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Re:What can I do for Mozilla? on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @10:59AM (#4636577)
The "Get Involved" page [0] mentions that already : "You don’t have to be a C++ guru (or even know what that means!) to get involved. You just have to love the Web". I guess this page is specifically for programmers.

[0] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/

Re:Pdf.js: PDF Reader in JavaScript on Friday September 14, 2012 @06:09AM (#4520958)
This is not a PDF reader but a graphics library.
Re:Bitcoin just crossed $7.00. on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:14AM (#4223297)
Care to elaborate?
Re:Twitter Completely Down on Friday June 22, 2012 @02:00AM (#4145636)
I've been looking for years for a good reference that says "human are bad at probability estimation", but this one doesn't seem to work: he's simply saying that we're very good at estimating regular risks (if I understand correctly).
Re:Backbone.js Fundamentals on Thursday April 12, 2012 @11:07AM (#3832611)
It checks for the referer to avoid inline linking[0], so this won't affect GitHub Pages.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking

Re:Ziptastic: Isn't a zipcode enough? on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @07:05PM (#3824948)
In France, Paris, Lyon and Marseille have multiple postal codes, and some postal codes are used for multiple cities (postal codes were attributed to delivery offices in 1972, and new offices now use the number of the nearest numbered office).

(And no, Ziptastic doesn't work for French postal codes.)