I’m glad you beat me to this. I’m a managed service provider, meaning that I bill by the hour and I cycle through clients. I have one client in particular who just wants me around several days a week so they can get a quick response if something happens. I have a lot of downtime and I love the chance to work on…

Back when I was working in IT, I’d get requests almost every week from a co-worker or my bosses to work on their personal technology—and sometimes even fix their friends’ or family members’ laptops or phones. Sometimes promises of a pizza or a small payment would be suggested, but even then it seemed inappropriate.…

The explanation is a lot more benign.

They’re stored as hashes, anyway, and the hash for everyone’s password - no matter what it is - is the same length. So it’s literally a completely arbitrary and insecure requirement.

I think a lot of it is just about having a little mobile kit with you, then you can do just about anything you could with any other Arduino

Cutting the cord won't ever work if you want to watch everything, but that's not really the point, right? It's more about deciding on what's worth paying for that you do want to watch, then deciding if that's worth it for you. I haven't had cable in 10 years, and I'm fine with the choices I have—and also fine with…

Not really feasible as you have it. Open up a terminal window and throw in a rm- Rf / and you'll just a bunch of permission denied errors. Even if you try just to kill your home folder by replacing / with ~, you can't do it.

The infographic was saved as a jpeg when it should have been png...

Google Now's accuracy is a byproduct of Google's monopoly on search. This enables them to build a massive index of cross-referenced data about anything that appears on the web, and then constantly to "train" a knowledge graph of it through usage of personal data and invisible feedback when people use its product set…

I've been told my signature looks like the symbol for Pi because I basically just write a T then half-ass an H and give up

Same. My handwriting was pretty bad as a kid, but then when I went into middle school most things had to be typed. As such, I have the handwriting of a sloppy 10-year-old.

Are you kidding me? I'm glad I don't work at your office.

They are not paying. To my knowledge the mandatory disclosure laws are still in place online, which means if someone pays you to write about a product it has to be disclosed legally. The Kreg jig is what I actually use to make pocket screws, so that's how I'll write a how-to about it! Looking online for cheaper…

Dude, I USE a Kreg jig. For years. So when I explain pocket screws with images from my shop... you see a Kreg jig. You can google "pocket screw jig" if you would like other, cheaper options. I did mention that they exist, but I'm not going to link to, explain, or vouch for any method I don't use in a how-to article…

Hey, unless it's my own house, I don't judge how people want to "fix" the issues in their houses in a way that is acceptable to them. What I would say is that I personally will only ever recommend a process to fix something that gets me an end result that is as seamless and durable as the original. A little raised and…

Ok so help. I live about five miles from my work and it's Texas summer right now. And I've been considering getting a bike (or a motorcycle or a scooter) for my daily commute.

Given the very high decibel of the waambulance in this thread, I'm guessing I'm in the minority that thinks (no pun intended I double-dog, inky-pinky swear):

…will launch Safari as if you had double-clicked its icon in the Finder. Recall that OS X apps are not true executables, but actually special directories (bundles) with the extension .app. open is the only way to launch these programs from the command line. It can also launch other files that are truly bundles, such…

How about skip buying ice cream then so you can save for the future?

If I had to pay rent with ice cream, I'd be thinking about that damn bite for weeks.