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This is ignoring the fact that there are people who actually enjoy exchanging pleasantries. Make a list with 2 columns: 1) people that enjoy small talk 2) people that dislike small…

Reading this felt like that Apple keynote in 2016 when they said no one uses the function keys. Hmm, me? all the time?

I prefer to use size 10 on my coding font. Just tried it in Visual Studio and it looks really bad with uneven lines, mostly on upper case letters.

The whole concept of OS integration across devices is a complete failure for Microsoft. Calling this new thing a "new OS" sounds like a failure to fulfill what the Windows brand us…

Thank you for that comment. Don't get me started on "compliance". Even if you are following 100% the diet and rules (which is impossible, we are humans), type 1 diabetes is HARD. W…

I'm running an open source closed-loop system on my iPhone. It controls my insulin pump based on data from a continuous glucose monitor. Those of us that do this don't do it blindl…

This is not one of the weird things about Javascript. When you use a function (like map), always check the documentation to know its behaviour and don't assume it's similar to some…

Another source of information about this subject (PDF): http://www.wam.hr/sadrzaj/us/Cavanagh_440Hz.pdf

The article makes it seem like the US is where people work the most. It is not. The selection of countries make their graph misleading. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_ti…

I am working on a compiler for my new language. I went from learning about Yacc at the university (reaction: disgust) to discovering PEG (reaction: I should build my own parser gen…

The last time GM invested in companies that competed with private ownership of cars, it didn't go too well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

In the current game dev industry, there is no longer anything "in-between". The days of the medium sized games are long gone. It is either big winner takes all or very small indie …

For the same price as an iMac, without a computer.

And that's why they added fullscreen mode to OS X. Both ways of working excel for different situations. It's great that they are now making the enhancements in sync on OS X and iOS…

In live in Quebec City. I used Kijiji to sell my car a few years ago and it still is the site I use to sell stuff. Reading this article made me go to Craigslist to see if it was an…

Regarding C++11 vs C++14 constexpr: "We need to finish heavier-than-air flight before starting interstellar colonization." Nice analogy.

Yup. Breakout 1976. Arkanoid 1986.

I'm pretty sure XSLT functional paradigm was intentional.

Exceptions are cute for small amounts of code. But as soon as you get a sizeable codebase, you start to understand the huge advantage they give: your code shrinks by an order of ma…

What's wrong with this use-case? The object will be destroyed and no pointer to it will exist after the clear.

Did you try Powershell?

Standard mathematical notation is not inevitable and is not unique. It is on par with most programming languages for being quite random. Both programmers and mathematicians use an …

I think the last time I configured an email program was 10 years ago. Clicking a mailto link bring a window to configure an email program (that comes with the OS) that I never laun…

The article is dated "04 MAY 12" and shows no mention that it has been updated.

What you call "microevolution" is simply adaptation. It has nothing to do with evolution (that you call "macroevolution"). Evolution is the logical outcome of random mutations over…