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French Canadian here - I remember my mom loving these glasses, back in the 70s-80s. We still use some of them 50 years later. They last for decades.

Apparently, you can turn off ads quite simply. * How to turn off ads on your Family Hub The widget will appear by default on the fridges as part of the software update. However, Sa…

Still hiring every other months in my company. Hard to find real talented developers. My guest : most of them are already employed. This article does not reflect my reality at all.…

Still playing GTA IV. Hope they'll take more time for GTA VI.

This is a cultural thing, I think. I'm proud to work more hours than my boss expects. My relative never brag about the number of days off they have, but will quickly tell you that …

Looking at your login, you probably gone through a lot more before cgi-bin. Nice.

I really like the Amazon Prime model: author are payed depending on the number of pages read. They get something like $4 to $5 per 1000 pages read.

I often take a lot of time to write a comment. I think, I research, I change a word, remove a paragraph, move phrases around. And then, often, I just don't post it. The reason I do…

I think I'm the average Amazon customer. If I buy something cheap and it breaks or doesn't work as expected, I just throw it away. If it's expensive, then I ask for a return, but I…

Not on topic but a little rant about dark themes. After years of reading code displayed in dark mode on a white page (high contrast), I still wonder why. It's really hard to see, a…

Would love this !

CNN, command.

I don't follow. We wrote fax softwares that eliminated the need to buy a fax. We wrote accounting softwares that eliminated the need to have hundred of accountants to get to the of…

> are skeptics even making predictions? I think that this is their point: predictions cannot be made with our current understanding of climate.

> and give it away But who would pay for this? At the end, the States can only take the money in the pocket of its citizens, present or future.

> A&W tried introducing a 1/3 lb burger, and it failed horribly because the average consumer couldn't understand that 1/3 is greater than 1/4. Why then they didn't come up with a 1…

Excellent post. I should add that text formating is almost as important as what you want to say. 11 short sentences addressing 4 points packed in a single paragraph is really painf…

Mozilla tries to find a niche to survive. But I really think that personalized adverts are a better thing that random adverts.

Your premise is false: Open source software has nothing to do with communism, Marxism or socialism. How many successful open source software created in communist countries do you k…

No. I was using Netscape in the 90s. Somewhere, Netscape published a new version that was very buggy. I switched to IE because it was way more stable. And never come back. Same thi…

Greet post, thanks!

Cannot be anything but a joke. The problem is simple, the solution requires 10 lines. There is no reason, absolutly none, to create an interface for a such simple problem.

It is parody.