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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 the cafeteria won't be completed?"

pets.com, webvan, drkoop, kozmo, garden.com ... ah, the memories.

Huh, #987fb1 is in both Best and Worst lists (at the time I viewed the ranks).

> 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 and their side effects.

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.

"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.

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 the testing has proven, that most of the people who get a little bit of cash are most likely to use it on food and essentials. Oh, and the people who run the for-profit drug testing happen to be cronies of the politicians who advocated for the testing - such a surprise.

Another example: Don't let people withdraw all their money at once or they will waste it. Instead give them debit cards with a small withdrawal limit. Oh, and there's a withdrawal fee that eats into the meager cash ... and cronies of the politicians who advocated for the policy own the ATMs in the stores which collect those fees.

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.

Wait, aren't you aware of the "It's not illegal if a billionaire does it" rule?

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...

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.

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...

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 payments). As long as you don't make a habit of doing it, you'll get your money back.

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 (which IBM called AIX), a port of BSD 4.3, or PICK OS. The RISC processor evolved into the Power series which is still around.

Huh. TIL. It seems I am but a few karma from having a downvote button. Interesting.

Frankly that was my reaction when I first heard of "google".

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

Typically it was a configuration option, to show Motif or OpenWindows mode.

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 middle of the scale can't be bothered with doing anything about their opinions.

Small point: LG is a Korean company, not Chinese.

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 "surely in my large stack you are violating something and surely in your large stack we are violating something." So then you would weigh or measure the height of the stack, and the owner of the smaller would pay some royalties to the owner of the larger.

This is an exaggeration of course, but perhaps not far off the mark.

Interesting, no one seems to be talking about SnapChat any more.

Dogs have been send into space

The IBM Selectric typewriter was ubiquitous in offices everywhere, and IBM copiers and printers were quite prevalent.

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.

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). It had a toggle switch in front that could boot it into a Basic interpreter or an APL interpreter.

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.

Safari user here: I didn't see any examples that didn't work.

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.

News flash: You can open a PDF with Word and edit it.