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What did you learn?

Does chatGPT now have a Reddit plugin?

Many would agree, but it's not relevant to the free speech debate It's the same logic as those who made the "this guy kinda sucks though" argument based on George Floyd's criminal …

Maybe the company won the deal because the CTO and CPO said "yep - we can do that in 12 weeks" whereas the competitor said "we need to confer with our building teams to estimate th…

Joking aside, Something I find fascinating about ancient wisdom literature that has been in circulation for centuries - honed and refined generation after generation, is how succin…

I've hired a lot of people over the course of my career, and questions like this would be a major red flag. I'd pass on the candidate. Completely fine to ask how performance is mea…

Former Enron employee here - I have some swag I was given when I first started (lunch kit, values booklet, etc. Also have some golf shirts and baseball caps. Worth anything?

Now hearing about "data lake houses"....

Related - cool "circular economy" company in Vancouver that collects chopsticks from restaurants and, using a similar process, makes some pretty amazing stuff: https://chopvalue.co…

Awesome - thanks!

Love the Icicle charts. Anyone know if they will become available in Ploty.js?

Plotly is fantastic - great to see another release. Have been using it to integrate charts into Oracle Application Express (APEX), which works really well, and provides for much mo…

I feel there are people who have found healthy balance between not using Twitter at all and "focus everything through the lens of the twitterverse".

>>I simply don't inhabit it, and I don't feel that I'm missing out. I've wondered about this - but how do you know what you are missing out on? For example, if you were active on t…

So you'd ban MS Access? Why do people use it as opposed to an "IT Sanctioned" tool? If you IT dept does not have time to provide the tools people need to do their jobs, and you tak…

Yes this happens...sometimes. And, other times, (as reflected in comments ITT), there are many cases where a low-code solution built by a non-dev have brought huge benefit. (I've s…

How is Catholics & Protestants killing each other for hundreds of years in Europe related to easy access to the vernacular English Bible?

Thank goodness for creative people who think of new and ingenious ways to use tools differently than originally intended. It's the heart of innovation.

All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them. ~Hold's Law ;-)

Even better: I optimized SQL queries for Nameless Corp to improve admin interface load times by 20%, which boosted profits by 20% .