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It's unbelievable. I used too work for Google back in 2005 and they had a custom to welcome all Nooglers (new Googlers) on Friday general meeting, where Larry/Sergey were present a…

Great stuff. I always admire efforts like archive.org, textfiles.com and yours just fits well into that theme. The nature of today's Internet is that things disappear all too easy …

Just in case someone stumbles upon this via Google and wondering what was the outcome. After almost a month of complaining via online chat and over the phone, asking for escalation…

I have not yet had to try Airbnb's support for host scam, but unfortunately I am now in a situation with a scam host on Booking.com. Some time after booking and paying for the apar…

If anyone has tried digging a deeper hole in the ground, they'll understand that this hand-operated screw-like coffin can't work at all, due to the forces involved. You need to dis…

Call me old-fashioned, but when I look at the source code of a web page designed using the "modern" frameworks, it looks like a horrible mess of JS/CSS with very little actual cont…

OK, if you define the availability of writes in this way, that they must complete immediately, then indeed the availability part of CAP is not met. However his definition reads: "e…

Is it just me, or the proof appears to be incorrect? In the last example, the write operation should simply block before returning "done" to the client, before it's able to replica…

I find it awkward how Apple is now bravely fighting problems that it has (co-)created in the first place. They invent all the clever ways how to limit the number of notifications a…

That is a very old article, I wonder if there are any new approaches to this issue.