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Folks need to stop downvoting this and get back to their job applications ;)

but there is punctuation: there's one comma and two apostrophes! everything we need to comprehend, nothing more correctly using those tells me it was a stylistic choice not to use …

NPM supply-chain attacks spread really quickly. If a popular NPM package was compromised and included a copy.fail exploit, it would make lots of systems vulnerable to root privileg…

I like these product names :) keen to give tailgator a try

Yeah when I read that they "started this journey in March of 2024 and...completed it in January of 2025" I was like :o

for (; counter I think the JVM would optimise away this loop because it doesn't do anything. e.g. if the loop optimisation method is to unroll the loop into 1000 inline statements,…

Unless you're Australia, where we shut down our geothermal trials after some early success. Ignore those rocks that are already hot, let's keep digging up these black ones and burn…

I didn't know that, but it's cool, and I think shows that Microsoft had a healthy culture. If you can laugh at yourself, you can learn and grow. Companies aren't a monolithic hive-…

Ah yes, we call them BUAs

Good point, I should have clarified that it's two specific vaccines. I can't edit the submission now.

What [future gigantic corporation] is this the [first small product] of?

After Google Plus was released, Google changed its search syntax slightly so that you now need to "quote" mandatory terms instead of prefixing them with a + symbol. http://waxy.org…

http://theyrule.net/ This is pretty old now (2000-ish?) but is a pretty great graphical and interactive demonstration of how interlinked the big corporations' boardrooms are. Check…

I enjoyed that Norvig listed being co-recipient (along with 6 billion others) of Time's Person of the Year award in 2006!

"Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced…

"Everyone else thought they were really too young to cope with adult responsibilities" If you word it like this, the emphasis of 'really' is moved to 'too young' but the sentence's…

But then the Ctrl+Shift+T feature to reopen closed tabs wouldn't work so well. Try it, you can reopen closed tabs as far back as you like; it's pretty awesome and has saved me more…

I found it easier to pick up visually as well, and thus more difficult to hide from anyone who may be trying to see it. On the other hand it's really hard to describe your gesture …

Microsoft didn't realise how important the internet was going to be until after Windows 95 was released, and built their own online service called MSN that was comparable to AOL. T…

Looks useful! I thought the screencast was a bit slow-paced though, the project's homepage is concise and informative. http://xrefresh.binaryage.com/