johnorourke

Worth a read, it makes some really good points. But there's nothing new under the sun - I did laugh and felt old at reading "This sort of attack on people’s expression started on platforms like TikTok"... the author wasn't even conceived when Compuserve/AOL users had to avoid using "breast cancer" and "scunthorpe".

Top notebook tip from a fellow lefty - flip the book, start at the back and write on the left hand page.

I did the same, but sync takes it to another level - the conflict resolution is far better, especially when you have it on both desktop and mobile, and for multiple users on a team you can work on the same doc at the same time without worrying or having to check if Dropbox is working. Add the version history and it's a no-brainer.

Brings back memories! I used it in 1996 to build an e-commerce site in Perl v4.

"died by suicide" is just a modern replacement for "committed suicide", because that phrase dates back to when it was a crime, so it's regarded as making the victim look bad.

Years ago, this used to happen a lot because registrars could grab a domain for a short period without any cost - so some of them would see you searching for a domain, and hold it, then try to make you buy it at a higher cost. I don't deal with domains any more, but I thought ICANN had put a stop to that practice.

I remember downloading this on a 9.6kbaud modem from a local BBS... and being absolutely blown away by it! My little brother played it to death, so much so that it inspired my first attempt at a game - "kill jazz", where you simply kill Jazz many times over.

> A boss will never talk to you if there is any kind of problem with your productivity, they will fire you and that's it

I feel sorry for you having experienced that culture... this is not normal behaviour for good companies, and they do exist.

Article doesn't answer question... it vaguely talks about search, defaults, threats but you have to kind of infer and guess what is actually written in the judgement. I wanted to read "the judgement says xxx which means xxx will happen which causes xxx".

I have more questions after reading than before!

RRDTool was the generalised version of the TSDB that was born for the specific use case, MRTG. It could be used for anything. Hopefully I've remembered that correctly!

The Zapiers of this world do not disagree.. they've built the hub and all the apps are spokes on their wheel. Engineers know that abstractions only help to create good architectures and high-level understanding, but they don't actually make the magic happen on the ground.