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Bit of a cliché, but nothing is free. You are choosing to use technology provided by a for-profit company. Community Edition does not mean it's owned by the community. It's absolut…

That's interesting. I suppose the written word is just a visual representation that needs to be parsed, natural that there could be thought processes that overlap and conflict with…

> I think, when my mind wanders off while still reading that means I got "bored" with the text by already knowing what's going to happen and I switch to associative thoughts instea…

I can relate with the reading issue. I've occasionally read 2 pages of a book while thinking of something else entirely, then realise I didn't absorb any of what I read. Not just t…

Ignorant and unnecessary.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Yeah, it doesn't work well for me either. However my 6-year old son uses the Google assistant on my phone a lot. "Lego Ninjago Kai video please", "Play". "Why do dogs have tails?" …

If they say "Yes, why?", they're your friend. If they say "Fine." then they don't trust you. If they tell you "No, ..." they think you're a close friend I'm guessing you're a progr…

> but if that is all you say, then it won't be clear how you do that, or how you're different from, say, a UI optimization tool which also improves end-user experience. In this exa…

> The only way to reduce (you will never eliminate) such problems is to deal with the violators with certain, swift and harsh punishments (death). You put a lot of blame on the Cat…

In the case of Russia, I was mostly thinking of it's treatment of disabled kids by the state. Up to 30% of russian disabled children are institutionalized - maybe orphanage is not …

Not exactly the same, but there are kids suffering the same and worse conditions right now in orphanages throughout eastern Europe - Belarus, Romania, Russia.

Good points there. The autopilot thing - I don't see it like that at all. You can be doing a repetitive task and thinking at the same time. It can help you focus and relax. Also wh…

Yeah, sorry the plant issue is a bit of a silly point. I just meant that you can tell by looking at the plant, feeling the soil that it needs watering or not. So many of the use ca…

I think these are great examples of technological aids that people really do not want in their lives. Our brains evolved long ago to a point where we can do many simple things conc…

Possibly, yes

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It's hardly a full feature checkout.. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it just seems like a user-friendly form with client side validation. You still need to integrate it with a paymen…

Was it debated whether this should be a tooling feature - thinking of an IDE plugin that parses and type-checks in the background rather than a dedicated service to watch text file…

I like the async/await additions. Seems very similar to the .NET implementation. Was this an inspiration?

I really enjoyed this article. I started out programming in C, then quickly on to Java. I didn't appreciate the language at the time, but with hindsight, the fact that you need to …

I hope the guy who wrote this is 15. http://hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/no-im-g...

sorry, but..who gives a shit?

not sure what the opposite of graceful degradation is, but that's pretty close! They're right not to support it though.