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Thanks. I scanned right past the most important part for the article to get get right, mainly because it was buried in a paragraph, and wrapped in parenthesis no less: > ... But un…

> Riff is a tool that we built to help developers write software without having to wrangle dependencies or complicated configuration. It’s built to enable you to clone a project an…

> Allen described his work as a consultant when he goes into a new organisation: > - First he observes > - Then he would try to identify the biggest problem > - Then he would try c…

> Unlike Rust, however, Alumina is not memory-safe and it requires manual memory management. From what I gather, it might be more accurate to say that Alumina has no ownership mode…

The biggest problem the anti-Agile crowd has is that: 1. They have no replacement methodology. 2. Even if they did, it has no name. I get that lots of people dislike Agile and what…

> Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble …

> When New York Pride festivities kicked off on 24 June, I was aware that monkeypox was an emerging issue – especially for gay men – but I was also under the impression that the nu…

Google is still an advertising tech company. As such it's highly levered to two things: 1. The fluctuations in stock prices. Like many tech companies, Google uses its shares in pla…

It's not just the Saudis doing crazy stuff like this. From the Wikipedia article On Neom, I found this: > Belmont is a proposed planned city in the Phoenix metropolitan area of Ari…

There's a simple way around that. Nothing to install. Nothing to update. Just go to SO and use its search bar. It's actually quite good. I mean, you know that's where you'll want t…

Old Man and the Sea . Was forced to read it in high school and promptly forgot it. Read it again and it's amazing. A short but big story about wants vs. needs with a surprising but…