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That figure seems slightly exaggerated, Wikipedia states he had $9800 saved when he was 20. And that he made $175 a month from his postal route. If he started his paper route at 15…

This is why I always walk half a block to pick up a cup of coffee rather than just get one in the cafeteria (also it tastes better). For some reason taking a ten minute walk every …

Apple does not provide any API for getting the state of the modifier keys on iOS. I really think this is something they need to loosen up about if they want people to go into the p…

I think it's a great idea. But to be persistent over my entire life, there really needs to be an export option so that when smartphones are no longer around and we got neural impla…

The support for JSON is only validation, otherwise it's just like a plain text column. A better choice would be to use a hstore column, which is sort of like JSON but we different …

You can't click outside the page (ie. on the background texture) to close the modal. But it looks great!

I would just write the code to compute it to arbitrary precision and then tell the interviewer that I would test how many iterations are required and hard-code it. If they insist t…

Google Music is a javascript app and works well on the iPhone, the remote etc. all behave properly and it can play while in the background.

My bank is a lot more careful then this. I actually called them a few days ago to get a password, and they asked: * SSN? * Full name? * How long have you been with the bank? * How …

I actually use it a lot for watching subscriptions. However, it's in bad need of an update (it's ugly as sin). So I won't complain if Google releases a version on the App Store ins…

That explains how you serve the same data to that user, but the more interesting problem is: how do you propagate the changes to the rest of the users over time? Do you run some so…

With iOS 6 it's not necessary for updates, at least. Still required for installing paid apps though (which arguably it should be).

While useful, it's very dangerous in that it's serendipitous to make a commit that breaks building the project, which in the future will break building the project when checking ou…

This is why I prefer services to be with different providers. Having storage with dropbox, mail with gmail, phone with Apple etc. etc. means one service dying won't kill your entir…

Don't forget set / get, which ubiquitous in almost every language.

That's amazing since it's less than a year since the Google+ app launched.

The server tells the client it can handle SPDY through an Alternate-Protocol header. The client then makes subsequent requests over SPDY. http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol…

While that router may be beefy enough for multiple downloads. Installing an open-source firmwire degrades WAN performance a lot. I've tried a few different routers and dd-wrt / tom…

Not on mobile, which is where Facebook wants a browser.

I do use vim on a daily basis for all my remote editing needs. Just did not think of how useful all short-hands are for blind people. Thanks for mentioning it.

None of the answers were about the questions I had about how to program when you're blind. While the tools they use are interesting. I'm more concerned with how you would browse th…

What worries me is if future generations will be able to enjoy the games of today. Will it ever be feasible to emulate a PS3 to the level demanded here? Will my grandchildren in 50…

While offline?

Most people don't know that 50 mbit is 6 MB/s anyways. So there should be no issue. The main gain is that higher speeds allows new services (like HDTV over the pipe) and makes cont…