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Can we stop pushing this broken piece of crap? There are some really nice Linux Laptops out there. System76 has none of them.

The Mirai Botnet is proof that the internet (i.e. IP) is broken. We need trusted sender trails for packages. Now.

Paid marketing by System76. I doubt this will help their 80 minute battery life ;)

Thank god they finally killed that stupid magsafe. Don't even want to know how many days of work/income I lost because it accidentally became unplugged and I left home on a dead ba…

Having multiple authorative servers for static DNS records is easy. Doing what Dyn does (e.g. geo load balancing, active failover, cdn integration) is insanely hard. Syncing that a…

About time somebody has the balls to stand up and do the right thing!

Lets hope a caught a cold and will die.

They will just move all business and all assets out of the country. Having quite a big impact on US economy. Or: Govt will seize control of Apple ... and destroy it within six mont…

We are overworked, underemployed and (feel) powerless, because social security has failed. 30% of my income goes to social security systems, so I have to work 50% to earn the same.…

The premise is wrong: "constructing a larger string out of multiple smaller strings is a pretty common programming task" No, it's not. "strcat(strcat(strcat(strcpy(buf, "This "),"i…

Tried to buy a Visual Studio license for porting our game to Windows Phone last year. Ended up paying $2K for a version that was able to build WP apps, but not allowed to release t…

Not sure about the "fans", but us mere mortals are quite ok with the quality.

99% of "rags-to-riches" stories start past 40. The selfmade millionaires under 40 are statistical outliers ;) (Not strictly "auto"biographies, but most of them have ghostwriters an…

Running a large scale analytics tracking backend for a game on AWS (written in swift, needs some hacks). About 5 million requests/hour. Pro: - Dirt cheap (pay only what you need) -…

The common misconception being that the poor are poor because the rich are rich; But there is no causality. Not even a correlation.

The only reason we smoke pot is that the FBI can't coerce us into working for them.

So maybe putting the number that we can text from outside the US networks on the website might help.

To elaborate a little with one example: 1) One of our server goes down. 2) My watch tells me about it. 3) I can decide a) Reboot it b) Replace it c) Send a callout to my Ops team. …

Looks like you have been living under a rock. I constantly add new stuff to my watch. Ranging from simple apps to complete workflow solutions. Give me 2 more month and I can replac…

After struggling with a similiar problem for nearly ten years I finally bit the bullet and took 6 month "me time" last year. Had to beg friends and family for money, but now I'm mo…

He wasn't "developing". He connected off the shelf components. It wasn't a "WiFi Router". It was a WiFi over HAM bridge. It wasn't for "Whistleblowers". It was to steal WiFi. And i…

We recently replaced all (~300) our 2012 MPBs with 2015 MBPs. We didn't have a single complaint so far. And we have a lot of power users. Maybe you just attract bad luck.

My ASUS PB287Q is PLS and not IPS, but I just love it. Not a single glitch in the last 8 month.

Almost forgot: Sharding 101 "Always shard via directory..."

I just love how startups keep reinventing the wheel to solve problems that haven't been problems for decades. Come on, 25 pics + 90 likes per second... that almost like... [wait fo…