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They would use those 4 magic words in aviation: "I'm declaring an emergency"

I get that they need to try to do this. However, it seems they learned nothing from the Napster/mp3 era. The genie is out of the bottle. Movie industry will follow suit to try and …

Wow. As someone that has written a fair amount of VBA in the past, this is a game changer. Impressive feat of integration and I hope you're rewarded for all your efforts. Clearly a…

2013? That’s almost a decade ago.

Probably due to that provocative movie on cable TV by the same name. It had that girl from the bus.

The fact that you recognize this is a great first step. It’s not abnormal to have a negative mindset. This goes back to our caveman days of having to think about the worst case sce…

Would it though? We haven’t had this tech for that long. Has it made things better or worse when everything, including non-priorities, can be a distraction.

Saving water is a good outcome. It would have been nice if the reward for doing so was less cost, since that was one of the big marketing messages of the campaign. Instead they opt…

A few years ago, my city provided all residents with low flow showerheads - for “free”. They were even delivered directly to homes. They included literature around reducing consump…

Wow, thanks for sharing that! Hearing him name drop terms like markup language, stylesheets and internet is mind blowing. If only the promise of “no delay in response” had been ach…

We wouldn’t make applications. Rather we’d deliver components which could interoperate via a binary contract. Components would be “snapped” together by non-programmers to make an a…

Thanks for helping to restore my faith in humanity.

Agreed. It took me a couple of years to reach that same conclusion. When I did, I deleted Twitter and LinkedIn - the only two platforms I used. When I realized my mental health was…

This sounds like a potentially lucrative business opportunity!

That wasn’t my experience, but I’m referring to the mid to late 90’s timeframe before “paywall” was even a thing.

Sadly, I think you probably nailed it. Back in the day, “experts exchange” was the place to get answers to questions, and look where they’re at. 2 billion dollars. That’s a LOT of …

And the original article has exactly ZERO comments. A lot of his concepts were right, but the implementation isn’t as aggregated as predicted.