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This feels like a non-solution; implying that working harder solves mistreatment simply glosses over the work that women do, and could implicitly associate harassment with "poor pe…

Apple doesn't really need to mess with the tech behind Shazam too much, I've personally found it to be lightyears ahead of the competition. I switched to Soundhound for a few years…

I've been using DuckDuckGo for about a year now. I would say it has complete parity with every search engine other than Google, and only seems to miss things when I do very specifi…

I think an interesting extension of this study would be looking at how other sites were affected by these bans as well. There could well be a mass exodus to a different site, like …

>> falsified fire safety data In a situation where something that severe (and malicious) is found, what would even be the short-term response? Are the management of the plant compl…

If you want to do a simple test, you can just generate some images with ImageMagick: $ convert -size 512x512 canvas:red canvas_red.jpg $ convert -size 512x512 canvas:blue canvas_bl…

I think this isn't necessarily true, especially in an era where returning to underground/cult IPs that didn't sell well is becoming a more common strategy. Shenmue 2 and Nier were …

Does anyone feel like Apple might start abusing the "open letter" format whenever they're in hot water? Since they're so famous for ubiquitous brand representation, it automaticall…

It has been done before ( http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page ), but the simplicity of jailbreaking the Wii, plus its ability to connect to the Internet, make it much more viabl…

Probably the weirdest password requirement I've seen was the one for my college's email: it had a maximum of 10 characters, and required it to contain no dictionary words or revers…

Nothing but positive experiences with youtube-dl, invaluable piece of software IMO. For people interested in tools like this, or for people who want to just watch videos without do…

There was also a terror attack this morning that has relevant articles on the front page. Perhaps adding a tooltip would be a subtle way to provide more info.

Do you have any more information on this tactic? It's fascinating, I didn't realize that there was actual intent to it.

I think a lot of it stems from an attempt at simplicity in design. At the time, Windows Mobile was offering a fully customizable filesystem, but Apple wanted to go the route of sim…