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stesch··on Germans in the race to bring electric cars to market
"it has no technology or business model that others can’t easily copy"

Well, Tesla even made their patents free for you to do so.

stesch··on MySQL utf8 vs. utf8mb4 – What's the difference between utf8 and utf8mb4?
"In UTF-8, characters are encoded using sequences of 1 to 6 octets." – RFC 2044 "UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646" from October 1996. (Obsolete. Current RFC is 3629 from 2003.)
stesch··on You don't need a grid framework on top of the CSS grid layout
I had to implement designs that were created with QuarkXPress. :-(
stesch··on Twitter Product Design Refresh
Round avatars look like shit if you haven't planned for it. A lot of big names now have to redesign their twitter photo.

See https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/875389431372533760

stesch··on Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS
Other platforms don't limit you to just one operating system.
stesch··on Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS
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stesch··on UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway
Fur fubhyq ona greebevfz.
stesch··on Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died
DISPLAY SPACES UPON CRT.
stesch··on Why Use Postgres?
Some people don't want to use SQL. Or learn it. Or read documentation.

The anti ORM movement convinced only a few interested database users.

stesch··on Hackers exploited Word flaw for months while Microsoft investigated
You are funny.
stesch··on Red Programming Language 0.6.2: LibRed and Macros
More comments in the dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13970884
stesch··on Ask HN: Best books on AI?
I had the feeling it was more of a Common Lisp book than AI book.
stesch··on 5 March 1981: The ZX81 home computer launches with 1kb memory
I was late to the home computer party. I sometimes wonder what would have been if I had started with a Z80 instead of a MOS6510.
stesch··on I just deleted 36K tweets
They want me to approve my e-mail address (again) and this process seems to be broken. No e-mail. Nothing in junk.

Well, …

stesch··on I just deleted 36K tweets
"As an experiment I downloaded my entire archive"

This is still possible? I've done this when the feature was new and tried it again a few weeks ago and there was nothing. Thought it is broken.

stesch··on SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff
The webcast showed T - 0:00:13
stesch··on Portal for Apple II
Apple ][

Or as we called it in Germany: Apple üä

(Switching to German characters changed the ] and [ to ü and ä.)

stesch··on Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
Doesn't work. Same problem.

But thanks for the tip about quarantine. I removed it from the folder and app with xattr and now I can start it.

stesch··on Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
Shouldn't right click and "Open" work? It doesn't work and I don't know if I want to disable gatekeeper.
stesch··on Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut
Even with the same URL this doesn't work every time.
stesch··on Inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center
Cheyenne Mountain? I thought they just have deep space telemetry there!?
stesch··on Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
Germany even had a chancellor with a pseudonym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt
stesch··on Google Noto Fonts
Nice.

I'm just the victim. Whenever I suspect the firewall to be the cause of a problem I use a proxy via a ssh tunnel. As long as it's not forbidden for me to actually solve problems.

The list of software that isn't usable behind a WatchGuard firewall (and maybe similar enterprise firewalls) is getting longer and longer. No Google fonts, no Drupal, no ShopWare 5.2, JIRA barely usable, etc.

stesch··on Google Noto Fonts
Filtering X-Frame-Options is bad for security. Filtering anti CSRF headers like in Drupal and ShopWare is bad for security.

But this seems to be the current reality with enterprise firewalls. :-(

(No, TLS doesn't help in the long run. If your boss wants to know which pages you are reading he will let the experts setup this: https://www.howtoforge.com/filtering-https-traffic-with-squi...)

stesch··on Google Noto Fonts
Fun fact: People behind a WatchGuard firewall (default settings) won't see Google fonts (at least in Firefox) because the firewall filters the CORS headers.
stesch··on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane
A switched off phone. Now airlines need to ban all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones. This hurts.
stesch··on Make with Ada: Redux
Current complaints are about the language not being free enough.

And kind of boring looking.

stesch··on John Carmack .plan Archive (2014)
In current times people feel uncomfortable fingering someone.
stesch··on Why I’m giving my company Election Day off
We get every election day off in Germany.
stesch··on How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users
And there is my co-worker … constantly on the phone with Google.

He is selling ads. And he gets lots of support.

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