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I had some books that referred to it as .NET Server printed before the name change. In the long history of terrible Microsoft names, this was a rare case where they were able to ri…

I find it interesting for your example you chose Moment.js -- a time library instead of something utilitarian like Lodash. For years I've following Jon Skeet's blog about implement…

Really impressive since Internet Explorer 5 for Mac was the best browser anywhere at the time. First to support HTML4 & CSS1.

One unexpected upside moving from a DC to AWS is when a region is down, customers are far more understanding. Instead of being upset, they often shrug it off since nothing else the…

Has any CEO known a failure of this magnitude?

It was originally an internal tool, so I would guess either A) he doesn't have permission from all the contributors or B) he used reused code from elsewhere within Microsoft that w…

A lot of people here put Unix on a pedestal, so finding a published book that so explicitly hates Unix is quite novel. Furthermore, the criticism doesn't come from the typical demo…

Solr and Elasticsearch are both Java servers built on top of the Java search library Lucene. There are plenty of articles on the internet describing how they differ. However since …

Practical Engineering did a video on the complexity of bringing a power grid back online, called "black start" (not cold start). https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/12/5/what-i…

Second stage reusability was certainly proposed by SpaceX: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/11/musk-wants-to-make-fal... https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/this-six-year-old…

I think they mean to say that the animated gif[0] your site is misleading as it shows an animated transition that doesn't actually occur in the product. [0] https://www.screenstab.…

Wendover Productions has a great video on this topic: Big Plane vs Little Plane (The Economics of Long-Haul Flights) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M

... imagine how far ahead their newer stuff is. Trump gave the whole world a good idea how far ahead the newer stuff is when he tweeted an image from an NRO satellite. Estimated at…

This question comes up commonly on reddit —- yes iMessage is very popular here. In my experience - Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Discord are the top messaging services. Whatsapp is…

YouTube channel "LegalEagle" did a discussion contrasting two Florida women being charged with felonies for throwing a glitter bomb vs Mark Rober's glitter bomb pranks: https://www…

Strongly agree. There is a huge amount of value in what RDS provides (over DIY EC2). Fellow HN user quinnypig described it succinctly: RDS is a huge win not because of anything int…

I think it's poor word choice from the author, not a transcription error. The article refers to 'stability' a second time at the end of article as well: As a result, it makes sense…

> Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video that was first reported last mont…

"Opinionated" means the software has made very deliberate design tradeoffs and is very inflexible/resistant to changing that. This is done to optimize certain objectives like softw…

Remember: "The x86 architecture is the weirdo" --Raymond Chen https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040914-00/?p=37... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130320-00…

I work for a company that sells images online. I could see a technique like this being used for NSFW images that come up in our search results. It would allow you to have an idea o…

That is a different entity than Getty Images. https://www.getty.edu/research/library/faq.html#gettyimages > No, Getty Images has no relationship to the J. Paul Getty Trust. The "Ge…

These are my mnemonics, pretty sure I'm not too far off though: r = RAM. Instances are biased toward having more memory. i = I/O. ... have fast SSDs. d = DISK. ... lots of disk spa…

> it's just a slightly more usable list of EC2 properties and costs For anyone who has to constantly (re)evalaute EC2 instances, this is a huge understatement. Now, I just looked a…

This is the workaround my place is using for now: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/10491#issuecomment-7684...