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Alas, email address has become the online analog to the venerable SSN.

Of course; Dropbox uses the same mechanism.

It's a British usage

I once left a comment to the effect of

// This code is pretty dense so I recommend you read the documentation first

Some months later I found a follow-up comment left by a fellow dev:

// Or you could just give up now

If I'm not mistaken, that equals 10,000 times the volume spilled by the Exxon Valdez (250k barrels).

If I were BP, I would post online detailed specs of the physics and equipment in play, in tandem with a massive cash prize for an original idea leading to the successful plugging of the leak.

I dare say Microsoft has the best IDE out there.

By the same token, has anyone noticed how difficult it has become to remove friends? Removing them requires opening each profile one-by-one and looking for a small link at the bottom of the left-most column. Even producing a master list of friends in FB is nearly impossible.

I think my chuckling might be disturbing my office mate.

I am a wannabe luddite, but... if we all read HN offline, who will contribute? It's a living breathing thing, y'all!