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IIRC, it was discontinued around the time Adobe switched to a subscription model. Allowing end users to add new functionalities to their programs just didn't make business sense.

Blaming one man for the rottened culture of an entire industry. The people who made the decision to withdraw money from SVB are supposed to be sophisticated. They're certainly well…

Conradish is a tool designed for teachers of foreign languages. It lets you quickly take a online news article and add definitions of words with the help of Google Translate. A goo…

Something I created for my own use because many of my unit tests rely on external resources. I would get rate-limited all the time when I use watch. Or they would fail because I fo…

Polish media is reporting that Polish vodka is running low in Japan because people are using it as a disinfectant. Is it time to start stockpiling the stuff?

I've tried Skype already. It doesn't work. 75 bucks down the drain.

I'm an American living in Europe. Right now, I'm unable to manage my American bank account as most operations require a 2FA code, which would get sent to a dead number. I'm heading…

I saw a Soyuz reentry vehicle today at the cosmonaut museum in Zhytomyr. At the bottom of the capsule there're instructions in both Russian and English for opening it. That makes s…

Sort of off topic. I still remember this project we inherited from DLI ages ago. Folks there were having difficulty with storing UTF-8 strings in JavaScript. Whenever a character g…

Because people value the convenience of Google's integrated services. Market fragmentation is unnatural in the software world. Generally, the winner takes all in a given category. …

As it's often said, the mission of journalists is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Making people feel uncomfortable is of course a lousy way of staying compe…

Given that Google and Facebook are natural monopolies, what newspapers are demanding seem fair to me. The law just levels the play field. The alternative--breaking up these Interne…

I don't know how you can export "mainlanders are locusts" to the rest of China.

I think ideology plays a larger role than profit. Many people in the American financial world are Randian extremists. They like various "sharing" services because they operate outs…

Her father is a television screenwriter. From what I've heard, test prep services in Hollywood can work miracles.

One key benefit that self-driving brings is the eliminating the need for curb-side parking. Your car can drop you off and go park itself in a hole somewhere. That opens up space fo…

Kids these days. They can't even multiple 6 by 9. And somehow that's the fault of the colleges they attend.

A software fix seems more realistic. The latest smartphones packed enough AI circuitry to be able to infer how an image should look if you were staring into the camera.