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It’s the same reason as the third-party app API changes: prevailing forces within the company want to know that for every X API requests made, Y targeted ads were put in front of e…

Also being a wealthy software engineer, there still isn’t a better multi-monitor mobile solution than this at any price point. If you’re only working from home sure, but I like to …

The most sensible option is that we remove academic credentials from job qualifications entirely. We’ve increasingly introduced non-credentialed ways to learn, and we have non-cred…

Based on the actual article, it's more like "the more cats owned, the more liberal/progressive/socialist men vote and behave, and the more conservative/tribal/fascist women vote an…

1) Having worked for a company that did this (after learning that it was an anti-pattern at a previous company)... Putting all Protobuf files in a single "registry"/repo is definit…

I would add that clubs, gyms, and meetups are a good, often free or very cheap option as well. Running, biking, skateboarding, climbing, calisthenics/acrobatics, board games, maker…

These features aren’t each supported by all those languages though. I also don’t think expecting a dev interested in Rust to understand several C-like languages is unreasonable, at…

Presumably it starts well below that, reaching $190K mid-career. And it’s still less than I make as a software engineer with an undergrad state school CS degree that left me only $…

I mean, had we gone to nuclear power immediately as soon as we could, we likely wouldn't be where we are today. The window isn't that narrow. But there are definitely certain aspec…

I’m shocked to not see Flutter supported here. It’s not truly truly native I guess. But Dart is very modern and capable and the Flutter framework is better for building native UIs …

In Ruby it’s “require” rather than “import.” But it would be more like “require bar; foo()”. However, Ruby does have auto-loading conventions. So you could define “module Baz{ modu…

For most Americans, exposure to outside cultures will happen much more through reading about them or interacting with, say, foreign exchange students and foreign cultural social gr…

You actually have the option to just use any USB-C charger in the 3 USB-C ports though, at least on my work 14-inch M1 Pro MBP. I just keep the MagSafe charger in my backpack, beca…

I've paid $40/year for RoboKiller (the source of the data in this article) since 2020, and consider it worth every penny. For reference, I was a long-time Pixel user before then wh…

It does: I've used RoboKiller (who provided the data from the article) since I switched to iPhone in 2020 and missed the Google Assistant stuff from my Pixel. It has a free and a $…

If you've got complex high-performance rendering requirements, nothing compares to Flutter. I tried building my app BeatScratch ( https://beatscratch.io/app ) in RN, and performanc…

Somewhere in here, there's a general (not-just-computer-science) lesson to be learned about certifications and hierarchies owned by private corporations vs. those owned by the peop…

At some point we'll realize that all income tax is regressive, and that property/wealth taxes (including on owned stocks, crypto, etc.) are the only thing that makes sense. Cash, f…

Um, is your argument that "we could technically classify these random other things as 'privilege' if we really stretch the word, therefore more obviously problematic things related…

I just got 5/6 with just my MacBook Pro speakers (but am a musician). "Bigger and stronger" is kind of an asinine way to describe the difference though. Was "you hear more subtle d…

This is the endgame of putting JS/programmability (rather than just markup) in browsers at all. HTML and CSS are great for formatting documents. But, in spite of years of jQueries,…

Eh, I make well over twice what they offered now, still live in a MCOL area that I love, am set to retire early having grown up in a poor area in a poor family for the area, and am…

I interviewed there a couple years back. They loved me but the culture seemed pretty clearly to be "we are the elite of the elite reporters, and software engineers are brainless mi…

When you get into how music editing works these two things are actually very much related. I’ve built a multi platform Flutter app that basically uses the “music theory” concepts o…

Seems like only a few groups tried to silence this because it was demonstrably fake news. Others are happy to play it up. This is more like the type of journalism that put Hitler i…