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Beware of Chrome Desktop Apps With Multiple Accounts
If you use multiple Google accounts and try Google’s new Chrome Desktop Apps, particularly Hangouts, be sure to install it on all of your Google accounts. I realized this when my USB headset “stopped...
View ArticleThe Amiga turns 30: Remember when computing was fun?
Visiting amiga30.com confronted me with a question: “Remember when computing was fun?” Yes. I do. Painfully so. In 1996, I bought myself an Amiga 1000 for my birthday. In 1993, I was part of the 75%...
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No, I do NOT want to upgrade to Windows 10 AGAIN, and please stop asking!
Last weekend I gave in to my desire to keep software fresh and upgraded to Windows 10. The upgrade wasn’t smooth. I expected multiple restarts and lots of twiddling and driver updates, but the last...
View ArticleSouth in real space, back in LGBT time?
As I pack for three months in Little Rock, I’m troubled by a new wave of anti-LGBT activity in the South. North Carolina and Alabama have passed anti-equality laws; Georgia’s governor, Nathan Deal,...
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The Conventional Business Plan As The Price of Admission
Ready for Business: Monkey Business This week’s @hubxlifescience homework is developing a Lean Business Model Canvas for our companies. I’ve started reading the book behind the spreadsheet, and I’m...
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Interesting video interview about microservices standardization
This short video interview (link below) with Susan Fowler, a Site Reliability Engineer at Uber, is worth watching for a few reasons: Standardization in microservices is a frontier needing some taming...
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XKCD on Time and The Programmer
This. Me. Ask anybody I’ve worked with. Ask everybody I’m working with now. Actually, either side of the conversation works for me. Source: xkcd: Supervillain Plan Looking for a great Java library to...
View ArticleThere’s no place like home. Some of the time.
After two years of working from home full time, I was eager to get back into the office. According to Bloomberg, early corporate adopters of telecommuting are changing their minds about the practice...
View ArticleOne More New Year’s Resolution For You: Use ISO-8601.
End The Persistence of Bad Date Formats! Top among my pet peeves as both programmer and general human is date formatting. Having lived through the nonpocalypse of Y2K (because we fixed lots of crap...
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How Bloomberg just lost the IT vote
From today’s rat in the White House to tomorrow’s new Rat City experiment? I’ve struggled with the shades of grey in Democratic candidates’ polices like on healthcare: Medicare for all? For all who...
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