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I'd like to make a case for modern hair pieces / hair prosthesis (colloquially known in the black community as man-weaves), which have seen huge improvements in function and aesthe…

This reminded me of a steganography blog post I wrote back when I was doing computer security. It should be possible to binarily concatenate compressed (RAR'd or ZIP'd) text data d…

Southern Virginia here. Stinkbugs are EVERYWHERE right now (and have been for the past few years around the end of the summer and into fall). As I read the headline for this post I…

Well, that escalated (and got resolved) quickly.

Personally, the 'free tiers' offered by the big PAAS and cloud providers are good enough for small projects and MVPs-- can't beat free. If and when extra resources are needed, it's…

I often hear or read about how there is a developer/software engineer shortage. And the rising salaries seem to reflect that-- supply and demand and all that... Yet it seems that t…

I made it 3/4 of the way through the video, then clicked around the website in frustration looking for the download button.

The fact that China's government moves so decisively in areas of technological advancement may have to do with the fact that many of their government officials have degrees in engi…

Bonus points for landing government contracts if you can fit into one of the underrepresented/minority/disadvantaged group or small business categories. There's basically a quota t…

Amazon Web Services free tier, elastic beanstalk running node.js, S3 for static files and stuff or basic web page hosting or Google Cloud free tier, Google App Engine running node.…

There are also vision exercises on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualExercises It is totally possible to improve your ability to focus visually using these. Just doing th…

"Although some of these problems may not result in symptoms under less visually demanding conditions, the high demands of computer work cause them to become manifest. " THIS. After…

The altcoin crowd insists that people with a lot of bitcoins can and do "diversify" their cryptocurrency holdings by exchanging them for altcoins, thus making bitcoin somewhat of a…

The new Black Mirror season had an episode about this very concept called Arkangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror) This episode explores some of the risks tha…

No. My dad still calls them "bitcorns." He heard about them on NPR. It's anecdotal, but cryptocurrencies practically don't exist in my non tech-related social circles.

Very cool study on the loss of magic. There has always been anecdotal advice floating around about how to regain the 'magic', but it's good to have some empirical evidence on what …

As a counterexample, I regularly lose cash money... Sometimes money literally falls out my pocket when I fumble out a wad of cash while i'm inebriated. Other times I carelessly lea…

Research into the neurotoxicity would be very extremely beneficial. The usual advice goes: "You need to protect your serotonin receptors from damage. Antioxidants like Alpha Lipoic…

Yup, there can be many mixed results from powder/crystal MDMA sold as "molly" that I can see why people go for pill presses much more since they are a bit more standardized in term…

To be honest, the idea of universal income appeals to me because it sounds like free money. So one could simply decide not to work at all and use that UBI money for housing, food, …

The purpose of an MVP isn't to create a final product or even a polished user experience. The 'M' in MVP stands for "minimum" which could apply to features, UI, UX, and even develo…

I've found Cordova/PhoneGap extremely useful for developing mobile app MVPs. Using it on my most recent project has saved a lot of development time (which my client appreciates), w…

When I interviewed with Toptal, once I made it through the preliminary screenings, the final test was to build a simple web application over the course of 2-3 days in a language of…

How will the police patrol roads when all these cars are self-driving? Police forces will either need less patrol officers or they'll need to re-assign them somewhere other than ro…