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I think you're underestimating the draw of para-social relationships. That's what powers the "social media" part of TikTok. I think it would be disingenous to suggest that TikTok i…

It's literally not the job of consumers to provide for your income. That may be a harsh lesson, but it's true.

> the truth is that with AMP the pages load faster, and are slimmer - with no exceptions I'm not sure this is as universally true as you think it is

What happened to all the AMP defenders that used to flood the comment section?

Reddit literally does not care about the usability of their mobile site: https://old.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/o7wo1s/this_subr...

It'd be great if there was a music service that somehow incorporated the metadata in something like the Allmusic database. Say for example, while listening to an album, you could c…

Procrastination is largely an emotional management issue. Strategies like this can still be helpful for many people, but this doesn't really address the core issue

Orwell's Lie: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992

I would somewhat disagree. While I don't think the factors you mention can be ignored, putting too much emphasis on them starts to feel like anxiety. It's a lot easier to cede pers…

That sounds pretty great actually. I just know what for me, none of this really "clicked" until I had someone to work through these emotions with

I really do hope your page helps some people with their procrastination issues. But I can't help feel like your whole approach suffers from engineers disease. But maybe that's what…

I'm still bitter about their Indiegogo campaign. I did get half a refund, so that's better than most failed crowdsourced projects.

Research seems to agree with you: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dont-delay/202003/ne...

This is very typical in an enterprise shop where you have end users connecting directly to the database for reporting purposes. Being able to take advantage of your existing direct…

Yet formal correctness is about "getting things 100% correct 100% of the time" to the greatest extent possible (you can mathematically prove the "correctness" of a program using fo…

I know Alaska used Lotus Domino (a web framework with Lotus Notes as the development stack) in the late '90s to put some of their services online (job postings/electronic applicati…

One of the hosts of that podcast is an evolution denier. Not someone I’d expect to get valuable insight from