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>Good content is not easy. Especially when the scuttlebutt is that they're not going to be doing anything more risque than PG-13. It's true that not every good TV show needs consta…

In fairness to Facebook (which is a phrase I never thought I'd type) Whatsapp's Signal-derived end-to-end encryption was implemented almost a year after Facebook bought it. Of cour…

True, I didn't mean to imply officially-sanctioned engineers are better than developers in all things, or that one can't be both, or that glacially slow and careful programming is …

Same phenomenon for me in southern Ontario. My ISP (Start.ca) is using Rogers' infrastructure. Evenings equal poor streaming video performance on all sites despite an otherwise-per…

If Apple does adopt RCS, it's likely only as a fallback for iMessage, much like SMS today. And rather than Apple abandoning control over their messaging platform, I'd sooner bet on…

As a Canadian with a lot of iron rings in the family, it's always so weird to see the phrase "software engineer". It just doesn't feel like it's been earned.

Apples to oranges. Javascript is an open-standard language, not a closed black box runtime like Flash.

And even if one can afford Apple hardware, I'd bet on there being significant overlap between the "has keen interest in security" and "likes to fix own hardware" crowds. I could ea…

As someone who dealt professionally with security issues from about 2000 onwards, many involving Flash 0-days, I have about as much fond remembrance of Flash as I do for polio or s…

That was actually quite informative, thanks for the link.

>FastMail support is worse than Google and has fewer features. Actually I use Fastmail, and am a big fan. I've never had an issue reaching support. Of course I've rarely had to, th…

>Needless to say, never using a Google service again. The only Google services I bother with are search, maps, youtube (in a non-logged-in viewing-only capacity, not a posting-my-o…

Because you have a very accurate nose.

Agreed. I'm one of those oddball half-GenX/half-millennials, but I spend a lot of time around Gen Z's. (Not in a creepy way, I'm just the eldest cousin in a huge close extended fam…

I think it's because those with political influence who espouse xenophobic views also tend to dislike the poor. "Taxpayer" as an identity has connotations of "only the landed gentr…

"Do you have anything light?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqjsyfbcd4

>the messy parts of the UEFI ecosystem The jokes practically write themselves.

>Citizen sounds like a pretty awful word choice in a country with so many non-citizen immigrants though (and non-immigrants for that matter). It's sound like they're deliberately b…

I think a lot of the entrepreneurs here are having difficulty in competing on the open market with the FAANGs and not-quite-as-big-as-FAANGs-but-still-big companies. They don't rea…

>We are not consumers, we are people. I often base my vote, when all the candidates in a given election have similar policies, on how they refer to people. Use of "Consumers" loses…

Morals and integrity are foreign concepts to marketers. I used to think that marketing had a place, if properly used. After working with marketers for a decade, I just consider the…

>My go to has been "ceo@example.com" for years. I think I may make the effort to learn how to make a Firefox extension to automate this. Scrape "about us", "contact", etc. page in …

Are you asking for a hypothetical scenario where I was the web developer in question having to stand up to some marketing drone? Take a closer look at the key phrase in my post: "m…

Ah, but most other countries don't share a border with Iran. Wouldn't it be a funny old coincidence if Turkmenistan's economy just happened to completely collapse, and the US saved…

I like you.