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Nah, AI's gonna let them ship more and more features you don't use so they can keep jacking the price up.

It never fails. If someone mentions “selling courses” as one of the best examples of a business they can think of, their line of business is “self-help guru/grifter”. He even has t…

This is a thing someone says if they think Silicon Valley was built in 2005. Semiconductor development built Silicon Valley, and it was not by my relatively limited understanding a…

Incentivizing publishers to load massive amounts of third party JavaScript was an industry mistake and the people who write JavaScript for ads are profoundly irresponsible and unpr…

Unless I have missed something (always a real possibility to be fair) there are also no clear details about what DOGE is, what its powers or lack thereof are, what its staffing is,…

Not really, that's why I'm reviewing other providers as per the second half of the sentence.

As a small business running like 30 Linode instances, this isn’t “hit the ejector seat button” stuff but it is absolutely “move up the schedule to check-in with all other cloud pro…

It’s already slimy that social networks, Meta’s most prominently, cut users off from the people who choose to follow them unless they pay for these sorts of things, so this is just…

The word “fun” doesn’t show up until paragraph 19 and that’s the problem with these kinds of games in a nutshell.

It's a gamble, because as of now they're not even the most popular soccer league in America let alone the world. Liga MX (Mexican soccer) ratings destroy them for the obvious reaso…

That these are worldwide rights is also interesting, that almost never happens for sports deals because there's usually more money to be had chopping up broadcast rights and sellin…

I'm sympathetic to the extremely legitimate security concerns here, but it's pretty rich for the "open, we're so open" company to be running a classic 90s Microsoft Embrace Extend …

Because it’s at least partially, if not mostly, a publicity play and “bitcoin” is the word most regular people know when it comes to crypto stuff.

If I remember correctly, their method for “annotate the world” was less expand the types of content on genius.com and more some sort of extension or standard for slapping their ann…

In my own experience, it's a solid but outdatedly old-school code editor, but it shines spectacularly in text processing. I always tend to use other editors as my daily driver (Tex…

It's hard to sell in an article because all their releases say Performance Improvements, but this version actually appears to be noticeably snappier in a way that makes a differenc…

The page mentions 89% of the features available in Starter being available in the free tier. Is there a good enumeration anywhere of what those features are and what they 11% that …

Always a good reminder to see what parts of your infrastructure are more dependent on Github being up than they should be.

Are most if not all of GitLab's future CI and CD improvements going to be focused on using Kubernetes and/or containers exclusively? We're not using that method of either hosting G…

This reminds me of the recent American Airlines story where they raised employee wages and institutional investors hammered them for it http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-americ…

I wonder how much the two switches in ad teams correlate to the weird period of time when the ads on Tumblr were about 100% for a weird choose your own adventure cartoon thing?

It was available in 2009 in a fairly cheap Ford sedan. Microsoft Sync got a lot of shit because from what I've heard, the touchscreen version was a total mess, but the voice only v…

So by this logic are we also removing Augustine, Aquinus, Decartes, Kant and the dozens of other canonical western philosophers whose arguments were substantially religious in natu…

The example they're trying to use to show you that prices aren't crazy quotes a $30+ surcharge for having groceries delivered.

and now getting server errors & timeouts when I try to get to the manager to change my passwords. this has been a hellaciously thorough attack.