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The hate comes from little inaccuracies that have caused hours of stress and confusion. It is probably not as bad now but I recall getting pretty frustrated after spending hours de…

I thought they had a ton of debt, largely for their new offices? Did that change?

Unless you just don't shower and/or shave. I work from home. I don't need effort and products to look like I just woke up.

If someone barfs in the taxi (which I think is quite common tbh) it may not be visible to the camera even if they wipe it up. In either case, that car still smells like barf until …

Look at the cost a different way: your data is clearly important and you just saved having to hire an ops person to help manage it part-time. I get that this isn't reality though. …

Probably about 100ms or more on each request (to and from). Slower depending on location and network conditions.

I'm convinced this is how some of the payment gateways make their money. With one gateway after we switched providers and took the interface out of production we received about 5 f…

A credit card is insured. I am not sure I can say the same about the mandatory connction between Paypal and my bank account. It is much riskier to use Paypal than to give a strange…

"Being on the right path" doesn't mean that long-term this is a responsible party for steering democracy.

Bring on the downvotes! It is still Orwellian.

It isn't the answer you're looking for but it is all that comes to mind: Drudge.

Sounds and feels Orwellian? This is pretty much the definition. Snopes is basically one guy putting a US Democrat spin on everything. Getting really tired of Silicon Valley do-good…

They're too busy changing the icons and adding border-radius to everything. Don't you know it took them 6 weeks to change the star button into a heart? They are very proud of it! /…

So the feature is explicitly for security? Security feature. It is security for the user, not for the server. It is still security.

The icing on the cake is that engineers cost more than support reps. Sure the bot can "scale" but in a lot of cases I wonder if they are really saving by having a team of engineers…

Xdebug in production you say?

The worst part is the banner advertises features that I absolutely do not want.

If you can learn a programming language you can learn to say bonjour and order a meal in French. I know, I have done this.

You don't hear about senior-level jobs for $80,000 in major US markets though. In Canada they are quite common (and realistically only worth about 60,000 USD). I work remotely and …

Do that in a rental car and the fee doubles again. Cost me $25 to cross a minor bridge to save 2min in the middle of the night.

This is why I like to remind people of Tesla's true innovation: finding government tax credits and giving consumers a way to spend them on Tesla.

Find a new job!

The author describes walking their children through the house upon becoming the owner and finding two people smoking crack. So yes, it was a crack house. It was also in Parkdale - …