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“ the priority of sales and profits has resulted in the sacrifice of the main quality measure of their main and only product” What do you mean exactly here What do you think LastPa…

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“every single direction change I suggest, codex is all: "that's a great idea, and we should totally go that [very different] direction", try as I might to get it to act like more o…

Do you plan supporting the web version of Excel? I’m a heavy Excel user and would love to try this, but I’m on Linux, so I can use only the online version of Excel.

If they had wanted a moat for this part of their offering, they wouldn’t have open-sourced it. This is not their offering, this is a tool to raise interest.

You are right. At the same time, everything you ever posted online has already been scraped by hundreds (maybe thousands) of entities and distributed/sold to countless other entiti…

It was true until GPT-5. That model hugely improved Codex, so it being comparable with CC is a recent thing.

Of course there's an XKCD about this: https://xkcd.com/538/

and that NASA did not spend millions on this. https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/nasa-did-not-spen...

This is completely offtopic, but I would bet it was a government-funded museum. A reasonable institution would have worked with you to find an acceptable compromise, something much…

"mostly profit someone else who did nothing but write you a check" There is quite a bit of work involved in reaching the point where you write a check for a Series A round. Also, t…

https://www.learndmarc.com/ is very similar but it's a bit easier to read and interpret.

Strange that I had to scroll down this far for this answer. Creating a normal, non-admin user for them will greatly limit the damage they can do as they won't be able to make syste…

You should never store unencrypted secrets, like this export file, on an unencrypted disk. Not even temporarily. Instead, create a small encrypted drive on a pendrive or as a file …

Not sure about GPL, but this is one of the very few (2-4) restrictions of a BSD license: "Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to …

An average Store user will definitely benefit from not having to sort through dozens of spyware-laden clones of VLC

Prodigy Game: Perfectly suitable for a 5 year old with a parent there helping. They learn math while playing a fun RPG game.

This is exactly how most web applications were written 15 years ago. Server side rendering with PHP, ASP, JSP, and then Javascript for the interactive bits.

DEC was part of HP at that point, so it was the HP leadership that made the decision to ditch Alpha.

Both options have risks, in 90% of the cases, the risk you pointed out is smaller then the risk from the lost opportunity cost (working on something not relevant for the service), …

The example he uses isn't the best though. Unless your product is about identity or have other special circumstances, you should absolutely not implement your own login system. It'…