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I love SQLiteStudio. On my machine it starts up in Another self-contained application I like is racket/drracket.

The 1992 study is basically irrelevant since the job market has changed drastically. There are way more self taught computer people out making money without degrees than in 1992 as…

According to a chart of the local LTE mobile internet options the max speed is 10Mbps. The fast test on my phone just reported the max speed as 1.9Mbps.

I am currently out in the sticks in the U.S. near a major interstate highway. I have one option for wired internet which is DSL. The max speed is 5Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up. I have …

There is an over saturation of lawyers in America in many of the legal fields. Making the laws harder to access is a way for lawyers to add value to their jobs because it erodes aw…

This is covered in the BBS Documentary[1]. A comparison of Phil Katz work showed he just renamed variables and moved things around. Phil rallied the BBS community to character assa…

Just tried out nextdoor.com. It tried to load 6 different tracking and marketing scripts that my browser addons blocked. Craigslist has 0. I will not be using nextdoor.

I read the language log pretty regularly and they tend to have quality content. Then you got a post like this which says the book is bad and everything about it is bad after skimmi…

I like the new look. I have been trying it out for the last week doing searches and reading books. It feels cleaner than the old layout.

Watch Jason Scott's BBS documentary to see the people who built many of the icons of the bbs world. It is 8 episodes long and is available on youtube right now. I have watched it m…

Now thats some good documentation.

This book needs some serious editing. There is clunky English which native speakers can figure out the gist of it but English as a second or later language would have a problem wit…

I have a portable air conditioner but it is not as portable as you would think. It is about 2.5 feet tall, sits on nice rolling wheels and has a small exhaust and fitting so you op…

After reading this article I can tell that the author does not understand the problems going on in Detroit and has not even been there. The city is a 3rd world country. Besides the…

They are watermarking scans of items that are not in copyright since they predate the copyright system. What kind of bullshit is this? These should all be public domain. Is there a…

Another New York is the best at X story. Every time another city does something good New York tries to copy it. They have to keep this kind of PR up to promote living in an ultra e…

The content is not licensed creative commons. The code to the actual site is not open source, only the code to use the API. I would not call this an open source project or a major …

The city I live in now only has 2 traditional style malls left. When I moved here numerous years ago it had 7 malls, all of which were accessible by bus. That is a major change and…

I recently moved an application off mysql to postgresql after hitting this error. After over a decade of mysql doing things their way and it always being a pain in the ass for ever…

> Node is a general purpose language that can be used for all kinds of things. Node is a library that can be used for all kinds of things. FTFY

Lets not forget the benefit of the automated test army known as CPAN Testers. You release to CPAN they test it across many versions of each major operating system Windows, Linux, M…

I like the SPORE (Specification to a POrtable Rest Environment) approach better. You create a description file in JSON and each native language client can use that file to access t…

If only someone had saved these for future generations :) https://archive.org/details/computer_shopper

Once again Archive Team has a job to do.

The "Modern Perl" book did this a few years ago as well. The crowd sourced nature of it helps keep the content up to date and error free.