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Yeap. One of my roommates from college worked at HP during the Itanium development.. it was great on paper but customers didn't want it or need it. The bigger picture is throwing e…

I used Authorize.net circa 2010 at a large cell phone manufacturer for processing micropayments. They changed their API without notification and it broke payments for a few days, a…

In the US, a new DeLorean isn't all that expensive compared to typical "jelly-bean" vehicles that are the most common. Back in 2005, I narrowed down a vehicle purchase decision to …

Yeap. That's where I sent my roommate from college to learn performance driving; a Korean dude with a CS degree from an UC turned California highway patrol (CHP) officer. (How many…

echo $NICK | s/80mph/88mph/

FWIW, Banky's hotel in Bethlehem: 182 Caritas Street Bethlehem, Palestine http://www.walledoffhotel.com reception@walledoffhotel.com https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?whereami=1…

US police can also be videotaped stealing money for their personal enrichment and not be prosecuted. https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accu...

"Lying" is dishonest clickbait. Presenting a mobile browser with an UA identical to a desktop one is standard practice.

There ought to be a standard "caniuse" features discovery API rather than parsing UA's or oodles of platform quirks/detection "magic."

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They'll surely find evidence h. erectus ran Android in an archaic app store up until 100k BCE. Tablet computing way back.

Dash 5.x jumped the shark with a completely broken UI/UX. Is there something that is usable by regular people rather than John Ive-types who decide taking away ports "emperor's new…

Startups co-founders/first-employees pay less and have fewer perks, but no one can hide in their own cube corner at that size and have deliver excellence if they want to survive. I…

Thank you, kind person.

A billion-dollar idea: a combination pseudo-outrage, crybully, political correctness, troll, flaming and keyboard warrior pre-filter. And for 2.0: a micropayment cost to comment th…

I wonder if it closes before it opens, and then the hours change at random? Maybe you even leave before you arrive while spending 3 hours seeing the whole thing? It should be unstu…

Disclaimer: I don't subscribe neatly to a particular political label. Commercial social media platforms have way too much power to put their thumb on the scale, i.e., manufacture c…

0. Embrace 1. Extend 2. Extinguish (or at least Exhaust Energy on Extraneous complexity through Engineering design-by-committee feature creep) (But never Excellent Enginerding, unl…

If you have substantial liquid wealth, the best ways to hide it include art (portable/small objects with stable/increasing prices) and foreign real estate in desirable areas in mun…

At first, I thought it said edible PDF, but I didn't think a closed format would taste very good.

Self-sabotage and buddy-sabotage are pernicious flaws of attitude, belief and habits that exist in all people to varying degrees. This baggage is likely the greatest source of fail…

Right/left is the best divide-and-conquer wedge issue found so far, exploited by media corporatists to atomize people further from each other in the name of money, while the real d…

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell