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Cisco employee here, this is spot on. I was at a startup they acquired ~4 years ago, by now it's just about milked completely dry. Even though our product is close to industry-lead…

It's Matt Champan! https://mchap.io/ I helped him process and visualize the original batch of parking ticket data waaaay back in 2016. I can't believe he's still on this in 2025. W…

Three times now I've argued strenuously against using MongoDB and Elasticache as the primary data store in an app, as they will inevitably turn into relational databases. They did.…

T1 here. I couldn't read this, even with archive.ph. Here's a more accessible source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/11/scie... Reddit thread: https://www.red…

> Average wages in America’s poorest state, Mississippi, are higher than the averages in Britain, Canada and Germany. This doesn't sound right. Googling around, the median income (…

> I look at a "sort of" competitor in our industry, and their rate of feature development is ridiculously slow by comparison. Seconded. At my org, Ruby/Rails is our competitive adv…

I expected it to be even more of a tome, but surprisingly it's been cut in half! 2nd edition: Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1312 pages Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.81 pounds 3rd edition: Paperback ‏ : ‎ …

You probably know all this as well, but for future googlers: I used to use Libre + MiaoMiao + Nightscout, but these days I much prefer Dexcom G6 + xDrip + Nightscout. Pros for the …

Same. In case folks in this thread aren't familiar... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(magazine) > Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason F…

I love it for admin pages. If only 20 internals are ever going to see it, jquery is as light as can be, can be loaded right from a CDN, needs no kind of transpilation and handles b…

> Approximately 80% of the income of traditional capitalist conglomerates go to salaries and wages, according to Varoufakis, while Big Tech’s workers, in contrast, collect “less th…

Agreed. I was also part of the Kenna acquisition after being there for 2 years and am still there. My equity got paid out quickly, I have since gotten raises and bonuses, and the o…

Nothing yet. I'd imagine it will go through appeals for a few years before anything actually happens, and U.S. antitrust enforcement has not exactly been a powerful force for the l…

There's not much to the article. > KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A federal jury on Tuesday found the National Association of Realtors and large residential brokerages liable for about $1.8 bill…

> Ultimately, Ellison said, Alameda transferred $100 million in payments to what she understood to be Chinese government officials to unfreeze the account, which could constitute a…

Good. Back in 2017 I wanted to set up multi-room audio and the only options were Sonos and Chromecast Audios. I got the whole thing done for the cost of 1 Sonos speaker. In Jan of …

> So, Facebook used interoperable tools to let ex-MySpace users eat their cake and have it too. Facebook provided those MySpace users with a “bot,” an automated program that used t…

I had to read this several times and... this is a great solution. As taxes, these are a negative incentive for hoarding housing stock and increase gov't revenues to (potentially at…

> Some of the best classic games for new people are Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars, and Monster Bash. Those first 2 are what got me into pinball, many many years ago. The last …

Indeed. Our elevated trains are excellent (even though everyone complains) but even with recent expansions they don't serve huge swaths of the city. https://www.transitchicago.com/…

25 cents/hour was indeed shockingly and delightfully cheap. I miss those days. I suppose it still is, compared to $6/hour.

Chicago resident here. The city making more from parking tickets is not exactly a selling point if you're the one paying them. Before the deal we had 20-year-old meters which were …

I saw the googleblog.com domain and immediately wrote it off as a future entry on Google Graveyard.

I worked on this! It's curated by a few video editors in LA who collect vintage VHS tapes. They've been doing it for many years, the stream is the cream of the crop. You can't imag…

I highly recommend ExpTV for this: https://exptv.org It spans the vhs era, curated by hand to flip through different oddities and ephemera. No tracking, no algorithms, just a strea…