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Parents have to do a cost/benefit estimate and ask themselves rhetorically: are they social climbing through the kids "keeping up with the Jones'" and investing (or wasting) a larg…

A service's customer data must persist somewhere. "On the cloud" is a marketing abstraction to fool customers into a false sense of integrity. Just remember that most cloud service…

When you're an Orrick customer, most of their documents come from their standard internal library. If you need something custom or have to negotiate terms, that gets more expensive…

Without a precise, concise, exhaustive contract, it risks conflict and litigation that can get real, real fast.

I wouldn't let them have any copies, period. They can just resell them to stock photo sites or do whatever else they like and it's nearly impossible to police them.

Artist arrogance must be cousin of designer ego: folks that overrate themselves with hubris believing that others will see that as a signal of quality. The only reason for a photog…

I, and I think most people, wouldn't want someone (nor the NSA) running around with license to do whatever they wish with my personal family photographs and then turn around and ex…

There is an actual form button, as opposed to a link image in the OP page, in the actual 1996 version (archive.org doesn't have the '95 version): https://web.archive.org/web/199612…

Some open source startups fail because they are non-scalable service companies deluding themselves that they are product companies. Furthermore, they do not own enough of any durab…

Perhaps if the less wealthy were able to wrest power from the very wealthy whom have clearly gamed the US tax code with Enron-like complexity, personal taxes could be fairer and si…

GAE lost a lot of users in their price hike a few years back, so on the mid/higher end it makes sense. But, hiking on the low end may "save some headaches" but it puts off potentia…

Anyone create a mass Heroku app delete app or CLI yet?

Expect 2015-2017 to have a number of AI/ML-themed movies as screenplays are likely now making the rounds.

SLAC has a larger budget, better staff and processes with narrower use-cases than campus proper. They run a decent IT shop.

The water restriction measures are mostly bikeshedding (yes, removing public lawns is probably a good thing) on low consumption behaviors on those consitutents viewed to be most ac…

A reality-denying, industry shill politician espouses: "Sinkholes arising from rapidly plummeting aquifers will boost the economy as tourist attractions. Water will be affordably t…

Also Indiana, for its eateries may now legally refuse to serve customers that use machine learning for religous reasons.

OpenStack tries to support too many different backends for most components and is a consultants' wet dream when it comes to custom work and patches required that can be readily mil…

Mode X and related: programming VGA registers to do what int 10h mode 13h didn't offer. Bonus points for flipping video pages or cycling the palette as to not cause tearing.