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the web is a pile of horse shit why is this even news. the best part is how all the SJW apple tesla cloud smart tech yuppies in tech dont care about how 99% of the world who cant a…

Here's what needs to happen: The tech industry is not ready for pervasive internet enabled devices that have microphones, cameras, or control heavy machinery. It all needs to be ta…

you cant sue someone for writing down what error messages that product can produce. you cant sue someone for reverse engineering their product (it has to have been done for an actu…

1. stop putting software in things 2. especially dont put webshit in things 3. especially dont put smartphone shit in things really, i'm not trying to sound rude, theres no other w…

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> I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. it's still right here every day when Firefox says "gah this tab crashed".

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why are these new languages always built to solve problems in windows or unix or whatever and the main problem in those os are that there are 21 languages and thats before you even…

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there absolutely never was a "line of death". one of the major problems with web and OS isolation has always been that they could never make up their mind where to draw the line. i…

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no, i never used such a product. > Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. i have never had this problem because i implemented it myself in a few hours of work

> Generally speaking, I'm happy to pay a subscription because this way I get a steady stream of all the updates, and it's much more likely the company has a sustainable business mo…

this could be solved by not requiring collection of citizens' private info at gunpoint. but im sure all the idiots who reacted to snowden by building half working "solutions" with …

before HN, i just used to post something and google would magically index it and a ton of people would pour in suddenly one day.

the field of engineering exists so that these types of problems are known by nature of what subfield you are working in so that you can use your expertise at the time of design to …

literally this. user agents are an obsolete feature (i considered it obsolete around 10-15 years ago) and whenever a new protocol includes it you already know its made by backseat …