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I suspect that without Jobs, Apple is dead by 2002. Turned into an arm of, like, RIM. Then Google comes out with the Android phone and it's all over for everyone including Microsof…

Isn't that the SmallTalk model, but everyone decided to use C++ instead?

This is the same issue as Prop 65, and while we can all say "oh the law is bad" the real problem is _corporations are lazy_. Instead of making sure their products are safe, they ju…

The circular reference is because em and ex are relative to the font size of the surrounding context, and you need to pick a physical (or derivable-from-physical) unit for the root…

"We can cut costs if we sell to a few whales and not a broad audience"

Apple's competitors lose the PR war if they don't post to social media!

Restaurants are thin margin business because wages for consumers haven't risen either, even as boardmember payouts have skyrocketed.

"Surge pricing in effect" for non-tippers.

[poop]

And yet they let through `.email` ...what?

If Qt had just made peace with the GPL back in the 90's, we wouldn't have this problem. C.f. Motif/BSD.

What she's describing is the acquisition of our ability to turn experience to story through the tool of language. Imagine a time when you were nearly black-out drunk. You were cons…

"We can't make headway with real media outlets so we'll partner with tabloid journalism!"

I suspect several of your examples are very likely the result of I18N considerations. Some alphabets/ideographic languages are denser than others. So text areas are set for the com…

Outrage that a company whose foundation is "laundering IP by running it through a complicated obfuscation engine" has created a product that is largely based on a critique of its o…

Who designs the training set for your putative "fact checker" AI?

Let's not forget the loss of tax revenue, the loss of grain imports from Vandal-occupied North Africa to support large urban centers, and the rise of local Christian Nationalists i…

Fuji Heavy Industries would like a word about pianos, guitars, trumpets, and, if we're honest with ourselves, everything else on that press. Though the tone of the ad was still... …

That model of visual-memory-centered skeumorphism died in the 90's. Because for a majority of people, they get no benefit from persistent visual placement of content, or visual dif…

They dropped any utility that switched to GPLv3 because of v3's infectious patent clause that would've put their patent portfolio in danger.

Except now the cops know that 1) this is indeed your phone and 2) you have just tampered with evidence and 3) that evidence is juicy

Our SMS-to-Internet microblogging app startup is hiring full stack developers.

In my life, it's that the only people with room to have large wooden furniture were the Boomers and their parents who could afford to live in 2.5k+sq foot houses. My whole apartmen…

Are we really playing whataboutism for the banded iron formations from 3.7Gya? Are you going to mention the Siberian Traps next? My dude, civilization almost collapsed several time…

Man, Fuck Ted Faro.