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I do not recall Sun being renamed into “Java”. It was acquired by Oracle as Sun Microsystems.

It’s fine to have a conservative leaning news channel. It’s not fine to spend so much of the time spreading lies.

Steve Jobs was first a computer hobbyist, then later he worked at Atari before he co-founded Apple in 1976. He wasn’t a non-technical founder, although he was certainly less techni…

There were people who showed up to Washington DC on Jan 6, who were not affiliated with Proud Boys. Who saw the shattered windows and open doors, and decided to go for a stroll thr…

There are almost two hundred thousand employees at Google. No matter what environment Google fosters, there are always going to be 0.01% who think it’s OK to stage a protest in the…

There is no chance AI is making a junior engineer as effective as a senior engineer.

The business model was to license the browser to corporations. And they would have done pretty well except Microsoft gave away the browser for free. The model of licensing software…

I am 50 years old and -14.5 diopters in both eyes. Slowing by half would have been a great outcome by comparison.

The NYT and other newspapers don’t go after the archived link providers. Probably because the newspapers scholarly mission includes things like preservation. But they also have a p…

Relying on the App Store to distribute your app is more than a little different than building an extension to iMessages. Apple and Google want you to use their app stores in this w…

There were Internet search engines before Google, but Google did it way better. I remember when Gmail was new. It was way, way better and more amazing than Hotmail. The idea was a …

I used PFS:Write on the Apple II. Then later WordPerfect 5.1 on the PC. When I was a kid, a university student who couldn’t type paid me to transcribe his essays.

Cars also hit bikes when cars are backing up, making turns, driving above the speed limit, driving below the speed limit, when the driver opens the door. Really, many varied circum…

As merely two examples, both gRPC and Kubernetes are important to Google, and yet Google opened sourced them. "No longer used" is not the criteria Google uses to make their softwar…

There are very few ideas that are absolutely right. I don’t consider “facts” as ideas, although these days even the facts have alternatives too.

Both Amazon and Google have document writing cultures. If you want to propose an idea, you write a doc about it. The value of a doc writing culture is that writing things down enco…

Sure, Fleischacker pool was underfunded for years and fell into disrepair and then closed in 1971. But why was it underfunded, and why was there not enough money to repair it? Comp…

It’s a two hour plane ride away, but there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsilano_Pool

The NYT argument is going to be that they put up a site, own the copyright for their content and make that content available for either a human to read it for themselves, or softwa…

As previously said, search engines index and provide links. I’ll add that it constitutes fair use because a search engine isn’t itself a replacement for the articles that it indexe…

I dislike hot tubs. Don’t want one, don’t even want to sit in one.

I’ll add my support to the chorus of Brother laser printers. My spouse bought one about 6 years ago and the company has updated drivers and it is just super reliable. I just bought…

My first computer was an Apple IIe, which of course used 5.25” diskettes. Later, I had a 386 with 3.5” drives. I loved those 3.5” disks, they made a satisfying clunk when you pushe…

The truth is out there.

To leech, leeching and to be a leecher has been around since people used to download warez. It far predates torrents. I remember a local sysop in the 80s who ran an Apple II ASCII …