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by coldcode 5y ago
I worked at a place that internal customers complained QA took too long, so IT said fine, we won't do any. Then they complained the software didn't work... people sure can be stupid.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Is there no legal support for challenging the source code of the product in the UK?
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by coldcode 5y ago
Because Apple cares a lot about their security, and the perception of security, and they have a lot of lawyers with nasty teeth. Using stolen unlicensed Apple technology to hack people's iOS devices is like eating a bear cub in front o
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by coldcode 5y ago
I too learned Postscript in 1988 and also figured out how to construct documents in Illustrator's file format (which is a precursor to PDF) so I could export to it. Postscript was a lot of fun to work in (although debugging required so
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by coldcode 5y ago
He invested in startups that failed miserably. Land clearing is how you turn bare land/forest/swamp into something people can build on. i.e he and his employees drive big construction equipment. Actually a profitable business in t
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by coldcode 5y ago
As an artist I actually like the crazy colorful tiles signs.
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by coldcode 5y ago
A friend of mine dropped out of college 1 semester short of a CS degree, wrote some iOS apps, sold them for a lot of money, started several software companies, wrote a book on how to do this, invested in several more startups and lost most
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by coldcode 5y ago
If you are a Russian "president" and have domestic troubles like a crappy economy and lots of Covid, always remember the 34th rule of acquisition "War is good for business".
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by coldcode 5y ago
At 2 meters tall, I think I'd have to sleep on deck.
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by coldcode 5y ago
That someone who wrote an iOS app with such a lame concept of security that anyone could dump the entire database (even if its only "public" data) in a script is not surprising, as most startups and even big companies don't g
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by coldcode 5y ago
I use Affinity Photo, and previously used Pixelmator; I don't miss any of Adobe's overpriced products.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Clearly this is a Texas only problem, given it works in much colder countries and States. Texas did not want to pay to winterize to maximize profits. Risk reward, a few hundred dead people once in a while vs. profits every year.
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by coldcode 5y ago
My mom grew up in Nazi Germany and never went to college. Yet for the last decade of her life she used email and web every day (iMac and then Mac mini) to explore the world (and sometimes actually go there). She didn't need the interne
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by coldcode 5y ago
That's been going on for many years. Brute force calling costs nothing. I've always wondered if charging 5 cents per call would stop them cold, but I am sure no one wants to implement that now.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Those are usually generated, they call numbers in area code/exchange randomly, assuming you will pick up something that seems familiar. Jokes on them, I moved to another state, easy for me to tell.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I was under the impression that SK was a technologically advanced country. I guess not the government then.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I get these sometimes, usually they want some bitcoin dumped in an address, and reference your "password" which is clearly one from an old account that was hacked. Usually I look online for the address and find the other people th
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by coldcode 6y ago
Former CEO my foot, he is just as in charge as ever; nothing happens without his approval.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Does not seem to work in Safari on Big Sur, all I see is js errors where the animations should be.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I learned Latin in a public high school in the 70's, took 3 years of it. The teacher taught us correct pronunciation as best he could. It was actually the most popular class in the whole school due to the quality of the teacher. Sadly
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by coldcode 6y ago
I will get excited when I see this making images bigger than 256 pixels.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Even when it's not crashing, the performance is terribly slow. Also the translations for English are mostly missing.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Everything is valued economically at whatever people will pay for it. But true value is independent of the price. Van Gogh sold almost nothing in his short 10 years of producing and killed himself because he thought he had no value and didn
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by coldcode 6y ago
I wonder how many cats every house needs to rid it of mice. Given the volume, I doubt there are enough cats in Australia to even make a dent.
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by coldcode 6y ago
For a site devoted to people who love technology this is short sighted thinking. People thought the iPhone was a gimmick too that would never sell. You are looking at a development model of an idea: what happen 10 years down the road when s
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by coldcode 6y ago
What should be illegal (or at least require treatment) is the behavior after taking drugs. Being drunk in your own home alone is one thing; getting behind the wheel of a car and driving is different. People have always wanted to hammer thei
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by coldcode 6y ago
Some people might call them the enemy, some say they should just leave them be, but they are someone's ancestors (or related), and those people should know what happened to them. My uncle died in WW2 and no one knows where (potentially
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by coldcode 6y ago
Probably because the new service does not actually require your personal info, whereas the previous service did. That would make it a GDPR issue. The message is not clear, but from what they did say, seems like it is.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I met Charlie in 1986 at the Apple Developers conference (at the Hilton on Nob Hill in SF); while we were all out on a boat Apple had hired for all the developers, I heard the whole story, including a hilarious bit about recording a cricket
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by coldcode 6y ago
When your founder and CEO makes growth the only thing that matters, everything else is not important. If selling people lies makes more money, sell more lies, etc. If Facebook charged people $1 a month per account, and deleted all the ads,

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