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If you don't already know what CORS is, you're probably not a Web developer and don't need to know.

Me too. Imaginos is a brilliant album

the tape relay was one of the TRS-80s IIRC. You could toggle it back and forth fast enough to overheat it and get it stuck.

Imagine how much a really big cube of tungsten would weigh. Installing it at MOMA would itself be the art.

I started writing my own WinCompose-like utility in AutoHotkey, before I learned about WinCompose. Gave up on that immediately, obviously. AutoHotkey is really an amazing tool. The…

Proprietary, not PCI, but expansion slots, yes. On HPs it was called the MIO slot and later the EIO slot. If your printer came with a MIO card that only did serial and parallel, yo…

Gil was brought in to swing the axe, and he did exactly what he was brought in to do. He cancelled a bunch of stuff that was draining Apple's resources. He was never going to be po…

If your manager is telling you that your performance is lacking and that you need to improve in specific areas, how is that really any different from being told you are on a PIP, a…

The leadership principles are an important part of Amazon's solution to the problem of getting hundreds of thousands of employees pulling in the same general direction. They are ea…

And the Internet is only one particular internet, and the World Wide Web is a specific web

"Loud pipes save lives," they say, while putting their own lives in danger from ordinary motorists who must constantly repress the urge to destroy the insufferable noise machine.

I think McD's uses liquid oil, so not hydrogenated (trans fat). You hydrogenate oil to make it solid at room temperature, as a substitute for animal fats. If you're going to fry in…

People always say that, but only one of the full-time jobs I've had in my thirty-year career has come from networking. In one other situation I was the guy who got several former c…

The purpose of the patent system is to incentivize people to publish the details of their inventions instead of keeping them secret, thereby advancing the state of the art. The lim…

I think that's what the "optimize for Web" checkbox does

They really missed an opportunity by not calling it the Great Vowel Movement

PHI means protected health information. Protected means protected by HIPAA. By definition, there is no PHI not protected by HIPAA. HIPAA is concerned with what health information m…

Shades of the 6502, where 0 was BRK

resizable arrays of pointers to objects stored elsewhere, which is going to blow through your cache anyway, especially when you start accessing those objects' attributes. so it's m…

Or you just hit Ctrl-Enter

Subaru CVTs already have essentially this feature. The transmission doesn't have gears (duh, it's continuously variable) but it still has the ability to manually shift to predefine…

Acura RL was one of the first to have active nose cancellation, in 2005.

I saw that too if it's the one that was at the Ohio State University in 1986 or 1987. I was just a kid who had never heard of either of those guys, but I still remember it thirty-s…

Expected Snoot Booper; found it