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Thank you for writing this. Your point about "quicker deterioration of local environments" is thought-provoking. My key technical complaint about LLMs to date is the general inabil…

Re xslt based web applications - a team at my employer did the same circa 2004. It worked beautifully except for one issue: inefficiency. The qps that the app could serve was laugh…

Agreed. That is the only message I've seen on Brave mobile (Android), which I'm using to post this. I use Brave for privacy. I have all crypto BS disabled. I previously assumed tha…

I recognize the name John Levine at iecc.com, "Invincible Electric Calculator Company," from web 1.0 era. He was the moderator of the Usenet comp.compilers newsgroup and wrote the …

I can sympathize. I worked in AdTech, once, and exited that role as quickly as possible. I now work for a book publisher (one of the "big five" in USA) that's part of an organizati…

(Macmillan employee) To my knowledge, no and probably no. I'll inquire. I'm aware that it's available at Kobo in EPUB format but that includes Adobe DRM. https://www.kobo.com/us/en…

(Macmillan employee) Confirming, it is a Macmillan title. Metropolitan Books is a Macmillan imprint. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250237231

Actually, NeXT did just that. OPENSTEP ran on Mach, Solaris, HPUX, and (amazingly) Windows NT. It didn't make a difference for NeXT's market share. NeXT was acquired by Apple. 6 mo…

This is awesome. Imagine you have a mobile app for viewing news articles, an API to drive it, and an aggregator to collect the content. Now it's 2016 and you'd like your app to sho…

My first thought was, "How does this compare to Swift?" But this is totally different: you want to create useful programs _on_ the touchscreen device. It's purely functional and st…

Yes, it's still connected to the outside world, and has been continuously thus far. Example of a site still being served from machines at Peer1: http://blog.squarespace.com/ (I am …

+1 to group chat over IM for company use. Skype has excellent group-chat, that's what we use. Much easier to adopt than IRC for non-tech types, and it's free which is a bonus. (I d…

This question is 11 hrs old, and nobody has mentioned Postgres' need for periodic "VACUUM" operations? Seriously? If you are running a system with significant data churn (think: a …

+1 for Aquamacs. I've used Emacs on/off for 15 years and I've grown to detest the need to "feather my nest" every time I move to a new seat. I want a usable default configuration, …