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AKA the Osborne effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

Once upon a time (aka the early '90s), Gopher and WWW were both simple systems for publishing hypertext. Neither one was appreciably more complex or ambitious than the other. WWW e…

One reason it can't happen today is because it never ends well. Ion Storm was a huge disaster; it produced Deus Ex , but it also produced Daikatana , one of the truly legendary bad…

Webpack's general design philosophy is to dump a bag of tools on your head and tell you to use them to assemble a build system. So anytime the bag gets larger, I cringe.

As with most things Apple, it is a joy as long as you restrict yourself to only plugging the device into official Apple peripherals, preferably ones that are available to buy right…

Of all the complaints that could be lodged against PHP, performance is a weird one.

> The Times can claim that a harsh tone and a small factual error in Senator Tom Cotton’s recent op-ed was the reason the entire paper had a meltdown, but the staffers who revolted…

I used the title the author of the article gave it. I generally try to do that when submitting, unless there is a very very good reason not to -- e.g. it's something completely inc…

We've had forty years for people to build features like this on top of IMAP, and nobody has done so. This would seem to be a decent indication that the Unix philosophy is not going…

In every company, no matter how obscene the margins they're making on a given product, there is someone arguing that those margins could be even larger if they just cut a few corne…

> Is YOLOv5 the Correct Name? > Candidly, the Roboflow team does not know. It seems like, unless you can say with certainty that you have a legitimate claim to use an existing name…

... he asks, in his column in a prominent national magazine.

Schoolteachers (in the USA, anyway) get paid next to nothing, and frequently have to buy classroom supplies out of pocket because their school system doesn't have the budget to buy…

> rather expensive editions that are rarely discounted substantially, such as the Criterion Collection Criterion's web store ( https://www.criterion.com/shop ) has sales all the ti…

The root account is a loaded gun. Sudo su is a loaded gun with the safety engaged. You can still shoot yourself with it, but you have to take an affirmative action first (disengagi…