Related: Does anyone know of a good-quality place to go for discussion that doesn't center around news and links? Something akin to MetaFilter or HN in terms of standards, but not focused on aggregation. Are mailing lists/Usenet groups good for this?

Mailing lists, in my experience, can feature incredible discussion. I participated on one centered around a somewhat obscure literary topic for some years. You almost develop a sense of kinship.

However, mailing lists seem to be going extinct. Even back then it had a quaint, ancient feel to it.

The "Connect with Facebook" button on Stellar's dashboard appears to be broken, or at least for me, anyway. Clicking it results in a "Loading..." message that never seems to go away.

See if you're not blocking FB with AdBlock or Disconnect.

Ah, Disconnect was the issue. Thank you!

Just yesterday I used http://epub2mobi.com/ to convert a public domain ePub file to MOBI, then sent that to my Kindle's email address. It was delivered wirelessly to my Kindle. Are you sure this hasn't changed? Or is epub2mobi doing something to circumvent this?

Same for my Kindle. What's the point of this?

Judging from the tone of the post (a big section complaining about GitHub users?) I'd say in this case the problem is between chair and keyboard.

While I've never dealt with pull requests myself, I can understand the annoyance if lots of remotes are added to a repo just because a pull request was accepted from a contributor at some time in the past. I'd have to agree with the poster that patches are a cleaner way to contribute to a project and it's a shame Github hasn't some functionality built in to just send a patch to a maintainer instead of using pull requests.

It can be circumvented using coral: http://laurent.bachelier.name.nyud.net/2012/05/github-kinda-...

Only as the dropper. Presumably the other parts of the malware (libworker.so, etc.) could be repurposed and coupled with a different infection system.

Note that it's not just a "web" language. It runs on the JVM (as well as in the browser), and can be used as a more featureful Java replacement. To this end, it has very nice interop support with Java [1], helped by their similar syntax/structure.

[1] http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.0/reference/interoper...

There's a bit about it on the linked page (look for the description of "dynamic" blocks), plus a tutorial on their blog: http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2013/02/26/ceylon-in-the-browser...

The first production-ready version was released in late 2013: http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2013/11/12/ceylon-1/

The language is still relatively new, and under active development: https://github.com/ceylon