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As we're sharing prank stories... I think one of my most simple - yet evil - prank was to LD_PRELOAD a modified `malloc()` on a colleague's computer. Except where the common practi…

My reaction to this was "Oh hello Firebug, old friend" :) It's not firebug, but it was nice that firebug at the time was installable as an extension or a simple bookmarklet, for ju…

It's already as far away as I possibly can. I'm afraid you overestimate the size of my housing. It's a good tip, though. But with mobile phones now, people tend to start printing a…

Thank you! And congratulations on a successful investigation! Agreed, drawn and quartered for the culprit seems warranted.

Please do get started. This sound like an awesome story! (For HN, that is, maybe not so much for dinner parties). Just thinking about the thought process you had is entertaining in…

I'm honestly a bit confused by the comments. I've had and installed only 5 home printers over my entire life (excluding professional printers at works) One was an already refurbish…

If you like that sort of look back at tech history, and at things that came out from the PARC, I highly recommend "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age…

OP here. I just realized that it may seem like I'm trying to drive traffic to the post on StackExchange. I was more trying to get some discussion going here as well and see what pe…

Well, in the case of Bitcoin, the value didn't come from nothing. The mining analogy itself was part of the concept. There's definitely a wastefulness aspect that may have been und…

Let's hope so... er... wait... Except there are way too many systems that store plain text passwords.

My memories are that Google Video worked fine without additional plugins, but I primarily used it to consume Google content (primarily their tech talks), documentaries, etc... YouT…

As former resident of several European countries, I find your statement, while not entirely incorrect, a bit too "blanketing". All this may be quite dependent on where you live (th…

That grandfather and two of his brothers left [...] with no plan [...]. They were helped by strangers and survived. Their mother however, along with two other siblings, had a plan.…

Hmm, so... You've rediscovered the roots of the wikiwikiweb ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb ) ? Nice. Wish more of the web was still like this, really...

Actually, they may not be the "next big thing", but they're still a pretty huge deal. Especially for IT and ecommerce support. The support sector is estimated to a value of a few t…

Between GitHub being acquired by Microsoft, and Atlassian ignoring most of its top-voted issues for BitBucket Cloud and having significant differences between its Cloud and Server …

Yes, but: - we're not talking about space probes, - this is just one dev who thought "I want to write an email client" and make a tech choice based on his/her own proficiency with …

Teaching, academic research and OSS.

True, I haven't seen another product "match" Facebook. But I also don't see much need for it (entirely), or at the very least for most of its features. The Facebook of ~2007 was ab…

I'm in Chrome65. I didn't say anything about using Safari. In any case, even w/o the lag, the page is still way too slow to load and quite heavy. Not really the best approach for c…

Dang. I have an MBP with an i7 and 16GB of RAM, and a landing page lags?! Hells no. Also, I think it ate 1% of my battery in the blink of an eye. No thanks. Update: 8MB for a landi…

Solomon being French - and considering the title - my brain automatically played tricks on me and as I read his post's title I pictured him saying "Au Revoir" in its most famous fo…