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The type of questions you are mentioning are basically saying different people would need different configuration options and come up every time you design any complex technical fe…

I don't use tiktok myself, but from what I've seen their core user group is (mostly young) people doing irresponsible and silly things to get views on the platform. I don't think s…

Thanks for the link, I didn't know that was a thing. Having said that, this sounds like "Hey guess what? We are gonna snoop on you, and profile the hell out of you and leak all of …

It's scary to think that a company that seem to have a decent policy on privacy / data collection practices at one moment is just one step away from some marketing manager or MBA c…

> Most enrollees will finish in six months or less I am not convinced that you can learn the skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective software engineer in six months. Howe…

This is because the US labor laws are messed up. In other countries, you get paid overtime even if you are salaried.

How fair is this valuation? If I invest $1300 to buy 0.026% of your house, does that mean it's worth $5 million now?

One of the examples on invalidating cache on write has the following code, which is buggy. If the DB call fails, then cache cache would have data that was never actually committed.…

Are there any guidelines on how to prevent such incidents in the future where management overrules engineers /subject matter experts because of deadlines / profit etc ? Can we lear…

Does IMAP clients handle Gmail labels well? Last time I tried to use an IMAP client it treated all the labels as separate folders.

In an ideal world the latter would be best. However in practice systems tend to get complicated over time as they evolve and more features etc.. are added. I think one way to look …

Wow, didn't expect them to spend so much money on marketing. Given that they are now registered as a public benefit corporation wouldn't this money be better spent as "scholarships…

This article is just marketing material for one of their products, TiDB.

> never actually read the ISO 8601 spec ... because it's not free I was very surprised to discover this. Why are they charging money for the specification of a date format? I would…

I am not an economist, but as an engineer 356% doesn't mean much without knowing what the breaking point is. What is the upper limit on the debt/GDP ratio? What system parameters w…

> Don’t confuse money with wealth, which is a separate concept that underpins this system. How would you differentiate between the two?

Not sure why parent is being down-voted as I believe this is an important point. In my opinion this would be applying the unix philosophy of having small tools that does one thing …

How do they plan to load/unload cargo containers from this ship? At most of the worlds ports cargo containers are loaded and unloaded from the above the ship using dock craines, bu…

>but I've never experienced the similar problem. How do you know for sure that you didn't? One of the main takeaways from the original article is that these errors are invisible fr…

Any thoughts on getting your own domain and then still using gmail for receive email on that domain?

>It just means that if there were, say 100 shares of a company, and 120 shares sold short, it would be "120%" short. But all this means is that there are 220 shares "owned" by othe…

> There's Canada as an example case. We have ~10x the population of Canada, and California alone could use up all of Canada's medicines. Not sure Canada would go for it. Depends on…