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This is article is contradicting itself although it may not be so obvious. I imagine dwelling on regrets can be classified as a bullshit activity. It certainly does for me. I am su…

If you're in the United States you should call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children[1]. They already work with internet service providers to help identify unencrypt…

Now watch this question pop up on technical interviews everywhere for days because people read about it here.

> The fab (silicon manufacturing company) gives only a 5 year guarantee for the smartphone/tablet chips (with presumably some allowance). I'm not sure that bodes well for smart wat…

> Historically, Germany has always been a militaristic country who have repeatedly tried to take over the world France invaded all of Europe starting in 1803, and pretty much all o…

I think the problem with "forgiving" the debt is that 1. someone is going to pay for that debt, the debt that is owed to someone is on their balance sheet as (rapidly declining) va…

The Marshall plan was preceded by the Morgenthau plan which would have destroyed Germany's ability to ever create war again, reducing Germany to subsistence level farming. The Alli…

Pie charts are already a terrible visualization, this is way worse. You're supposed to compare the area of these half circle shaped rotated slices easily? Should have just used a b…

Honest question, wouldn't you just write a lexer with yacc/bison for a DSL? How does a full programming language act as a base for a DSL, which is usually more limited than a progr…

Well it's lack of security makes it probably not an OS you'd want run untrusted code on. Like if you made a browser for it I'm not sure it would be easy to sandbox it to protect yo…

There was recent news on the detrimental effects of general anesthesia has on the very young and old. Apparently it can be neurotoxic but healthy adults don't seem to have long las…

I don't understand the criticism, what are they supposed to say instead? When an attacked company says "we take security seriously" it's probably a statement made by someone in the…

When Digg died it was a combination of unpopular policy and a completely broken v4 upgrade that broke the site for weeks.

> Can you ignore safari and pretend it doesn't exist, and lose those customers? No. No you can't. Actually we can, and where I work we do. Never has anyone complained about it. SO …

> then the developers will simply follow the users. That didn't happen with IE6. I think the web as platform is bigger than Apple as big as it may be. It's amazing to me that you'r…

Nothing you've said here really addresses the problem discussed and really you're looking at this from the perspective of the consumer and not the developer. > Safari is nowhere ne…

Microsoft is obligated to its stakeholders (investors and employees) to capture all the value it can for the products it creates. They're not building software out of goodwill. You…

> Probably younger people with good eyes won't be able to understand the reasoning behind it ;-) Serious question, have you tried reading glasses? You don't have to just deal with …

Right why link to the TC article instead of the blog post? I don't understand it.

The 50 character limit on the first line of a commit message really bugs me. I try to stay within 50 characters but sometimes I don't care. I can't always fit what I want in 50 cha…

I don't enjoy doing anything with other people, but it's a necessity given that we need jobs to survive. I could be happy just hacking on something in a basement and never talking …

> Good programmers really enjoy talking about the details of the technology and how they solved challenging problems. I don't really enjoy talking about anything and usually do so …

If EtherPad had been GPL I have my doubts Hackpad would have ever been forked from it or if Hackpad would have even been a thing.