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Modern versions of excel (after office 2007), using .xlsx files, have a 1,048,576 row limit. But older versions of excel (before office 2007) used .xls files and had a limit of 65,…

Unfortunately many managers are not adults, emotionally.

I used to write my resume with LaTeX, but the last time I was job hunting I decided to take a different approach - now I keep my resume as a single semantic HTML document, and I ap…

One of the original starcraft games accepts 11111-...-11113 (I don't remember how many places, but all 1's and then a 3 or 4). Guess how I figured that one out.

Sorry, but no. Most lithium chemistries have a nominal voltage near 3.3 - 3.7V per cell. When you stack lithium cells in series for any sort of high-performance application, you ne…

They are (1), and although that did hurt Ubiquiti's stock price nothing else ever came of it. I have no idea why anyone listens to these guys. [1] http://www.citronresearch.com/cit…

> Birth defects aren't contagious and are not often fatal. Well, not immediately fatal, anyway. What if a gene modification is developed that halves the rate of aging? Is it a birt…

I had to deal with CORBA 6 months ago in the large scale architectures class at my university. I'm _very_ glad that class is over.

My main display is the same resolution. I absolutely love it, and rarely feel like I'm wanting for space.

If you're only interested in blocking the trackers, you might appreciate ghostery ( https://www.ghostery.com/ ) - it does exactly that.

I disagree with this, in my opinion slack has a lot of features on top of IRC (offline messages, webhooks, etc) that make it much more usable for its target audience.

I hope they present and push a focus on security with whatever they do. I use android because I don't like apple, but it seems like there's a new critical android vulnerability eve…

You are correct. I know there are sites out there that even aggregate camera feeds, although the more ethical ones remove any feeds where there may be privacy concerns. Frankly, I …

These attacks are showing that's it's trivial to achieve remote-code-execution on many of these devices. So in a way, yes, they do have self-destruct built in. Simple connect to on…

This is something that has occurred to me too. It would also -hopefully- result in large, class action lawsuits against the manufacturers for producing products so insecure that th…

A fairly large and obvious difference is that around Christmas I can (and usually do) break up the cardboard boxes into smaller pieces, and put them inside my trashcan instead of j…

Here's the thing though - you have to have a DAC in the phone anyway because the phone needs to have a speaker built in. Now, it might be nice for some people to be able to get an …

> It's not about rich, it's about having coding after-school classes as available as soccer (or whatever) practice. Ok... so what about the kids who want to play soccer instead of …

@it33, apologies for the slow reply here, I basically never check my messages. I'd be happy to do that once I get some time at work, or afterwards. For the sake of replication, my …

On my android phone, the mattermost app does something weird to my keyboard - it replaces the right-most 1/3 of the spacebar with a key with a '->|' symbol on it that closes the ke…

Just one result? I wonder if it was one of their plant results. I've heard rumors of Google seeding some (just a few) obscured google searches with totally irrelevant results, so t…

Cool Retro Term is my guilty pleasure. I spend an awful lot of processing power just to make my terminal look older and less reliable. But somehow, to me, it doesn't feel right to …

This is true, but Apple has the same model - you need an OS/X machine (note: much more expensive than a basic windows machine) to develop for iOS, and I believe the app store fee i…

Because one of the characteristics of McMansions is that they (poorly) copy the style elements of classic designs while ignoring the rules that governed those designs. Modernist an…