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by excitom 4y ago
I remember a story, perhaps apocryphal, of an Austin-based startup that crashed in 2000. At the company meeting where layoffs were announced, the floor was opened for questions. Someone asked "does this mean the rock climbing wall in t
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by excitom 4y ago
pets.com, webvan, drkoop, kozmo, garden.com ... ah, the memories.
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by excitom 4y ago
Huh, #987fb1 is in both Best and Worst lists (at the time I viewed the ranks).
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by excitom 4y ago
> It has a particularly strong use case in Finland which sees long and very cold winters, and was recently cut off from Russian gas supplies over a payments dispute. Well I guess that's one way to characterize war-related sanctions
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by excitom 4y ago
Trouble is, some calls go to voicemail that you really wanted - like the doctor's office with your test results or the shop telling you your car is ready.
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by excitom 4y ago
"The days of having entire websites rendered in neumorphism are behind us, but it will undoubtedly continue to have an influence. " Too bad. I personally think it's a huge improvement over flat design.
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by excitom 4y ago
It's not the fault of government per se, but puritanical conservatives in government who think any assistance to disadvantaged people is coddling lazy slackers. See for example, drug testing of assistance recipients. It turns out, as t
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by excitom 4y ago
I hosted my own email server from 1995 to 2010 (Solaris on a Sun IPC, sendmail and IMAP compiled from source). What finally drove me to move my domain to gmail was the spam.
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by excitom 4y ago
Wait, aren't you aware of the "It's not illegal if a billionaire does it" rule?
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by excitom 5y ago
I think the example of the Mongol conquests supports your point about the success of barbarism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E...
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by excitom 5y ago
I ran email servers for my personal domains in the 90s and early 2000s. What eventually caused me to move everything to gmail was the massive pain of dealing with spam and trying to keep up with the latest spam filtering, which is essential
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by excitom 5y ago
Tonga's Internet connectivity was knocked out by the blast and it won't be back for a while, thus making it hard to upload pictures. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tonga-likely-spen...
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by excitom 5y ago
And file a chargeback request with the credit card company - service paid for but not received. The "customer is always right" in this scenario (speaking as someone who has an Internet based business that accepts credit card payme
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by excitom 5y ago
A few years later IBM developed another UNIX variation on the RT PC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC ). It had a microkernel running on top of a RISC processor, and the microkernel hosted a port of UNIX System V
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by excitom 5y ago
Huh. TIL. It seems I am but a few karma from having a downvote button. Interesting.
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by excitom 5y ago
Frankly that was my reaction when I first heard of "google".
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by excitom 5y ago
I used to work for a very successful company that produced mobile games. The entire logic of the game, the rules, etc. was all in Excel
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by excitom 5y ago
Typically it was a configuration option, to show Motif or OpenWindows mode.
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by excitom 5y ago
NPS is a marketing tool. I agree it's misused in this case, but the people at the extreme ends of the scale DO matter. They are the ones who will passionately voice their opinions, write reviews, do blogs posts, etc. The people in the
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by excitom 5y ago
Small point: LG is a Korean company, not Chinese.
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by excitom 5y ago
I think what he is referring to is when two mega corps would get into an IP dispute, the lawyers would bring the patent portfolios to the table. It would not be feasible to actually read through them all, so the agreement would be "sur
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by excitom 5y ago
Interesting, no one seems to be talking about SnapChat any more.
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by excitom 5y ago
Dogs have been send into space
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by excitom 5y ago
The IBM Selectric typewriter was ubiquitous in offices everywhere, and IBM copiers and printers were quite prevalent.
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by excitom 5y ago
Ever go to a cannabis shop in California? Your driver's license is scanned. I don't know about the facial recognition part, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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by excitom 5y ago
I would agree that APL fits into the category of a "write-only" language, but it's amazingly powerful. My first project many years ago was working on the IBM 5100 "portable" computer (a 50 lb suitcase sized thing).
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by excitom 5y ago
Security I implemented in the 90's: Encode the client IP address into the cookie. Also include a timestamp to force re-authentication at some point. This isn't rocket science.
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by excitom 5y ago
Safari user here: I didn't see any examples that didn't work.
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by excitom 6y ago
Once when my daughter was 2 years old she needed an MRI. She was given Benadryl beforehand on the advice of the doctor to allow her to sleep through the procedure.
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by excitom 6y ago
News flash: You can open a PDF with Word and edit it.

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