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"That application whitelist probably needs a permissions flow for a user to agree that Password Manager Brand X is indeed their password manager application of choice." This scares…

Oh, I see: you probably didn't know that CSV formats is also means character separated values, and can actually use non-printing ASCII characters as delimiters. You didn't think I …

My problem with this article is the entire strategy for delivering data. A JSON file? That's probably the worst way I could think of: a CSV file would have been better. Part of the…

Ahhh the old fallacy of "two things we don't understand must be related because we don't understand them!" See also: eclipses and human sacrifices; planetary orbits and the radii r…

I'd like to offer a few decades of perspective on your claim. I've been programming for 30+ years. When I sit down to code, most of the time I've thought through it before even typ…

"The usability of an OS is inversely proportional to the size of its control panel." --A college friend, circa 2000 Let's pick a particular UI/UX combo, the GUI: how have GUIs evol…

Meditation as an Olympic event. Meditation as competition. Meditation as vehicle to sell products. Yup, meditation has come to America full-force.

Thanks, I'm kinda in the same boat. :)

Did her pessimism ever subside or did you just learn to accept it as part of her?

That's pretty funny and I'm glad to hear something other than another barely believable "I did this god mode hack" story... The mechanical realm doesn't get enough love. Indexing s…

Aaaaand we've come full circle back to Microsoft Foundation Class builder that was all the rage in the early 1990s.