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I grew up in Fort Collins, and live here now after an itinerant period, and I'll say that overall the city government has always been far-sighted, a good steward of the tax money t…

I live in Fort Collins and can confirm that we were absolutely inundated with mailers, and other forms of ads.

This is definitely true for my 7 year old daughter. She's an avid reader, but even when I buy a book she is very interested in reading (typically the next in a current series) on a…

You can mostly trust Swiss people to be that honest. It doesn't work like that everywhere.

True, but it's plausible enough that 7 year-olds can connect the dots from existing or close-to-existing technologies.

We got an Echo over the holidays, and watching my 7, 5 and 3 year old daughters interact with it has given me a glimpse of what bringing home a black-and-white TV in the 50s must h…

Swiss culture is very small-c conservative, with heavy value on making rational, pragmatic decisions. It is no surprise that they have a system which reflects that, and performs we…

Right, but all those are inherent to the people of Switzerland. The same system in, say, Italy wouldn't get those results.

Yes. My nephew is a Junior and starting to look at schools and my main message to him is "wherever you can minimize your debt."

The NSA cracking the Secure Enclave is not the same as the FBI cracking the Secure Enclave.

If you've already got the SQL handy, this is pretty useful.

or very little of it for a lot of money. Website design suggests the latter In the BI market, Tableau is very much one of the low-cost, high volume players. They've done a great jo…

If you'd ever tasted poverty, you might think better about the pursuit of money.

Then you're really unfamiliar with the dynamics of domestic abuse. I'd be more surprised if violence was not the result of this.

I was able to get checked in via the United android App around 9am ET.

This would be great until one of my kids pushed it like 50 times.

Very lucid description of the technical reasons that email is a PITA.

Loveland, Longmong and Niwot are all relatively close, and have similar quality of life properties, but are quite a lot cheaper--they don't have the university, which can be a bug …

It's definitely not a suburb of Denver. It's relatively close, but it's a different place. It's a lot like Ann Arbor, Madison, or other cities of about 100k which have a large univ…

I interpret this as a signal that Tesla will be willing to enter into no-cost license agreements for companies wishing to use their technology, and won't pursue cases against compa…

It seems like there's a bot who's replying to comments with a handful of canned responses. I'd be interested if you could get the same responses from the CBA twitter/facebook accou…

And most of the most appealing-to-business sub-populations in a lot of these countries read english well enough that an English-language product captures a lot of them.

Yeah. My baseline assumption is that people need 1-3 years after graduation before just getting their heads screwed on straight--there are definitely exceptions to this, but not as…

When you say you aren't learning, are you referring only to your development as a software engineer, or are you also referring to your skills as an employee? Learning how to operat…