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Yeah I built one of these for .NET specifically for this, with DB-specific drivers to extend the API, especially for Postgres. It just tries to be a dead simple representation of t…

Every cool new revolutionary, game changing, disruptive tech I can think of has had some kind of “killer app” that lead the way to widespread pubic awareness. Peer to peer had Naps…

Haha, maybe not? Since their car would tend to go underneath, although the footage I've seen always shows the other vehicle hitting from the side with the hood sliding slightly ben…

Mercedes has a system on the S-class that uses the sensors to detect a potential impact (e.g. an rapidly approaching vehicle while the car is stationary) and uses the active suspen…

Not a specific piece of software, but a characteristic of a limited percentage of anonymous internal systems--one of the most beautiful things to witness in the realm of design is …

> It's fairly common for us to start watching a series and the next day Netflix will show us as having already watched all of the episodes Wildly off-topic but perhaps you’re turni…

> Uber charges drivers 25-30 percent without coming close to covering their actual costs I mean this is it, right? This is the big one. All these "tech" companies that are not actu…

Yeah, no. Companies that care about costs absolutely track what they’re spending and where. I’ve seen plenty of merely questionable expenses a fraction of this caught and called ou…

Yeah for real, the city might actually try to do something about someone removing signs. Not even joking.

Hell no. Also if this is your expectation you’re absolutely insane if this isn’t automated…also this kind of sounds like QA to me. My presumption is the base functionality requirem…

I am afraid that the last few minutes of life will be like a confusing and disoriented nightmare. That has always seemed to me to be the most likely scenario as your brain is shutt…

Right, nobody who has a bad experience with agile is doing it right. I am very familiar with this line of argument. Fact remains though that back when everything was waterfall (pro…

It seems that with these types of changes, I mean with more and more of the workforce working on schedules that don’t overlap, it is going to become more and more important for bus…

I recently received a copy of a letter with some information about my ancestors from the 1700s. Apparently they owned an inn in a small village in France (it is still there and loo…

I think many of us, myself included, have been conditioned to be paranoid—just because I can’t think of/don’t know of any way some data could be abused doesn’t mean I’m going to ma…