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I'll do you one better! In the spirit of the pre-commercialized, pre-monopolized and pre-whored-out Internet, and the extent to which freedom dies with a wimper on Web 2.0, I'll st…

Companies like this give whores a bad name.

Companies like this give whores a bad name.

Supposedly they're having a feces epidemic in San Fran lately. ianad, but it seems like that could promote plague resurgence?

On one hand, there are some things that are simply too complex to attempt implementation with bash a script. otoh, there are many things that could or even ideally should be kept s…

It can be useful to keep it simple and try to stay exclusively with HTML-latest + ES-latest + CSS and avoiding external JS libraries as much as possible. Using the latest versions …

In my experience, this is a new development in the software industry. In the past, the software industry was far more constrained when it comes to talent acquisition. I vividly rec…

>> Hire local poeople and treat them as if you need them. Wow! What a concept! alas, that'll never work.

>> training staff not to plug random USB devices... Nothing like some high-consequences IRL training! Perhaps curricula for the Inspector Clouseau police academy?

When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

That doesn't sound exploitable by stalkers whatsoever!

Two-thousand zero zero, party over oops, out of time.

>> don’t understand why anyone has trouble leaving I also find it puzzling. Then again, as with cults or other bottom feeding fads and the increasingly ubiquitous, various and sund…

No worries, I reckoned that a misunderstanding must have occurred! Still, I couldn't resist a vision not unlike the penultimate and electrifying golf scene with Bill Murray & the b…

hmm your comment makes it sound as if I had said that my professor recommended reckless abandon such that we should climb the tower in swimwear during a heavy rain after cranking t…

In school, we used to learn about the RF service technicians returning with stories of dead birds and other such phantasmagoria in and around the sweet spots of the feedhorn, anten…

Shouldn't people be having fun with or trolling these always-listening systems by speaking gibberish, in tongues or reciting custom sea shanties that reenact purely fictional accou…

Alas, the 21st century provides the opportunity to address the growing scourge of using sounds or combinations of letters that communicate meaning without being divisible into smal…

They were moving so fast that they broke things, badly!

> ...way over used where they aren't needed... Bingo! Engineers love to change things like Scotty said, but they also blather on about if it aint broke, dont fix it?

"When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail." There is a tendency for mgmt to sign up engineers to a vision quest with pre-established non-negotiable requirements w…

TFA said they wanted to account for parking spaces where people had vacated their parking space before their paid time was up. That would be like McDonalds digging through the tras…

Even after Tim Cook said none of his best people have the obsolete degrees everyone covets, the focus and priorities of software interviews is perpetually: "please tell me your Lin…

That gum you like is going to come back in style.