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Agreed. Another important lesson I learned when delivering code to a non-profit org, and them asking me to convert my final invoices into "donations" to the org.

Sadly every consultant can tell you at least one (hopefully only one) story about clients who refuse to pay. Either outright, or with some excuse about you "not delivering", or the…

OMG. We truly live in the stupid timeline. How do I get back to the prime timeline from here?

Your last sentence should be a t-shirt.

It is a very sad story. Our company committed to open sourcing all of our code (it's in the web3/blockchain space), and we had, and continue to have, spirited discussions about whi…

I do not understand why people keep building in that space. Not only is it a niche market, but it can be completely decimated by Google/MS adding a feature to their interface. Add …

IMHO this ban will never pass. The only law all these people are always sure to vote for is the one increasing their salary and benefits. But beyond that, even if it passes, I expe…

We need a GDPR in the US. Yesterday. All the people who treat our private data as their own will stop and think twice if they face the chance of losing billions for breaking privac…

How to pass horrible bills: 1. Stuff them with truly horrible ideas. 2. Wait for public to scream. 3. Remove half of the horrible ideas (keeping the core crap, like no FOIAs, priva…

Self custody is hard. And even professionals can make mistakes. Most people don't think about it: they have a bank holding their "balance", a broker "holding" their stocks, an empl…

Makes even more sense if you treat it as a foreign hostile takeover. A quick look at some of the funding sources for the $44b, and the distinct direction Twitter took post-acquisit…

Some more background: the companies were engaged in fighting over regulations, and on a personal basis between the 2 CEOs. It went down to really childish levels at some point. But…

re: the performance review: don't know about your work place, but the first quarterly review I got at [insert name of large known company], my manger sat me down and explained she …

Sad story, though not uncommon. I heard many eBay horror stories involving buyers' scams. Frankly, selling anything on Amazon is crazy. But if you do have to, vet your buyer. Look …

> The nightmare scenario for a financial institution is someone getting a mortgage, paying it off early, and not getting another mortgage. I think the nightmare scenario for financ…

1984 changed the way I perceive language and culture permanently. The notion that if certain words no longer exist in the language, then the associated idea will disappear from the…

I really liked the story, and it's well worth telling it, and highlighting the heroes (and anyone who was there is a hero in my book). But the writing style was kinda hard to follo…

But there's no easy way to inject this AbortControl into existing libraries, or use it easily with async/await. I'm looking for an easier standard.

Not sure if it had been mentioned already, but I think we could benefit from cancellable Promises. Many of the modules and libraries currently support Promises, and `async/await`, …

If that's the approach they're taking, why not just cancel the day Friday all together? Seriously, instead of finding and fighting the root causes of the problems, they treat the s…

Next stop: electricity company liable for people using their product to power computers that violate copyrights. Side question: is anyone tallying the damage caused by the music/fi…