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kolderman··on MongoDB switches up its open source license
What does "switches up" mean?
kolderman··on Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid
What makes you assume YC has no ethical basis for investment?
kolderman··on Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (1999)
That thumbwheel...someone was on crack.
kolderman··on A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]
Oh that Select. Yawn.
kolderman··on Tyndall F-22s, Left Behind Before Michael Hit, Possibly Damaged Beyond Repair
Does that $1b replacement cost include the cost of restarting the f22 assembly line?
kolderman··on The Magic Leap Con
coughhydrogen onecough
kolderman··on Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
Why is this a bad thing? A working abort system is a very good thing. Rockets fail.
kolderman··on Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
Doesn't JavaScript compile down to WebAss? Isn't that the point?
kolderman··on Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network
Replace y with x and shuffle some letters and you have Netflix.
kolderman··on Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousands of Java threads
Good luck with hundreds of JVM threads.
kolderman··on Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
Can I search for +hotdogs again now?
kolderman··on 5G Got me Fired
> He is the Alex Jones of tech.

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

kolderman··on Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
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...

kolderman··on 10 years of gog.com
Please don't shut down, please don't stop providing the DOS compatible original game files, ever.
kolderman··on Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)
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.
kolderman··on In El Chapo’s Trial, Extraordinary Steps to Keep Witnesses Alive
So how's the current approach working out for you?
kolderman··on In El Chapo’s Trial, Extraordinary Steps to Keep Witnesses Alive
You're right, it isn't - and that's why the military solution exists.
kolderman··on In El Chapo’s Trial, Extraordinary Steps to Keep Witnesses Alive
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.

kolderman··on A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management
I entirely disagree. You have have the most well thought out, architected, designed system in the world with:

if (i=0) {

kolderman··on A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management
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.

kolderman··on Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
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.

kolderman··on Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)
Arguably followed by a , or -.
kolderman··on Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet
Isn't a millennial getting married today only 18 years old? A career established person might have been born in 1980 or earlier.
kolderman··on Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
Be as evil as possible.
kolderman··on Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees
VR is dying like 3D TV...expect lots 'o shills to be out selling the message.
kolderman··on John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”
His right to free speech? Sure I am.
kolderman··on Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
Evernote is a company?
kolderman··on x86 finds its way into the iPhone
But what core? Intel Atom?

And does this mean it can run Doom?

kolderman··on Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
Google has been doing this for years. I installed an ad blocker specifically to clean up Google search results, they look much better now.
kolderman··on Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon
In Australia the word for Amazon is "eBay", and you can sometimes even get next day delivery!
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