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For me it was "J2EE Development without EJB" by Rod Johnson / Jurgen Holler, published in 2004. In the late 90's and early 2000's Sun insisted you could build industrial scale web …

Interesting article. Note that many of the clues in the article are mis numbered. Not sure why. Refer to the original puzzles linked for the correct clues.

It's crazy enough this will be fixed soon. Years ago I found an actual hidden error in my bill. (This was early 2010s). The system was calculating the EC2 reservation savings incor…

I agree this is a good exploit to write about. But name and employer are hardly your deepest darkest secrets.

Love it how covers all the edge cases. I object to rule 2.1.4 “Shotgun Dictatorship”. In my car, the driver always has final say.

Huh. I was wondering why my auth expired and I had to resubscribe in one of my channels. Everything has an expiration date it seems. I assumed I just missed a reminder email or mes…

Loudoun county in Virginia, near Washington-Dulles airport. Taxes on data centers built by AWS and other firms provide almost 40% of the county budget.

Hah. I grew up when everyone had their names in the phone book with phone number and home address. It matters more to some people than others.

Can someone help clarify this for me? Is it correct to say that users would only get the compromised version if they downloaded from the website? Notepad++ has auto-update feature,…

Related to discussion on Baird vs. Farnsworth, there's a plaque honoring Farnsworth on Green Street in San Francisco. https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/cal0941.asp

Fair enough! Guilty of that attitude, no doubt. I note the corrections in the message above re emphasis on Woz/Jobs. I think mostly I was annoyed at the emphasis on how the compute…

Oh man. Both love and hate this video. It’s so slick, which seems the opposite of the late 70s homebrew backer culture. The video is designed to appeal to nerd nostalgia. However i…

Very nice. I note that in some ways the pictures really contribute to the story. For example, see the story on Eeyore's tail missing. The clue is that the picture shows the tail ha…

Holy moly. I don’t think I’ve ever read an article so angry. Every paragraph has a sensational opinion or put down posing as fact. There’s some fascinating industry trends here but…

Looks like the main point of the site is to sell Enron branded merch.

How is this different than a US or European based company hiring someone with a high degree of knowledge from another US or European country? What makes this more of a ethical viol…

Nice moment of nostalgia seeing that. The Chaos book was mind blowing to all of us young math / cs nerds at the end of the 80s. Spent my Christmas break in college working with an …

And don’t forget the barbershop 7th!

Seems to me this is just as much a problem with Slack and its configuration as with Zendesk.

Brilliant!

Wow. that brings back memories. My favorite website from the early 90s. I used to rush to check it out after each new episode to see the commentary. Love that it still exists 30 ye…

Spreckels is where people run the toy boats.