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I joined a startup with a product in production for a dozen or so major customers (US universities), public facing, with a slick new front and backend the team had been working har…

Hi! I support a SaaS business. Our core product is a single-tenant enterprise application, so each customer is deployed in its own environment. Deployments are completely automated…

"The first lossless audio format to gain widespread adoption (FLAC) was released 6 years after MP3." AIFF and WAV say what?

When I worked at a video game studio, my wonderful grandma would tell her friends I worked at a toy factory.

After months of suffering with this, with an out warranty 15" MBP 2016 that was relegated to desk duty with an external keyboard, I heard about this program. I made an Apple Store …

It's about the 2015 models.

Loretta Lynch faced extensive questioning in the Senate and long, contentious hearings about her background and clientele during a nearly six month nomination process. She was heav…

Define blackmail.

Unless I misunderstand you, that’s an absurd overstatement at best. My wife is a somm as are many of our friends. I joined in on many of their study sessions as each of them went t…

My current Macbook Pro is probably the first bit of Apple hardware in two decades that's made me actively consider alternatives. It's been the one laptop - premium at that - from A…

I'm surprised no one has noted the copyright is to Design Science - this is a small company in my hometown who are still around. I've spoken with their CEO a few times and I wouldn…

The main census is only every ten years, but there are other datasets updates more often, as well as extrapolated data. The issue for me wasn’t data being out of date, it’s just th…

I've worked with this API a fair bit since early 2016, and it's been around longer. I've got no real complaints about the API, just want to note that the data itself is.. arcane.. …

Indeed, I was responding to your "pick Florida" by citing statewide statistics. But Melbourne is, itself, significantly worse than average nationwide, and in fact higher than the F…

Florida is hardly a state with almost no crime; on a per capita basis it ranks well within the top ten, usually close to #5. Miami, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, and Tampa all have…

Don't combine the two; outsource your email hosting (Google, etc) to save a lot of pain, and select your Django hosting from a large range of options, from Digital Ocean to Heroku …

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Seems to me like POSIX compatibility is actually a cheap pass that gives you access to a huge software environment. Right on the homepage they mention already having packages for P…

90% of the code is locked to the vendor? I've been using lambda lately and perhaps 5% of the code in my Lambdas is AWS-specific; the vast majority was rapidly extracted from existi…

Being a CTO and being a contractor seem like mutually exclusive conditions, at least where I'm from (California). It's not B&W entirely, but it's far more likely than not (at least…

Yes. Because I've got plenty to lose from criminals too.

I've already seen the child porn angle playing out in posts on Facebook. This just a little while ago: "Every child porn videographer in America is trading in his camera for an iPh…

Not saying JPEG hasn't had its share of exploits, but that the format itself isn't an example (like DOC, and PSD) of a format that can be described as "direct to memory" in the sam…

> Word and JPEG are both examples of such "direct to memory" formats I think you mean Word and PSD, not JPEG - otherwise spot on.

1. The implication that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had him under their control since 2006 is important. We were still neck-deep in two wars that were sold to the public in large par…