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Thanks for the correction! It was a long time ago that I used TypeScript, and making things worse (for my memory) it was an Angular project. So today, most people and teams avoid t…

The other one I read about was parameter properties in constructors. And thank you for the correction! It was quite a few years ago that I used TypeScript, and I think the landscap…

That is true only if you confine your TS code to be pure JS plus type annotations. There are TS constructs that require compilation into equivalent JS, such as enums and namespaces…

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Location: Menlo Park, CA Remote: Yes, or hybrid if nearby Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, Post…

For anyone unfamiliar with the meat reference, here is Terry Bisson's delightful 1991 short-short story, "They're Made out of Meat": https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBoo…

Here's my cold email story. In the Netflix series The Good Place, there is an AI character named Janet, who helps assist people who have gone to that place where you go after you d…

What if I'm 74? ;-)

Excellent point! In fact I do have an automatic monthly donation to The Internet Archive. Of course the URLs all change in archived pages, but at least the content is there for any…

> I think that one should at least have one's own domain instead of example.substack.com. I thought about this question when I recently started writing a few articles on Substack. …

The classic version... There are two hard problems in Computer Science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.

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"does some heavy lifting"

Title should be corrected to the original: --- How doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us, but it should be --- Note to submitters: Check the title after submitting. If the HN a…

https://archive.ph/kY6Th > Getting an offer from Bending Spoons, which owns AOL [and Evernote and Vimeo], has become harder than getting into Harvard

The Bell System did this when dial telephone service was first introduced. They held town meetings with a giant rotary dial onstage where someone explained it and demonstrated how …

Here's a clickable link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gm9oSxKFKhNoDrahETs00At2...

This is a better article than the clickbait title suggests. An interesting account of Adobe's history and business practices.