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Joining the illustrious ranks of Spotify, Hulu, Netflix, Zappos and countless other great Internet companies. Yes, I am slightly bitter about this.

Am I the only person around here who actually likes LaunchPad? It integrates so well with Apple's lovely touchpad. Map it to your favourite hot corner, and suddenly all your apps are much easier to …

IMO Vim is highly overrated, and its only selling point is that it can run in a console.

Gotta love artificial scarcity.

Same way. The user settings are stored in a few plain-text JSON files. Also I would hardly call .vimrc files "simple".

Awesome stuff. I would dare say the command palette alone makes ST2 better than Vim.

If the file uses tabs, at least you can choose to display the indentations as 2 spaces or 4 spaces. If the file uses spaces, you don't get to choose.

It works perfectly for me in Chrome in Win XP. Probably a hardware glitch.

I can't design or implement clever algorithms. I must be the best programmer in the world!

There are even more non-CS graduates who suck at those three! Snark aside, the thing about being self-taught is that, it is easy to miss out on important concepts, simply because nobody told you about…

>"I consider myself to be a self-taught programmer." Weird way of showing off his degree.

The correct thing to do would be to mandate that all "e-commerce sites" need to enforce a "reasonable level of security", where the quoted items are defined by some professional body.

It is said that governments should legislate for results, not actions. This is a very clear example why.

The problem with cloud access is that you need to have a reliable Internet connection to benefit from it. I live in a 3rd-world country where 3G connections are either expensive or unreliable. Also, w…

I'm more worried about the fact that they only have up to 16GB storage, for an Android phone that doesn't support removable storage. I mean, even the iPhone 4 has 32GB!

Because I would have trouble paying the bills. The demand for software engineers in Malaysia is...lacking.

Good riddance to carriers making 6,500% profit off of texts. [0] http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1001/gallery.americ... …

Exactly. The headline should read "Consumers set to save $54(?) billion by 2016".

On the flip side, there's never been a more terrible time to be a 54-year-old developer.

I think we're starting to see the opposite. A lot of pragmatic people who are arguing that shipping crappy products is a good thing. I like this article. It provides some balance to the wave of "wor…

I thought it was a Bing thing at first.

Git, as in git-scm yes. I cringed when I read that. EDIT: Just read their website. It really does stand for "gift tips". My foot is now firmly in my mouth.

I think the point is that villagers from those rural areas can generate power the old-fashioned way, by burning fossil fuels.

I totally get this. To me, the ability to call your own shots is one of the most underrated perks of any job.

You are absolutely correct. People absolutely do get hurt when they are discriminated against. As a second-class citizen in my country, I truly understand this. The point I was trying to make was that…

He began his career predicting baseball scores, so I guess that's more useful?

This is the first I've heard of this. How does Harvard penalize Asians?

This, right here, is an excellent example of why institutionalized racism is a terrible thing. In any other situation, universities would be clamoring to have a student of such calibre study at their …

To tech companies everywhere: If you're finding it hard to find talent in Singapore, you should seriously consider looking in Malaysia. Here we have a glut of talent, costs are hell of a lot cheaper t…

It's true, software totally doesn't help with design at all. That's why no respectable car company uses computer-aided design, or computer-aided simulations.