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If you're in finance, you earn enough to live in NYC > imagine what happens to NYC when all the people doing the menial work keeping the city alive (have to) move away? Whoops, now…

Maybe now someone will finally fix the bug that causes claude code to randomly scroll up all the way to the top!

They also have a "keep going" keyword, literally just "continue" or "keep going", just for logging. I've been using "resume" this whole time

This is so cool! Now, I didn't notice anything about waterproofing on your website. Any plans to come out with a version I don't have to worry about getting wet?

Avoid casing entirely and use single letter function and variable names Case insensitive, of course

Same here. I found the biggest beneficiary of a design doc was my own thinking process (Xoogler here)

Google has the concept of a mini-design doc called a "One-pager" In 2018, the template for this "One-pager" was two pages long

With Microsoft they tell you years in advance when the product will reach EOL, so you have plenty of time to prepare On top of that, most of their products are software running on …

I think the claim is that some other company in the robot vacuum business can buy iRobot instead of Amazon and get that sweet sweet IP

+1. At 22, working as a full time software engineer at a tech company, I still didn't think I knew how to do anything useful

Even though I've drawn pictures, built toys and contraptions contraptions out of wood, made a rube golderg machine Still... The thing I'm the proudest about... Is that time I opene…

The challenge with books like The God Delusion is that it's barely one step above strawman arguments. It attacks claims made by some simple lay people, based on their half-baked un…

Kindly also report the usage of "Chai Tea" ('Chai' means 'Tea' in Pakistan/India, which is where that flavor originated from)

There's two aspects to value creation: 1. How much more value you can now create. E.g Moving from assembly to managed code was also a 1000x shift 2. How much of that value you actu…

> but there is no known island within that lake. brb, I'm gonna go toss a big rock

No need to make every person categorize/rank their own content. But let them choose which of the 3rd party ranking algorithms they'd like to have serving them their feed today.

Good point. It doesn't necessarily have to be a paid membership, but it would need some type of reputation formation. Ability to pay money is one way to grant you a "prob not a bot…

The tools for a community to self-moderate is the key here, along with communities being able to define their own boundaries. Reddit communities with active moderators are often gr…

Trust-less information was the norm for most of history. The past century has really been an anomaly when it came to trusting news, with photos and videos seeming to be reliable pr…

Found this while exploring pytest's cache. For something so simple, they put a lot of thought into the spec

The past century has really been an anomaly when it came to trusting news, with photos and videos seeming to be reliable proof. Before that, societies had to be structured very dif…

I'm surprised by the combination of "Writing a book + public speaking opportunities + (apparently public) twitter account" with not wanting to dox yourself in the blog post. Do you…