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Apple settled a class-action lawsuit over their power adapters, which makes it much easier to receive a free replacement these days, but they seem to refuse to fix the design of the cords.

If this defense had any merit, then there should be far better options in large American cities. This is not the case.

Ironically, all of the software for From NAND to Tetris is written in Java.

Why are so many of you upset by this?

"Tim’s Vermeer tells the story of one man’s obsession to accomplish the near impossible, and paint a Vermeer with almost no art skills what-so-ever. Along the way he may prove that one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age could have used unforeseen technology advances to create some of the greatest regarded paintings of all time. And while the film is about one man’s journey, it is also an exploration of the intersection of art and technology — If Vermeer invented and used advanced technology to help create his art, was he 'cheating'? Is the art somehow less incredible knowing the process?"

Online startups comprise a small portion of all small businesses. Most small businesses do not rely on Google.

The building appears to be better than average, but the workspaces look pretty horrible.

LLPs are not LLCs.

The difference is the impact that corporations have on the world.

What does Blackberry's supposed great security actually entail?

The problem is that many people in our industry lie or stretch the truth a bit. Some of them are even good at bullshitting about it.

I work with several people who have over a decade of experience with "mission critical" applications and do not have the commensurate skills.

Their enterprise license is pretty comparable in price to something like Perforce, which does not include hosting. Do you also find Atlassian's Stash pricing to be high?

HIPAA covers far more than privacy.

Many of us who have had jobs for a long period of time know exactly what problems need solving and how to solve them. What the market wants is not always a mystery.

Dr. Winston Royce came to this conclusion over 40 years ago. Unfortunately people read his paper and developed the Waterfall methodology instead. See Step 3:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/wate...

I do not get it.

"That mobile device don't work 4 Rich. Use a real machine."

I wonder whether your coworkers enjoy being interrupted frequently.