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Do people actually do this? I've seen donate buttons before, even clicked them a few times, but I never imagined anyone received a sizable chunk of money this way.

Wow. I've never really read much about Stallman in the past, but he really comes across as an arrogant jackass in most of those answers.

There's nothing wrong with that. In that context, "a water" is the same as "a glass of water".

if I recall correctly

* Owned my own incorporated business at the age of 15 (Looking back, it was kindof dumb. It was essentially just freelancing with a shitload of paperwork attached). I dissolved it at 18 when I went to college.

* Self taught every programming language I know (Started with BASIC, then JavaScript and PHP, did some windows programming in VB, then later VB.NET and now doing asp programming in C#. I've also toyed with Objective-C/C/C++) I'm really impressed by some of the comments here. I've had a better understanding of these languages than most of my professors (which probably speaks more to the quality of my school than my programming ability)

Two chicks at the same time!</e-peen>

It said the rest went toward production of the xkcd book. I don't know if that means solely inventory and production costs, or if it includes administrative overhead as well (I would assume some)

I agree that there is a premium placed on mac products, but I would guess you are overstating it. I'd be willing to bet that the difference in price lies in the RAM. Apple uses DDR3 while most other manufacturers use DDR2. If you look on Newegg, you will see that there is a substantial price difference in the two (at least at my last check).

You can do it, its just not economical. Last time I looked the cases were pretty bulky as well, but it's been a while.

AJAX and Flash is a generic technology, telephone guided co-browsing is a specific implementation, most likely using that technology. There's a big difference there, especially when Flash and AJAX are ubiquitous on the web and the phone guided browsing is more innovative.

Not TVR, TR = Testarossa

I enjoyed the drag strip stories more than any of it...

Agreed, interesting article but horribly inaccurate title. I'm not sure if the poster was intentionally inaccurate or if he just badly misread the article.

I'd love to see Apple come out with a game console. I don't know if it would destroy 360/PS3 per say, but I think the Wii would be an easy target.

Also: Try Rope and Fly, I found it to be fairly similar and also quite addicting.

Did I read this correctly? They overrode a private API call, but then never called the method that they overrode? Or did they only call the method they overrode, and never call the private method.

I don't see why you would override a method but never call it, and if you override it, shouldn't you call [super methodX] (thereby calling the private method)?

What we really need instead is a visibility:blink; CSS property. ;)

This seems strange. I understand not volunteering the info, but if someone asks I don't see a problem with letting them know. You may not be asking for PR but you can always use it.

I remember growing up I was playing on the Internet and found a 10 chapter book online for QBASIC. I printed it out and had it scattered all over the floor, and in no time at all I was writing code that actually did things. I had never written code before and I was in elementary school (9 or 10?).

Eventually this led to html, javascript, php, VB, C#, etc. Dad wasn't real thrilled when he realized I used all of the printer ink to do this, but I'd say it was a pretty good return on his investment.

EDIT: I'd like to play with BASIC again, anyone know of a way to do that on OSX? VM?

3.07 first try, got it down to 2.35

Beat me to it. I wonder how long this has been in development in relation to that story breaking. Unfortunately, I don't believe it would matter in that case as the sender wasn't using Gmail.

A friend of mine flies 737s for one of the major airlines, and he once told me, "When I'm up in the air I don't give a damn about the 150 people behind me. I'm sure as hell going to take care of myself though, and if I make it through they don't have much choice but to follow me."

You may not be in control, but the pilot is, and he wants to make it to his destination just as much as you do.

I was brainstorming a bit about this the other day as well, but I don't have the time/resources to do anything with it. Why can't we have a digital identity that isn't attached to a particular service? If I want to change cell providers I can take my phone number with me, but if I want to switch ISPs/Email providers I have to get a new email address. It would be useful (and in the interest of competition) to provide a way to contact your identity, and you can configure your identity to dispatch messages to whatever service you happen to use at that given time (somewhat ala Google Voice maybe?)

I thought my screen was just dirty! What does it mean?

5 things you can do to come up with original content for your blog.

Would you consider 190 participants that participated by clicking on an ad to be properly selected?