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Considering everything: usability, ease of maintenance, quality of code, beauty, design, simplicity... Better to exclude software that doesn't have practical uses (like games and d…

I'm not a vegan, actually very much the opposite, but https://grimgrains.com looks like a nice website. It's open source too https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Grimgrains

If it isn't my favorite website collector, Mr. Condor

It's as if using the technology the way it's designed to be used is a reasonable idea. Who could've thought?

In case scraping doesn't work for a certain link, you could have a "limited" update feature: Download website html, compress and hash it and store locally; each update cycle, downl…

Yep. And the sad part is that some of the students I met here don't realize what they're learning is not CS. I only applied to avoid the compulsory military service, I was already …

There are two sides to this kind of teaching. If you're MIT, you can afford to hire great lecturers who know to teach the students fundamental and deep truths about the tools they'…

I got goosebumps reading the second one, because it's so close to what could actually happen. I live in a small eastern European country in a frozen conflict with Russia. Both cell…

The Art of Manliness podcast had a great episode about this: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/podcast-547-achievin... Made me think harder about the specific things I enjoy …

Good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the eye can see.

Serious question. What's wrong with simply having a static directory from which you send html files to the client? I do that all the time with my servers and the load times and the…

They would have to use a camera, which you would have to allow.

Yes, but that person can't copy your biometric data stored in their brain, convert it to a standardized format, and distribute it to millions of other devices.

If you've ever worked at FB, you can get a job at basically any other tech company very easily. So, no. There is shame in that for FB employees.

Thanks!

What does OT stand for?

There's just no way I could keep myself up to date with local events without Facebook. I live in a post-soviet country so Snapchat and Instagram are considered pretty niche here so…