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oh snap! really appreciate the bug report. we'll fix it.

1. oops. thanks for the report, we'll look into it 2. that's kind of our thing, we're gonna stick with it for a while longer :)

For $150, this conference is unbelievable. Guy Steele giving the keynote on day one, Douglas Crockford talking day two. Bradford Cross from Flightcaster, Chris Houser (Clojure), Je…

I was wholly expecting his argument to address this quote: If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enh…

I actually did a === check for just that reason, since if you define _ = {}, then passing in a real object that is {} will also return true for _ == {}

feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that GreaseMonkey scripts run on the same page, but in no way _replace_ the scripts a site serves. what, I think, Stallman envis…

I'd like to see this applied as an embeddable feature in hacker news. see who writes comments, which comments get commented on and what people really have to say before they hit th…

See http://www.sothebyshomes.com/ I know a little about the Sothebys site, as the company I work for created it, and I wrote a fair bit of the Javascript myself. The original site …

See http://www.sothebyshomes.com/ I know a little about the Sothebys site, as the company I work for created it, and I wrote a fair bit of the Javascript myself. The original site …

the trans-equatorial railway express, of course, ol chap! but, uh, (slightly) more seriously, if one big transmitter is the problem, then isn't the solution multiple small transmit…

A compiler that takes Sed programs and produces Parrot interpreter code. It was a project in a college Compilers class that I didn't take seriously enough, so I'm revisiting it to …

I'm as against censorship as the next guy, but the government is filtering content , they're not taking protocols away from us. Worst case, the government gets the backbone. Wasn't…

> But if some private school starts to produce much better students than the public system, there will be chaos. I'm a miltary brat, so I've been in and out of a half-dozen public …

while I agree that the prevailing attitude is "if you're not a hacker/programmer, use Windows, not Linux" I guess I don't really get why. Your comment on the fact that software nee…

huh, I didn't think it would be a social lesson, I was expecting something more along the lines of: use compilers and high-level languages and don't care what your object code look…

If you enjoyed learning/using sed, awk, grep and other Unix text processing utils, you'll love this: http://borel.slu.edu/obair/ufp.pdf Its called Unix For Poets and it'll show you…

I'm a developer, I've run various OS's over the years, Windows first, Mac OS X after that, and after my iBook's hard drive failed, I now run Linux on a refurbed ThinkPad. Windows w…

with all the furor, it seems like its only a matter of time until someone actually redoes this guy's interface for him.

before clicking through, I thought this was a joke judging from the url.