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The author was a former VP at Rogers Communications, Inc, a Canadian ISP. https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-engelhart-591a204

The Mozilla Organization has a partnership with Yahoo! to make them Firefox's default search engine [1]. Firefox was created by the Mozilla Organization which was created by Netsca…

If you miss Ted Dziuba's writing at Unvoc you will thoroughly enjoy this article

Also the author seems to have missed that this char limit is changing. In Python, for example, an official style guide update in 2013 [1] allows for 100 char line length. [1] https…

I would have to imagine that a massive corporation like Amazon has automatic detection of issues with tier 1 services like search.

As a Bronx resident this sounds very exciting. As a jaded consumer of modern media this sounds suspiciously one-sided. What are the downsides? It doesn't seem to generate revenue o…

TL;DR Modern medicine is over! Get to the zombie apocalypse shelter! Not really though; everything scary in this article is either wrong, exaggerated or both. Ars Technica explains…

> While it is technically, theoretically possible that their system is open to the introduction of these biases but does not actually exhibit those biases in the aggregate, it is a…

I took "systematic bias" to have similar meaning to "systematic error" meaning that there is a constant shift on every data point. Admitting the possibility of bias is very differe…

Honestly this is more likely due to the actual outcome being too complex for a headline. "Facebook denies systematic bias but admits their current process allows bad actors to appl…

The central thesis here is that APIs should be treated like GUIs. Make them as intuitive as possible to minimize brain space waste (ie. memorization of non-transferable, vendor-spe…

> Why on earth isn't there just a generic keyboard-shortcut preference where I can control every possible browser action and its associated keyboard shortcut? It turns out this ext…

Analysis from Chrome devs here https://codereview.chromium.org/1854963002 Though I am a frequent user of backspace in Chrome I'm inclined to agree with their decision. Almost no on…

I'm embarassed to say I haven't even heard of MobaXterm. This is going on my remote-work rig tonight.

That sounds like a scenario for long-form work over a mobile network (eg. on a laptop through a mobile hotspot). Mosh from a laptop is a no-go for me because there's no Windows-bas…

"Why use this instead of GNU screen?" The low latency features really set this one apart. The smart local echo (it underlines unconfirmed predictions) make it much nicer to use ove…

I second the asyncio endorsement. I started using Python 3 just to try out asyncio and never went back. It works like a dream.

path=$foo/$bar if [[ $path =~ [[:space:]]*/[[:space:]]* ]]; then echo NOPE else rm -rf $path fi

The title is a bit click-baity and misleading. DevOps isn't dead it's just becoming centralized. The rub seems to be that quality managed services are widely available and affordab…

Home Assistant user here, too. After my house got robbed it was either $1000-$2000 for commercial, cloud-locked systems or Home Assistant with $200 worth of X10 devices and IP came…

Also great is the wow factor when you show off the mobile interface. Material design is a big time crowd pleaser.

TL;DR Man plays a single Civ II game, locked in a 3-way stalemate, for 10 years (2000 in-game years). He asks reddit for advice on ending the stalemate, posting his savegame. Quick…

Maybe its a cross product? If we assume "Welcome" is a 2x1 matrix and "11" is shorthand for [1 1]

Believe it or not, you don't even have to change your workflow to try out python 3. If you're on a Red Hat/Ubuntu-based system just add a '3' to everything (python3, pip3, pdb3, et…

I've seen this go badly even when the first responders are the ones configuring the alerts. For example those getting paged for slow app response times want DBAs to be paged for sl…