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Corps have a dev environment sitting right in Excel that doesn't need special (management, management's management, adding to a registrar of projects, budgeting or project manager …

I'm not impressed by the USB. That it's possible to put transaction details on a USB stick means it's possible for customer data to go walking out the door on a USB stick, too. I'm…

I hate scalpers. I'm too busy doing HFT to deal with the problems they make.

The positive part of snaps, and I don't like snaps for myself, is that snaps keep updating on an unmaintained server. So as a default for VPS providers seeking to hand hold users U…

No just major Chinese bank, but the biggest bank in the world measured by assets. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks

You'd probably be better off downloading an edition of wikipedia for that purpose. Entropy, and stuff.

+1 useful.

Seconding Zettlr. It also handles citations smoothly with a linked .bib file. The sidebar (a sidebar, there's more than one) also does directory tree structure like your favourite …

You mean kicking back over some eggs benedict, a meat and cheese charcuterie board, with some champagne on the side, sitting back in your pine-panelled centrally heated chalet over…

The call-in was an anonymous, apparently, call to the company's switchboard stating a bomb package had been left in the vicinity of the desk. We were evacuated to a separate part o…

I once worked with new awful in-house software that (thankfully) depended on 3rd party software. We had the legacy in-house system parallel running, which was even more awful. The …

I quit Ubuntu for Debian. It works for what I need: What I need: Browser (Firefox), Email (Thunderbird), Notes (Zettlr) + Reference (JabRef), Python, Postgres, Shell, occasional Li…

An octopus could set my SAAS pricing too. How can I be sure this is not better than an octopus?

Yes. You choose your god(s). They're in your head.

Paul Graham uses Twitter still?

> That's exactly what I'd like to be able to do again Dreamhost.com (or one of the many others). Pick 'webhosting' as the option. You may even get a free .com for a year, just like…

Skills based education: Learn how to push a button A on a machine to start it, how to push button B to stop it. This can be learnt (and tested) perfectly. It is the ultimate in ski…

It hasn't. Surfing the web without an adblocker is almost as bad as 20 years ago without Firefox or Opera and popups galore. Less immediate, acute security risks than then, more vi…

The price of a subsidised loan has increased as the subsidy has fallen while the face value of the asset the loan's for purchase of, an asset that's blown up on financing that's be…

Next, whip out a copy of "Beginning Java 2.0". /s Have them set a reasonable end-goal, a thing they'd like to make. Give them the tools to do this. Mark out some steps and scaffold…

Motor racing perhaps. As in, the wheels are on fire. I believe I've heard it in relation to the internet since broadband rollout. But who knows, perhaps that's just past experience…

Just don't drink. Not an easy 'just' if kicking a physiological and peer-pressure habit and especially worth it for these groups.

Are reading articles about being productive a productivity gain?

It takes tens of thousands of engineers at FAANGs to... do webmail... doing IM takes one FAANG... 30 people?... to replicate what non-technical local events communities did in post…

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