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Re:Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:22AM (#48881861)
It is an amazing museum. Highly encourage anyone passing through Stockholm to check it out.
Re:The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps? on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:30AM (#46263266)
Most of ours are internal-only because we don't need or want to release them to the public. Sometimes there isn't much of an UI - they're one-off vibe-coded apps for specialized functions within our organization meant for a small number of people. Beginning to think of the vibe-coded apps akin to spreadsheets with lots of macros.
Re:Learn Prolog Now on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:06PM (#45903493)
Learn it now? I learned back in the 80s... and have since forgotten
Re:Monodraw on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:53AM (#45041360)
Own it, love it... corporate standard is Lucidchart but prefer Monodraw.
Re:Careless People on Thursday April 24, 2025 @07:54AM (#43781623)
Have you heard the stories about Uber?
Yeah, anyone remember this book about it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown
I wrote a paper on the NW Hospital case that involved FBI investigation http://www.planetheidi.com/Pompon-VB2010.pdf
Re:Cult of the Dead Cow Publications on Sunday November 09, 2014 @12:05PM (#8580257)
I remember seeing these guys at Defcon for the release of Back Orifice 2k. Full-on rockstars
Yeah, the problem we found is that when we switched to non-American English, Siri expects us to be speaking it as well... and messes up what she understands.
Re:Boxee Will Soon Be Open To All on Monday December 22, 2008 @10:45PM (#407236)
Boxee? No Muffee?
Re:Can You Build An Enterprise Only Web App? on Friday September 12, 2008 @04:26PM (#302656)
Yup. Already did and made (and continue to make) millions on it. The Enterprise is a vertical and the app serves that vertical and that vertical has deep pockets.