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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:31PM (#18232975)
What does "switches up" mean?
Re:Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid on Monday October 15, 2018 @09:04PM (#18225567)
What makes you assume YC has no ethical basis for investment?
Re:Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (1999) on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:25PM (#18222257)
That thumbwheel...someone was on crack.
Re:A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf] on Sunday October 14, 2018 @04:34AM (#18211959)
Oh that Select. Yawn.
Does that $1b replacement cost include the cost of restarting the f22 assembly line?
Re:The Magic Leap Con on Saturday October 13, 2018 @06:02AM (#18207272)
coughhydrogen onecough
Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:13PM (#18197451)
Why is this a bad thing? A working abort system is a very good thing. Rockets fail.
Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @09:16PM (#18190352)
Doesn't JavaScript compile down to WebAss? Isn't that the point?
Replace y with x and shuffle some letters and you have Netflix.
Good luck with hundreds of JVM threads.
Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:11PM (#18171770)
Can I search for +hotdogs again now?
Re:5G Got me Fired on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:32PM (#18158382)
> He is the Alex Jones of tech.

Ha! I hope he responds to that on No Agenda.

I'm still on the April update. Skipped July update after all the issues there - thinking I'll just wait for the October issue where they will surely not make another mess of it.

Oh well, there's always 2019...

Re:10 years of gog.com on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @04:42AM (#18128557)
Please don't shut down, please don't stop providing the DOS compatible original game files, ever.
It was a software limit, inasmuch as the software wanted to run in real mode even though by 1989 you had a modern 32 bit cpu that had all the features to run Windows 10 today.
So how's the current approach working out for you?
You're right, it isn't - and that's why the military solution exists.
This is why the cartels should be treated like a military, not a legal problem.

Drone strikes, thermobaric bombs and an acceptable level of collateral damage.

There's plenty of El Chapos ready to take his spot, every decade or so you are able to actually arrest one of them.

Re:A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management on Sunday September 30, 2018 @07:30PM (#18109046)
I entirely disagree. You have have the most well thought out, architected, designed system in the world with:

if (i=0) {

Re:A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:32PM (#18107904)
Sounds like a classic case of "not thinking things through properly at the beginning".

I wonder how freeBSD engineered this...Linux appears to grow organically at times.

Re:Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:45AM (#18104505)
I still have the option to use old gmail thankfully.

They did the same thing to YouTube, however there is a nice Chrome extension to force the old version.

Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:31PM (#18096794)
Arguably followed by a , or -.
Re:Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:59PM (#18068784)
Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
Be as evil as possible.
Re:Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees on Sunday September 23, 2018 @03:16PM (#18052651)
VR is dying like 3D TV...expect lots 'o shills to be out selling the message.
Re:John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine” on Saturday September 22, 2018 @12:08AM (#18044400)
His right to free speech? Sure I am.
Re:Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @04:30AM (#18022738)
Evernote is a company?
Re:x86 finds its way into the iPhone on Friday September 14, 2018 @01:34PM (#17989160)
But what core? Intel Atom?

And does this mean it can run Doom?

Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:53PM (#17962288)
Google has been doing this for years. I installed an ad blocker specifically to clean up Google search results, they look much better now.
Re:Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:34PM (#17962174)
In Australia the word for Amazon is "eBay", and you can sometimes even get next day delivery!

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