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Good read from last year about how trucks from the current LLV fleet (which at this point are very old) keep catching on fire: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ezx4/post-office-de…

The police have said they are evacuating the building, but have not identified a threat: https://twitter.com/SPVM/status/1327353175670657024

Credit to the people that wrote and maintained bugzilla, both as software and this particular instance. It's still ticking, much longer than (I assume) they planned it to.

This criticism is pretty rich, given the venue in which it is posted.

A hollowed-out book that contains something other than pages is literally a fake book. It looks like a book, but it is a fake. It is not a real book.

If you are interested in this type of activism, and live in a city that offers its own form of ID (notably SF or LA), you can do this now by signing up for a city ID card. There is…

Years ago I worked for a company who was building a piece of networking hardware, and we had bought some code that implemented various well-known routing protocols. This included t…

The disparity in disk snapshot performance was surprising.

This is the comment I was going to make. This is an /extremely/ apologetic spin from Owen Williams, and seems very unlikely to be accurate.

For technical positions, this was never a requirement afaik. For at least some non-technical positions, a college degree was required, although not for any reason I ever understood…

This is not an uncommon SV story archetype, but as many people have pointed out before me, it's one that highlights the concept of privilege with particular clarity. In the US, bot…

Valencia Street in SF has this, but it's set for 13mph, for bikers.

The extended pregnancy metaphor is confusing and off-putting.

There's not a lot to say. I didn't have any huge role in the project, although the experience working on it was hugely influential in the way I thought about programming. Maybe I'l…

I fixed blink in Mozilla twice ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89065 ) in the old days, back when I was running around looking for things to fix. The first time it b…

When I'm allowed to pick the question, I invariably pick "Which is it?", and the answer is a series of random words. Now you know, identity thieves.

Margo Seltzer taught CS50 for much of the 90s -- at least '95, '97, and '98 and also, I believe, for a couple years prior to that. (She was on leave in 1996, and Brian Kernighan ta…

This worked for me as well.

Nice addition, although as a marginal Mozilla contributor at the time (and frequent IRC lurker), I remember a few other principals being involved -- notably Ben Goodger and and Mat…

This omits one of the most interesting parts of the story, which is how Firefox evolved as an offshoot from Mozilla in the first place.

Also the name of a venerable BBS system [3]. I'm feeling OLD. [3]: http://www.hermesbbs.com/

The end of an era, no matter how minor a procedural change this is. The impact that Eich has had on the average computer user is unimaginable to me. Thanks, Brendan.