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TouchBistro ( https://www.touchbistro.com/ ) | Senior iOS Developer, Developer Acceleration | Full time, Toronto OR remote Canada/select US states TouchBistro is an all-in-one rest…

20+ years of this handle online without problems, and I found out trying to sign up for Stern Pinball Insider that "bint" is a dirty word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bint

Square remembers your email address by credit card number. This was really surprising to me. I used Square once at a shop in Seattle, and had an email receipt sent to me. Almost a …

While it is mostly marketing (i.e. still using Chakra and Trident engines), the biggest change from a web developer's perspective is that the new Spartan browser will be evergreen[…

Just because you opt out of letting Facebook (or Linkedin) see your contacts, does not mean your contacts have done the same thing. e.g. If you are someone@example.org, and others …

As others have noted here already, the smart TVs are quickly becoming the only thing you can buy now, at least in North America.

Radio Shack in Canada ended up in a similar situation. In 2005, they sold to Circuit City and opened as a rebranded store called "The Source" (after a brief legal dispute about the…

> I'm in Illinois which is an all-party-consent state It looks like this was overturned in 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_wiretapping_law#Court_... http://www.washingt…

It would have finished eventually. This only happens if you have a lot of stuff in /usr/local (e.g. Homebrew). https://jimlindley.com/blog/yosemite-upgrade-homebrew-tips/

It's good to see this get some attention. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to make full screen zoom usable with an external display. I found if you enable the "Increase…

My feedback: I just tried it in Toronto and had to swipe down about 50 times to get rid of obvious (and NSFW) spam. The content is better now, but all coming from the eastern USA. …

I don't believe it was a DDoS, but Route 53 stopped resolving records for Cloudfront distributions for a few hours on Nov 26 2014. This affected everyone who uses CloudFront (which…

That is true, the discount is only good for e-books. I hardly even thought to make the distinction. These days, for technical topics anyway, the "e-" prefix is just as optional for…

https://pragprog.com/ has 50% off all books. I don't see that listed here.

Amazon.com is up for me, but is entirely missing product images.

Yes. That's not perfect. But it raises the bar for forgery to "can sign certificates as a root authority", which is still fairly high. (e.g. I can't do it, and neither can you.) It…

Airbus. That makes a lot more sense. I initially read that as Airbnb.

OT: Anyone remember VRML? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

They should have never diluted the "Kindle" brand by mixing e-ink products and iPad-knockoff products. I still think e-ink is the best way to read long texts, and it's a shame that…

That this is an opinion piece is made obvious by Betteridge's Law: > "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bett…

This reminds me of the infamous HN response to Dropbox's launch 5 years ago: > you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it l…

I didn't get the context, so I looked it up: http://aphyr.com/tags/Jepsen > This article is part of Jepsen, a series on network partitions. Covers MongoDB, redis, RabbitMQ, among o…

> Maybe the "next browser" will be so intrinsically attached into your OS window manager there will be virtually not difference between an installed application and a website, thei…