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> Because a social network without people isn't. Then the question becomes, why support app.net over Twitter?

Codemage's comment neatly explains Facebook's current predicament though. All of us suck at valuation it seems.

Not nearly enough, by all accounts.

"Easy to write, hard to read". Perl's influence on Regex shows. Which is fine in most cases. I always wonder what regexes would look like if they were derived from Python instead.

A typical regex looks like this: \b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b Which is also what happens when a cat walks across the keyboard.

The ability to parse text quickly is invaluable when writing code. I would say it's a must to take your coding skills to the next level.

Sorry this wasn't clear, I actually meant Apple as an example of what you said. Apple under Steve Jobs famously refused to issue dividends in spite of shareholder pressure, instead choosing to reinves…

International shipping to Malaysia is almost definitely not free.

As a Malaysian, I know more people here who use Amazon.com than those who use Lazada.com.my, even though Amazon doesn't technically serve our country. Branding and the first-mover advantage are very i…

The one issue I have with using Keychain as the primary password manager is that I lose all my passwords when I cross over to Windows or Ubuntu.

Apple comes to mind.

The tips written there should (hopefully) be fairly obvious to seasoned programmers, I agree. However, I find that this is particularly helpful in that it based on an actual working code base, instead…

>"I hate to be that guy bitching without offering any constructive criticism,..." No you don't. You love being that guy. If you hated being that guy, you could have, you know, written something …

Am I the only person who thought that this is about "Nuclear waste" issuing "freeze permits"?

I am currently working on factory automation software running on the 1.1 framework...in Windows 2000.

This is almost exactly my life story, only that I haven't reached my 30s yet. Reading about all the 18- or 19-year-olds forming million-dollar startups really does make me feel like an underachiever s…

From what I last understand, VxWorks, being an actual RTOS , has faster and more consistent latency rates than any Linux embedded system. For systems which require a guaranteed response time, such …

How appropriate that a space agency will be using SUN workstations =)

Personal theory: The hardware used has to be low powered, and be able to withstand physical and radiological abuse. Such a system probably will not post the fastest clock cycles, what with power consu…

I once had to reset the password of my stock trading account. All they needed for verification was my home address. I am also pretty leery of putting anything online.

As long as you have a recovery USB, you'll be fine.

That was the first thing that struck me as well. This article didn't even pretend to be objective.

I think you need to read the article again...

This serves as a nice reminder that programming is not about the language, design patterns, hardware architecture or whatever. The most important aspect of programming is the way in which it improves …

What should be the correct way to go about this?

Probably to prevent match-fixing.

When Windows has a command line tool (Powershell, not their crappy native CLI) that's powerful and like 100x easier to comprehend, you know the Unix command line is due for a disruption.

If we are going with 7 Habits metaphors, "learning the bicycle" would be like doing Quadrant 2 tasks, the Important but not Urgent tasks. Activities which don't bring anything in the short term, but w…

Having worked in an industry which uses these things a lot, I can personally attest that neodymium magnets are dangerous . Somebody I know nearly had his little finger crushed when it was sandwiched …