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National Grid | Remote from NY, MA, ME, CT, PA, NJ, RH, NH | Full-Time National Grid is an energy company but currently highly committed to a large digital transformation, along wi…

Discord is one crisis away from imploding if they don't get serious about moderation tools and parental controls. They're turning a blind eye to the issues around tweens/teens inte…

The way we currently do it doesn't work, but that doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile thing to do! If we were all slightly less lazy and were willing to separate things more li…

It's very worth it. I can't find the link now, but there was a great article about traditional wier/retention pond building in Africa that both provided water but also helped recha…

Shorter range, proprietary setup/configuration process, cycle IDs (crashing some android bluetooth stacks). They really want you to pay for the backend - wouldn't be surprised if t…

You can definitely get the hardware for Feel free to hit me with beacon questions, I've got a bunch of varieties sitting on my desk right now.

The other one on iOS is edge-dragging to go back/forward in the navigation stack. Neither of these things is -hard- to implement with current tech either!

I'd pledge in a second if there was any mention of fixing the rules that made it boring to watch in the first place. Everything became a wedge or a spinning can o' doom.

Great news, I've avoided touching my iPad reader because of the whole scraping issue to get at some of the data. Now I can justify updating for iOS8 + the new API. (just hope it ge…

There are TJs in Pennsylvania, and they can't sell alcohol at all. It might be a factor but not the overriding one.

It's been viable for at least a year in other forms. (Have a small demo system) However, there are some technical and social challenges associated with such a database. Most notabl…

Fixing broken projects is a super valuable skill to have and can be rewarding in its own way. I've reached the point where I hardly ever say "whoever wrote this was an idiot" and s…

Very curious about this too. 198 points when I returned to the discussion and it's not displayed anywhere in the first 5 pages.

What's going on with the moderation here? Nearly 200 points and it's vanished from the first 120 results of the site.

Xcode still has some weird bits, but it's greatly improved lately. I well remember cursing the crashing multiple times a day. There are some wonderful additions to it I wish Apple …

Same thing I thought about! Strategically it was a terrible decision. Why build a native OS/2 app when a win app will run on both.

I want this, but: The product is not explained. It actually took a bit of clicking to finally find the setup process under documentation. Minor nit, your blog header doesn't link b…

Does your manager know that so much of these meetings a redundant? A good manager insulates other employees from this kind of meeting brutalization and avoids adding to it if at al…