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@hfrazey Could also spell HET but that's also not correct.

Ordered jeweled letters to make a pronoun necklace. One letter was secretly out of stock. Looking forward to my THE necklace.

Having lots of proprietary stuff isn't a selling point for me.

Natural language API, you know because getting shit wrong is better than having users learn how to ask.

In a meeting with Hitachi and I gotta say, I get kinda nervous when they talk about IoT intelligence.

Erasure coding sounds like something else.

Don't mind me, I was just anonymously mentioned on NPR this morning...

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"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.

Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."

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Did it ever occur to you that 90% of useful stuff on the web for solving our problems started with someone asking for help?

I bought a Roku just to have the NBC Sports App for the Olympics. Joined YouTube TV for the month to get access.

Some people's tone makes me want to reply with "first off, I'm not stupid, but..."

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@joshmillard My bltcoin is based on how many sandwiches I eat in a month.

@brennen So true. You should think, huh, that's funny...

@brennen Yeah, I bet the super common library that's been out for almost a decade has a buffer overrun bug. Yeah.