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Safari support (and even chrome, FF on macs) is horrible. They've become the new IE in terms of typical web programming that works everywhere except that platform. In the past year…

I got fed up with Win10 last year and finally switched to a Mint distro. I run a software development company that works on the MS stack. I stuck with Mint for six months and final…

It comes from many different places and is cross-correlated at many levels. From credit card purchase history to social media to phone location data, across multiple agents and bro…

Part of the problem is that this type of data collection and market environment evolves much more quickly than legislation can ever keep up. They're trying, but..

I don't think so. Read this: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-likes-help... I am fairly confident they can easily tell which way someone leans on the matter.

The data is all over. It goes through brokers and agents and multiple companies that perform various aggregations and shapings... Data Breaches, Crisis and Opportunity (ISBN 978-0-…

Data Breaches, Crisis and Opportunity (ISBN 978-0-13-450678-4) I always "knew" that mass data is evaluated for many things, but I had no idea how much I didn't know. That book - be…

I completely disagree. A good full-stack dev knows SQL pretty well: at least well enough to be able to work through the general questions in the document. Good SQL skills are essen…

This isn't rote memorization at all. They're typical real-world problems to solve, and the point is to ensure the candidate can "think their way through" the problem to come up wit…

Uncle Bob is overrated. He's the personal embodiment of the "for dummies" series of the industry. Quick to say what everything should look like, he's given many people a false sens…

Last year I got an iPad, my first Apple device (I needed ForeFlight for flying, and it's only available for iPad). I downloaded a few manuals for ForeFlight, which apparently went …