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> but I dream of the day when I can carry my whole computer in my pocket and be able to use it anywhere. Have you tried the compute stick[1]? http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en…

I'm looking forward to my first project with GO. It appears to offer a lot with minimal complexity. > Because Go has so little magic, I think this was easier than it would have bee…

I see that JavaScript has it's place in the browser but the whole back-end thing scares me. The ugly code (callbacks, etc), npm injecting only God knows what into your back-end ser…

I just changed a refrigerator, stove is basically dead, both 8 years old, Whirlpool brand. My Mom is still using the same appliances from when I was a kid. Nearly every family memb…

I'm a little shocked at this decision. The issues faced are all solved problems from PB storage to HA on server clusters even across Data centers. Good solutions do have upfront co…

A few years ago Bluecross Blueshield in Chattanooga would hire almost anyone that wanted to learn Cobol and train them, I have a friend that got in on this. I also have a relative …

One of the best hires I ever had was someone that was 50+ about 10+ years ago. He didn't have a technical background but wanted to be a programmer. It was a big risk but in two yea…

I used to use OVH and most of the time their stuff works but when it doesn't there is very little chance of their tech support figuring out what the problem is and fixing it. They …

I use nomachine, works on Linux and Windows. I have a VPN installed at all locations and the software runs behind that.

Having worked with Phone Systems for call centers and financial services for more than a decade I found this very useful. Interesting uses: You want to use sentiment analysis to au…

Hmm, kinda odd. Not sure if you are comparing this to Chrome, Safari or Edge but with those you have a lot less control over the start/speed-dial page. Use the gear icon in the upp…

What Payment Gateway are you using? If I'm not mistaken this qualifies as a micro payment (< $5) and the transactions fees can be rather high on a $2 purchase.

I have hired two to three dozen developers over the last 15 years for a fairly boring developer job (finance) in a very big city (Atlanta). Here are a few tips I had for making can…

The shocking part is the number of times: "This should never happen": 823,044 This should never happen: 16,946,357 vs. "This is screwed up": 59 This is screwed up: 876,393

I had both, the MMR and measles. Clearly the shot didn't work and nearly killed me and so did the measles. Yes a small chance but when you are in that small percentage it really st…

I nearly died from an MMR shot. I didn't read the linked doc but I can assure you people can die or have very serious complications from the MMR shot.

After seeing the title I assumed the verdict would be that MS SQL is way better. If I wrote a comparison that's how the result would end up. I've used MS SQL from 1998 and PostgreS…