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Plus Shopify and GitHub must drive most development of Rails so it’s basically an in-house dependency to some extent. I know that’s simplifying things.

Users care they just don’t know why many modern websites are bad websites. Every website is now an app whether that actually makes it better UX or not.

In some countries what you read may be sensitive info for many people.

Touch screens and gestures for one thing.

Time Machine + SuperDuper! clone + Backblaze + Arq (to S3 Glacier). I'm ready for meteors, bring it on.

I have to fly or take a ferry to get to an Apple Store. There isn't one on Vancouver Island. So it's great when you can get to one, but if you can't the support is not so good.

Please put dates on things that are published. It can be important information for readers. Leaving off dates is frustrating and doesn't make the content any fresher in any way.

Simpsons did it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XII

I have the fastest upload available in my area (5 Mbps) and my initial backup may have taken a month or two for something to the tune of 900 GB. You certainly don't need 1 Gbps to …

Code is text last I checked. I see what you're getting at, but "text editor" encompasses that already. For everyone I talk to anyway.

It's a crummy pattern. broccoli.js FTW!

Colloquially they are synonyms. Especially amongst people who don't make software. It's not derogatory and not worth getting bent out of shape about. BUT ... (Bet you saw this comi…

I had a Creative Nomad jukebox and it was so bad I went back to an MP3 discman (all the while laughing at the $500 iPod). I had never owned an Apple product. After trying a Mac I s…

Anand is excellent, but he looks at things and writes from a completely different perspective. They are not comparable in my opinion.

That is not a popular stance. See cable television.

His wife is a pro photographer but he is not. He just gets to play with high end equipment because it's available to him.

Facebook has dealt mainly with software till now, but look at all the projects Google has tackled. Self-driving vehicles, fiber Internet service, blanketing cities with wifi, Googl…

More outdated than unconventional.

The easiest and naive way to fix that is to buffer the whole thing. Don't use this to do `ls-comma -lR ~`, but only on small directory hierarchies. https://github.com/samsonjs/bin/…

You can check for many things on either side. Even if you're paranoid checking 2-3 of these should suffice. There's nothing bullet-proof if someone is trying to fool the test. In t…

The definition you're looking for in this context is: Glib; flippant

Racist?