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Not just techbro/hipsters: programmers have huge egos, when in reality they are just mediocre tradesmen. Like your typical construction worker. There are 10,000 hammer swingers for…

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This is actually pretty funny. I coded javascript for a solid ~18 years (I stopped about 3 years ago) and the majority of the concerns in this list are from the past 10 years. What…

What do you think I'm talking about? OP pruned the comments out of github and put the code on the page w/o them. I didn't click to the github page. Still confused?

Oh, I didn't follow that link, I was just reading the blog. Those are decent comments, too bad they were nixed for the blog.

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My original post was about the futility of debating RISC vs CISC, supporting OP. The idea that RISC has very few instructions that are near register-level single-cycle: load/store/…

The reply is an obvious troll. Whenever someone yawns at your post, dismisses, and then decides to be the arbiter of what constitutes valid (classic fallacy), walk away. Proof? Oth…

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It is NOT feature hell. That is an absolutist/purist standpoint that only gets in the way in my experience. Products evolve to fit their market, which is literally why products are…

It is fascinating that semantic confusion over RISC vs CISC persists since I was in college in the 80's. It is largely meaningless. The naive idea behind RISC is essentially to red…

Super wobbly. Looks like the structure holding the rotors together has a lot of flex in it. Makes my engineering brain panic. I could see this being a rescue device for difficult t…

I hate wasting ui space by forcing every application to use their window real estate for a menu bar. There should be only one menu bar in the same location that changes when the co…

What is “massive multitasking”? Any modern OS since the 2000s has been running hundreds of processes.

It’s nothing of the sort. It’s the kind of reply you’d get if you tried to answer a exam question with nonsense words that doesn’t advance the conversation, at least intellectually…

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Good point. I don't understand their claims, and I don't have a horse in this race, but I'm really interested to understand the mechanism in more detail if it turns out to be corre…

The article points out that the researchers have a premise grounded in science for their correlation. That's the difference between shouting "correlation doesn't equal causation" a…

The boomers were all about not selling out until they did and became the Man. GenX are now wrinkly tattooed grey hairs that still wear skater clothes while eyeing their 401ks.

It is branding. Pokémon and Harry Potter started the trend of extending kid things into adult life. Comic franchises pounced. Star Wars went 15 years without a sequel then saw the …

Who is this "many" you speak of? And why are you chiding the hype machine for not including Oracle in its acronym? Put aside the online rags trying to grab eyeballs and look at inv…

> It is not a good way to organize that data for human recall and reference. Yet here I am: using them for recall and reference faster than hierarchies (after 30+ years of using bo…