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Is coderwall some sort of troll site, like the the Swedish Lemon Angels recipe in How to Play With Your Food?

I keep seeing bad advice posted there and popping up on HN.

> I've been very hard on Flat UI in the past (and still dislike extreme Flat UI) but I've decided to embrace it after--

--after Apple declared it to be in style.

No, that's not what you meant, but it rings so true in the tech buzzosphere.

cue-cat didn't retail for $1500

Wouldn't public safety be better served if the police granted him grand-jury-style immunity from "using his statements as evidence" in exchange for getting information about other bombs?

If they cared so much about public safety, they should be willing to disregard a bit of testimony to get it.

It's insane that confessions are admissible at all really, since they are almost always false.

Indeed. " The commitment to this rule is so strong that the Supreme Court has recognized only one exception to the Miranda rule"

So, not much of a commitment at all. I am so committed to my wife that I only recognize one exception to my marriage vows: if I get a chance with a really attractive woman, then not only can I do it, but I can charge my wife for the cost of dinner.

Yahoo engineers may have verified that none of the users of these products have a vacation scheduled in Yahoo Calendar, which will presumably be the last property to shut down, for this reason.

Interesting that it has a Linguistics section, as in the International Linguistics Olympiad, but not seen on a modern SAT or high school classroom. http://www.ioling.org/problems/samples/

I suppose that morphed in to the "logic puzzles" found on the modern LSAT.

It would be interesting if someone other than the author submitter had that opinion. Nice astroturf attempt, though, alexwg/alexvr.

"Keep your options open" is also called "analysis paralysis" when it is unwise.

Today's effort was actual security.

What's the maximum reasonable spend to catch a bomber, for an efficient force? $1M? $100k?

A large part of the expense was due to the successful effort to apprehend him without killing him or bystanders.

Tweets aren't precisely geolocated, so that's not really relevant.

Simple experiment. Make a website with 3 buttons, and invite 10K people to visit. Make strong assurances of anonymity: and independent 3rd party will select the participants, logs will be destroyed, etc:

* Bill my credit card $20, donate to a pool to send to http://www.againstmalaria.com or somesuch. * Spend $20 of the researchers' money on fresh vegetables, and throw them in the trash. * Do nothing.

People who use the terms "champagne socialist" or "bleeding heart liberal" as insults are fellow rich people who feel socially threatened by the people they insult.

Before when? Maybe a few years ago was better. But 50 years? 100? No way.

And the rest of us are well within our rights to not tolerate those people.

No one is immune to everything forever -- not even billionaire Steve Jobs. your friend wasn't poor before his seizure, but the seizure knocked him down.

And of course several countries in the world do provide for the disabled. Even the US provides some support.

Google Groups website is broken, so that thread is not readable.

2. https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/django-nonr...

Haiku Challenges Expectation of Cadence Counting Syllables

Incorrect example. Your $4000 hand-carved peruvian phone was worth that, since you bought it.

Changing a boy's name to Sue, however, is known to lead to very positive outcomes. There was even a poem/song written about it.

Google Now shows unsolicited restaurant recommendations. They might not be paid (I don't know), but they are certainly ads.

My Chromebook and Nexus are full of ads.

If they are hearing the same complaints murmured (muted, more anonymized and filtered) inside the company, but saying, "whatevs, they'll stay for the paycheck", and people start walking away from the paycheck and announcing it, it might sink in.

Of course, when leaving Google for Microsoft, it's hard to claim that culture/mission/vision are really the reason for leaving, as opposed to: MSFT offered $X,000, and GOOG managers said "you're not worth that to us"

Why does "sudo -k" still exist, when it has obvious risks and is superseded by "sudo -K".

Why does 'sudo -k' not check to see if a timestamp exists, and avoid creating one if it doesn't yet exist?

That's what parent said.

I am curious if all the "free-then-ads" defenders in this thread are (a) purveyors of "free-then-ads" businesses defending their business. (b) young or jaded people who really have grown accustomed to this tactic

Option (a) is Annoying, unpleasant, and bordering on astroturfing, but understandable

Option (b) is sad.

Amazon really doesn't have any competitors in the mail order business. Any would-be competitors are partners/clients.

Right, that's what "bait and switch" means.