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His accusation is that Hugo Boss are going well beyond reasonable defense of their trademark, by suing businesses in entirely unrelated industries that use either 'Hugo' or 'Boss' …

It's a "cheap, easy, reliable: pick any two" situation. Cheap and easy: buy a 2 TB drive and keep it at home. If some disaster affects your home -- flood, fire, burglary -- it can …

I think the popular opinion (and my own) is that VS Code has been the better editor for a long time now. Performance, features, and reliability have all been drastically better, it…

To be fair, I wouldn't have found him on IRC in 1998 either. IRC has really always been a relatively niche thing and I think it's fair to say it's doing well if you define that as …

Not necessarily, there are lots of phone service providers who except certain websites or services from the data tracking. Some of them Google services already -- Virgin Mobile in …

What do you consider to be low? Anecdotally, the Google app on my phone almost perfectly recognised, played over speakers, this fairly rapid dialogue between two people encoded as …

Their leather cases will help keep them on your armrest, too, because they peel into a tacky flaky mess within two months. Very cheap and nasty.

ESPN only really cover one country. If you're in the US I'm sure it's fine but for everyone else the coverage is not only almost nonexistent but often factually wrong when it does …

The term fair use is US-only but many nations have similar concepts or concepts that overlap with it. Australia's 'fair dealing' policy allows for the use of copyrighted material w…

An emoji isn't really a shorthand for a word or phrase, using an emoji has its own unique meaning. Responding to something with (heart-eyes) is interpreted differently to anything …

Netflix and Amazon are both moving to AV1, so while that's true today, it won't be for long.

The Switch only allows whitelisted pages, but sometimes loads them over HTTP (notably Puyo Puyo Tetris opens a web applet to http://sega.jp ), so you can MITM yourself and load arb…

It does this by converting them to AZW3, which can have poor results or fail entirely for long books, books with lots of images, or books with certain formatting.

There are quite a few things I like about Go, but it's just so hard to leave the safety and reliability of TypeScript. Go's limited type system is its fatal handicap IMO.

> a very known fact for all unix grey beards The co-inventor of Unix, Ken Thompson, and the Unix team engineer and author of The Unix Programming Environment, Rob Pike, are both bi…

Because you trust their security better than your own, which at any organisation without a dedicated security team seems like a reasonable decision. I live and die by my money, too…

I groan every time I have to implement the 15th type-specific loop implementation of what I'd do with a single map or fold in Ruby/Elm/Haskell/JS/TS/Crystal/every other language I …

Does JavaScript make it easier to reason about those potentially-optimizable areas? Which language features make it easier to optimize to the level that V8 is? (V8 being 7-10x fast…

Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say that (==) : a -> a -> Bool is a lie? I don't have enough experience with more powerful type systems to know what the more accurate c…

I'd read it as implying the opposite: that there are 40,000 moths out there who will wind up in a bear's stomach tonight. Like "some 40,000 people per day are hit by a car"; you wo…

CPython switched to C99.

Many ads like this will also let you exit out by pressing the area where the x would appear immediately, even 10 seconds before they actually render the icon.

Borges' one-paragraph story "On Exactitude in Science": "... In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety…

I learnt more about Haskell in ten days of using Elm than I would have in another ten days of studying Haskell, personally. I think Elm makes a better introduction to FP concepts b…

There is work being done on Universal Windows Platform support for React Native, which will let you publish not just on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile but on the Xbox One.