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Thank you for having "developer at artsy.net" in your bio as I would have found this continued questioning odd otherwise. The gallery cancelled the order claiming both pieces are o…

Nothing that's Amazon's fault. Amazon purchase history shows order complete, paid via Amazon credit card. Gallery currently refuses to ship either piece. Verdict: yes, Amazon has s…

I've never had a bad experience with Amazon or any of their third parties across hundreds (!) of transactions. Long time collector, I purchased two pieces of art yesterday via the …

Thank you for this. Onc clarification: the "Bieber YouTuBe upload" takedown scenario remained a DMCA issue. The non-commercial = non-felony language was actually made even more exp…

That was actually one of the key points of SOPA -- it extended DMCA-style service provider protection to payment providers and ad networks. As for the "streaming" provision, that w…

For starters, it's ntoskrnl.exe. Dig out the original Windows NT stuff from the early 90s and you can infer Dave Cutler and team's original vision. The fact that Microsoft made hun…

There's a third issue here, Tim: a perceived downward trend in the quality of the offerings of O'Reilly Media. My first O'Reilly book taught me sed/awk. Now you print magazines wit…

Sigh. Claude Shannon is rolling in his grave.

Click the Xamarin Dev Center link. You'll see Android and iOS but no Linux. They're focusing on mobile client tools. They never got the full stack running on the server and they pu…

After losing the support of Novell they refocused (see xamarin.com). They really did an amazing job with what they had, though. That said, Mono benchmarked about 4x slower on my we…

And here's where I flash pocket aces: I sat in a room with no windows and no computers, across from men with strong chins and short haircuts, reviewing Windows NT source code line …

I hadn't heard this story before, but time isn't kind to this particular conspiracy. The moment of clarity: Mr. Curry wanted to sue Microsoft but "couldn't find a lawyer willing to…

Um, you know how Rails binds, right? Also: MVC2 runs under NET 3.5 which doesn't even have the dynamic keyword. (I don't use dynamic in MVC3 or MVC4 either...) The "stringly typed"…

That's how similar products work. Some contain batteries to remember state. Some are full duplex and request state / update status. Some even work. Another fun scenario: somebody c…

The poor color rendering is what the comment above you is talking about. If a bulb makes your wood walls look funny and the picture of your girlfriend on the desk look like an alie…

The home automation market has been an utter disaster for decades. I hoped the "green" movement would nudge it mainstream. Not yet, and Google even killed off their home electricit…

Requested it as part of the application. Perhaps I could have avoided the disclosure, but since a merchant account is effectively offering you credit (think about it) leveraging my…

I can echo the same treatment with two different merchant account providers across three companies. Didn't matter if it was a $10k month or a $1MM month or if the company was new o…

I did some work here. There's a lot of problems with legibility research. It's very, very hard to test for "legibility" or "readability" -- as, not surprisingly, the typeface is on…

Exactly. Sass/Less have functions to adjust brightness and saturation for just this reason. I routinely tweak saturation so link and hover colors "read" the same on a white backgro…

"what you imagine it will be like greatly exceeeds what it actually will be like." According to Dan Gilbert, this is fallacy behind most life decisions. In both directions: we over…

Dropbox only supports files up to 150MB via their API. I inquired about bumping the limit on a per-app basis; no response.

Historically Microsoft has flown by the seat of its pants with a lot of this stuff. You wouldn't believe how horrible the Windows 95 or Windows XP interfaces were right up to the l…

I see you've never listed a million dollar house for sale. :)

Your post confused me because it said a lot of things about App Engine's datastore that conflicted with my direct experience. Khan Academy is one of the few sites that I'm excited …