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> I’ve also learned to write code in a way that reduces cognitive load so that interruptions aren’t so disruptive to my productivity. I have too, but sometimes I have to read other…

I've found that learning to empathize with future-me, also made me better at writing code that others want to read. Kind of like dogfooding.

The overall portion of athletes are vegetarian or vegan is low, but the ones who are can still perform very well. This suggests that the difference is based, at least in part, on p…

There could be a lot of reasons for that. I doubt the reason is that meat is the healthiest option for them; meat contains a lot of saturated fat, which athletes try to avoid too m…

This. In conversations about vegetarianism, it's pretty common for people to give their distaste of fake meat as their primary reason for not reducing their meat consumption. I rea…

I've experienced this first-hand. Joining an existing project and being put on test-writing duty very quickly turned me into our team's chief advocate of writing testable code.

I don't think volume of articles is a very good measure. The distribution of people who publish things has changed over time.

I'm not a Twitter user myself, but the character limit is what made Twitter unique. It might be fun to laugh at people who only want to read 140 characters, but we shouldn't assume…

I've also done a lot of accessibility work. For people looking to get into it, another crucial thing is using "Semantic HTML". If every button is a tag and every link is an and eve…

It's also a great way to persuade managers. Actually, a lot of the time you can just tell them you're doing SEO because nowadays they're fundamentally the same. Almost everything y…

Bathrooms and kitchens

"Agile transformations" are bad, but I still think agile itself is fine. Teams of self-organized, competent developers tend naturally toward agile-like practices. I've seen agile's…

I feel like people who study subjective topics like the value of human life (philosophers) have already internalized "learned helplessness". It's empirical-oriented people like us …

You must be really fun at parties

I once read someone give similar advice about estimation. What stuck with me most is that if someone pressures you to change an estimate, it's no longer an estimate. Most managers …

My internal kid voice said "Yeah!". Until I read the other reply, it hadn't occurred to me that your rhetorical question's intended answer might be "No"

Another very important reason was left out: The 5th edition of the game was very well designed and received critical acclaim among veterans who were disappointed by the 4th edition…

It is if there's large barriers to entry

I haven't researched it, but the two statistics could be reconciled if there are fewer smokers than non-smokers.

Those givens are far from trivial, and getting them wrong is dangerous. You may as well say "Given we can perfectly predict the market, it's possible to make a lot of money"

This is neat. I'll make sure to use it whenever I post something here or on Reddit. Great work

Adblock Plus has an "Acceptable Ads" program that allows non-animated, non-sound ads to remain on the page. People who think supporting the sites they visit is the right thing to d…

Neat. Bookmarked

The post on programming hex grids is another really good one

My wife does this. One time a support scammer called trying to get her to install malware. It went something like this: "Ok. Please press the Windows key" "Ok (long pause)" "Did yo…