TremendousJudge

oil is an extremely liquid asset. and not just literally

spotify web uses flash

good thing we nipped that one in the bud, and now we are not embracing another opaque, unsearchable mangle of blobs as the next new thing

if you have a piece of software that only one guy is actually willing to touch, maybe it's time for something new

Just look at JavaScript

turns out it's very hard to model a thing that we don't know how it actually works

I've never seen anyone comment on this, but games used to cost $60 15 years ago and $60 today, but back then it was more money due to inflation. If they sell the same number of copies at full pri…

>if something goes kaboom, it only impacts that system And its users. Unless you're the one living in the house (in which case I agree, do whatever you want) there has to be a certain guarante…

>Your Parliament basically tells you how to write your software Buildings have strict construction codes, and this improves the overall quality of buildings. If developing software is to be more li…

ironically, image hosting sites being crap was the reason imgur was created in the first place. turns out you have to pay the bills somehow

>Some kinds of money surely existed before anything recognizable as a "state" I wouldn't be so sure. As far as I know, current academic consensus is that in primitive societies, wher…

Its spirit lives on as Mozilla though

>nothing a Javascript app in the browser can't do. not being written in Javascript is a great advantage

And a week later Chrome is back to being the default, since Google pushes it like it was malware. They learned a lot from toolbar installers

I use f.lux, it's fantastic: https://justgetflux.com/ Much better than the native solutions that come with operating systems nowadays…

>jeans are all over the spectrum, but unless they are obviously from a giant bin at a discount store, probably are at least $100, likely above $200 per pair. what? levis are like 40 bucks on amazon…

>If you always dress casually then you never dress casually I can't go naked to work

well that closes the case then

Here's my theory: most people don't actually understand what having access to your data means. I learned this some years ago when I wrote a little tool that surveyed the people connected to …

typo: >To remedy the horizontal stretching, the Mercator Projection stretches the globe out in the vertical direction an equal amount to the stretching in the vertical direction.

weird, basically everyone I know says it's the best in the series

Can anyone give me alternatives to Google Charts? I've tried plotly and I think it's unwieldy for consumer facing plots. Plus the documentation is worse

...is there someone out there who did this?

who uses 128 kbit/s mp3 these days? the lowest I find are 192

I think you can't after the anniversary update

the constraints are not getting whopped by the other guy. you can try everything that falls inside the rules (no biting, kicking in the nuts, and so on), and your constraints are how good the other gu…

>take out alcohol that one worked out beautifully last time around

>The more pointless the job, the higher the pay This doesn't mean that the higher the pay the more pointless the job, even though that's what they imply at the end

>Social engineering, through bribery or blackmail. Also known as "Plain old electoral fraud"