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Thanks for an amazing game! It provided one of our all-time top TTRPG experiences, and years later we're still laughing about what went down.

For the large majority of Canadian residents there is nothing technically stopping them from traveling to the US for healthcare, paid out of pocket. Some people do that, in some si…

The notarization process is super painful, no doubt. I had originally written shell scripts to automate the process for my company, but recently switched to the excellent command l…

Java is not commonly used for consumer desktop applications, where it often is necessary/desirable to invest in fully native apps for Windows and MacOS. But desktop Java is quite c…

I’d like to recommend checking out Numenera, from Monte Cook Games. It’s kind of a sci-if/fantasy mashup. It takes place on Earth one billion years in the future. Eight great civil…

One downside of getting US citizenship is that if you later move to another country (your original country or a third country), you will obligated to continue to file US income tax…

Thanks for posting this recommendation, I've been looking for a static blogging tool like this.

Secure websockets (wss://...) works fine for my company's service that runs behind haproxy (version 1.6).

I love Eclipse for working in Java, and I love IntelliJ for working in Kotlin. My impression is that people who don't like IDEs haven't put the effort into figuring out how to use …

Here's what Chris Lattner said about Kotlin this past June: "Lattner: Swift and Kotlin evolved at about the same point in time with the same contemporary languages around them. And…

WW2 made Europeans and east Asians anti war -- the people in whose countries the wars were fought. It's only Americans and Canadians who view WW2 as the "good" war. Our countries g…

> what exactly should be done with the program? While the US is already committed to the F-35, discussion of the plane's shortcomings is important for NATO and other allies who hav…

Yes, you're right! My father was an Air Force pilot and then flew a private plane into his 60's. for 40 years he religiously followed the checklists, calling out and pointing to th…

Yes, particularly for the HiDPI support for Windows. If Java 9 slips to summer 2017, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and manually scale our Windows GUI on HiDPI (shudder) unle…

On my Yosemite system /usr/local was created by default when the OS was installed.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks WWDC 2015 will tell us that it's in.

Having the index page prominently display large icons for an erect penis, a vagina, and various breasts seems like a terrible decision. And aside from the whole NSFW aspect, is tha…

I use the MAS version of the Authy BT app. It pairs correctly about 90% of the time. The remaining 10% it refuses to pair up, even with the iOS app open, but I'm pretty sure that's…

Thank you very much for posting these documents! This will save my small medical tech startup a huge amount of time and pain.

I particularly liked one of the points that Grey made towards the end: what do we do about all of the people who will be "unemployable through no fault of their own"? Right now our…

Which is great! My business is based on cloud computing. I totally see the value of syncing my business notes through the cloud to my other devices. But I need the option of flaggi…

I guess it depends on what you keep in your notebooks. Business notes in the cloud, fine. Personal stuff I keep notes on -- medical history, financial info, etc. -- all in the clou…

I've been looking forward to OneNote on the Mac for years. I installed it and found out there is no option for offline notebooks; all notebooks appear to be synced through the OneD…

I'd be interested too.