for a designer or developer, and that purpose isn't defeated by it being copyab…

With all due respect to their work, I don't think that its an IE7 problem.

First, the first amendment has absolutely no relevance here, since it is a restriction being placed on government, not on individuals. There is a chronic habit to misinterpret this…

I think "is expected to generate" is much more appropriate than "generating" since it doesn't exist yet. I would have been suitably more interested if it was real instead of a pred…

The person who runs that site is top notch at creating interesting or controversial headlines, but usually delivers a rant at best or--in this case--nothing at all. As best I can f…

Its actually not that bad, but it really depends on your browser. I've been throwing together (meaning not at all finished) a tower defense game using it ( http://www.willarson.com…

Most up-to-date Markdown implementations support footnotes (specifically the Python one does for certain, but the syntax has been around for a while). The syntax is pretty easy. [^…

I am interpreting this question to mean "How is posting this link different then posting a new topic on HN with the same text?" (Please stop me if I have simply misinterpreted a sn…

It seems the crux of this post is that "while I don’t know the exact donation totals, I bet the site has raised a thousand dollars in a couple days." Or to summarize slightly: some…

In mentioning that its "the new things that give you an edge," are you suggesting that web2py is one of those new things? In what non-trivial way do you feel that it differentiates…

Trying to go to their website using Camino (I realize that its working for Firefox and other more popular browsers, was just kind of surprised): javax.servlet.ServletException: age…

Woah woah woah. First, calm down and remember to breath: its gonna be okay. Next, you need to figure out why the company you are working at has allowed you to hang around for six m…

Slightly unrelated, but the word 'nampa' means to pick up women, but also has a second meaning of 'to be shipwrecked'. An infinite wealth of puns are available between the two.

This is a topic that used to bother me before I graduated and left academia behind. When I attended a private middle and lower school, parents would call my mother and ask her how …

I think that portfolio's of software get messy in exactly the same way that joint research papers get messy: how do you figure out who did the work? That said, I think you're right…

Good article, but its unfortunately also a good example of how misspelling and using the wrong words can really hurt public writing.

It isn't necessarily a coincidence, but couldn't it be reasonable explained that when the first few went down it lead to a higher level of strain and utilization of the remaining c…

Although refutation by dictionary is a valued technique, I think its invalidated here by the capital A in Agile.

I would take the networking class. My first reason is that it is a survey course, and networking is a massive topic. Its helpful to have a wide exposure to different parts of it. O…