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I don't think VSCode is going away. It's built on Electron[1] and performs quite adequately for me, personally. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

My experience is with bikes you can easily take one hand off the bike to signal a turn - what your traffic intention is. But with the scooters, it's not really possible to take you…

> the same risk with conventional bikes I think the scooters are riskier in some ways. My experience is with bikes you can easily take one hand off the bike to signal a turn - what…

Coupon books are used in France. One coupon for each candidate. Voters privately choose a coupon from the book at the poll site and put it in an envelope. They're distributed and c…

I've heard it said, "A data scientist is a better statistician than a typical programmer and a better programmer than a typical statistician." I 'graduated' from the Data Analyst N…

>XML is a better format than JSON. That's quite absolutist - I can see why you see it as an unpopular idea. For me, the context where a tool is used is key. XML is good if you have…

Thanks for the link. I like their disclaimer: >Here at Veridian Dynamics, we care about you. That's why, by visiting this site, you agree to suspend all of your rights. Because we …

A bit oversimplified, but in France, voters are essentially given a printed coupon book, with each candidate on a different coupon. They just take their coupon/candidate of choice …

I'm a huge fan of ZMM and I enjoyed Lila - where he elucidates a metaphysics of quality. His writing is brilliant, but my theory is that he may have experienced mental distress, in…

What is the maximum disk space for this offering? Amazon's RDS peaks out at just 6TB currently.

Ruby on Rails or Node.js for the backend (API) and React for the front end. Rails is excellent for database migrations. Postgresql / MongoDb / Firebase for the database, depending …

Very nice - wish list items: adding css version numbers and browser compatibility.

As a US driver living in France, I can share just the anecdote that French driving far less pleasant, more stressful, and feels more dangerous due to its narrow traffic lanes. I ca…

I'm curious if they looked into pf / CARP as part of their research into allowing horizontal scalability for an ip. See: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html

A very detailed breakdown of the basics of 'explain analyze' with various examples.

FYI Amazon RDS now supports Postgresql: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

You could try text top :): https://github.com/tombh/texttop

For fun you could try texttop: https://github.com/tombh/texttop

The Geo API allows it to work like a search engine. On my wish list would be adding a bounding box query to return results within a map displayed on the current screen: e.g.: https…

I've been perfectly content using RVM https://rvm.io/ - with all the functionality I need, and reliability, too. What am I missing out on?

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