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What is Dutch food anyway? Bitterballen? Just some salted fish on a thin slice of rye? Seems like everyone there in your neck of the woods eats Italian basically? I spent a solid m…

We were extremely lucky, yes. Not to mention he was Jewish and being born, say, even just 15 years later than he was, could've meant he'd have ended up in concentration camp and we…

There was less competition but it was also tremendously difficult to even see what others are doing, or to learn from them, or to even talk to them....just being in possession of s…

We can't prove that. It feels good to believe it, sure, but it's also possible that precisely zero people working in sweatshops have ever had Einstein's talent. Sure, it's easy to …

I think people are getting hung up too much on the "their own" part vs "full of geniuses" part. Ok, fine, if three - instead of one - people - out of billions - came up with a revo…

And yet - why are so few others capable of standing on the shoulders of said giants? Here I am, with more giants' shoulders to stand on, if I wished it, with easy access to vast we…

>But you can't fire people because you think they probably have the wrong opinions based on things they said 5 years ago, that's Soviet level repression. "Soviet level repression" …

If you started your adult life with the same help from Daddy that Trump had - and did nothing , literally besides putting all of that money into an index fund - you’d be richer tha…

Go back in time a thousand years and tell people that one day man will fly faster than a bird and land on the moon. FTL is not impossible. The only thing physics say is that you ca…

What happens? You become the most-widely used language on the planet? The Python 2-3 wars are over. Python 3 won.

backwards compatibility is a bitch. But yes, there's a reason why high-visibility C++ projects like Chrome basically white-list 30% of the language and keep it that way, to some sm…

> on their most important product. If Ubuntu depended on random users pointing their browsers to ubuntu.com and then clicking a download link to download and burn an ISO, they'd be…

I think it's a pretty mediocre language because of the compiler intrinsic data structures and functions like maps and slices that cannot be created by the language proper. It can b…

If your application needs support for new emojis or some dead language, then yes.

So everyone is equally empowered to make decision on the strategic direction of the company? If I got hired tomorrow at Google, I should just be able to decide to kill off Android …

>Avoid inheritance. Once an object is instantiated, don't change its internal state. etc. Just embrace Clojure then. You get all that enforced for you, plus the entire Java eco-sys…

> but simplicity trumps doing either of those things well. That's the genius (?) of Go. They gave us what we didn't know we needed. Software people love the "manliness" that comes …

Twenty years ago, I'd have been more willing to agree with that. I could see the US Gov't as some sort of sinister, hyper-competent (and even malevolent?) force that could definite…

And after the tribunals are setup and operational and people are getting executed - would it be enough then? Or not quite yet still? What's your "this is enough, guys" point? Do yo…

So what do we do instead? Just continue down this path until 75% of Americans "feel oppressed" and that "BLM and Antifa and Democrats are Marxists and enemies of the people"? Yeah?…

I'm not sure anyone in the (near) future will be able to guarantee you some sort of "right" that you can host/publish whatever you want and not be held accountable. America is a co…

I’ve been using docked on macOS for the past 5 years and it’s been quite pleasant. I had a few times when CPU was spiking and that was fixed with subsequent patches. Definitely ove…

That's Electron for ya. We decided that javascript was thew ay to write cross-OS UI's. God help us.

There's probably a middle ground but you know that within a day of making it optional, the various "Clean my Mac" utilities will have an option to disable it and soon enough instea…