shorner

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by shorner 5y ago
Now that you mention it, I think there's a real lack of grandmas in tech... maybe I shouldn't be saying this publicly, but we don't have any at our company.
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by shorner 5y ago
I think it's a fair question - hardware companies have recalled and replaced dangerous components before. I got a free replacement battery from Apple in the mid 2000's when they said that a batch of their batteries had a "sma
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by shorner 5y ago
Unrelated, but there was a time when I vastly preferred Microsoft Entourage and Microsoft Word on a Mac to the Windows versions. They both had features that their windows counterparts didn't for quite a while! Then they unified the tea
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by shorner 5y ago
alternative for 4. open Preview, and use Annotate->Signature to configure a signature to drop in straight on your Mac.
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by shorner 5y ago
These comments cover it pretty much, but also relevant was that it was quite rare for women to own land as it would often transfer to the family (ie. husband) on marriage (essentially, heiresses), or to male heirs on death (or only to only-
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by shorner 5y ago
There's a column-statue on a hill in rural Wiltshire (England) of a widowed trader named Maud Heath who made a causeway for traders to get to and from their nearest market town. The details of the story vary depending on the source or
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by shorner 6y ago
Or just generally starchy code? Now I just want to figure out all of the food analogies for bad code patterns...
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by shorner 6y ago
I can safely assume that, having clicked that link, I'm going to get a slew of interesting amazon recommendations
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by shorner 6y ago
Plus - someone's got to make those robots! Then we're into the "AI" conversation, where I think the general public think we're a lot closer to AI than we really are... Just because we have 90% reliable speech recogn
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by shorner 6y ago
I think there's been a much bigger change in (particularly front end) web development over the last decade, and that's that the underlying technology is now a lot less experimental. Wind back to 2010, and websockets was new and fu