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There was a Vox video called "Who made these circles in the Sahara?" that really showcased the investigative powers of journalists once they have the budget to bring in the big gun…

Add it onto the list of "falsehoods programmers believe in". https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

Counterpoint: part of how I learned from smarter people was to copy their habits, and part of their habits was to read good books with good practices. Learning how to read non-fict…

Reminds me of "ye", pronounced and meaning "the", in English, because medieval printers imported from Germany didn't have that letter "Þ' and 'Y' was the closest substitute.

Trust only answers from domain experts. I think it is unreasonable to expect that hackers are expert assyriologists, material scientists, or sociologists, despite what we may think…

It occurs to me that metaprogramming looks awfully familiar in JavaScript. function process_item(item, action) { item[action](); } (Also similarly forgetting the guard statement). …

The lathe is honestly one of the most underrated inventions of modern civilization. Though I can't recall of the top of my head, there are certainly more than a few inventions whic…

I like the meme of the personal webpage, which has sort of fallen by the wayside with the rise of social media. It's one of those ideas that spreads because you see other people do…

For the past few decades, Americans, and especially college-educated professionals, have been sold a distorted view of politics that essentially amounts to watching sports. Most of…

It's articles that these that remind me of how much we English-speakers are missing in the full breadth of human literature. For every Shakespeare, there is a Jára Cimrman, and for…

A company I used to work for used react to build the app, and Wix for the site.

In one sense, parts of the old internet hasn't died; dwarf fortress forums seem to be still going strong, as are other forums, if you know where to look, while new forums are sprin…

Speaking as someone else, I go on reddit because there are occasional domain experts. It's 99% repetitive drivel (I myself am guilty of the same) and 1% person who actually knows w…

I think at the end of the day, it's because the modern way of designing things is just easier for developers. I remember when that started taking off; it was honestly kind of a god…

Yes, but I miss ctrl-f in real life.

Let's address the root of your argument: At the end of the day, people have to eat. We're going to have to pay people somehow , either by buying a product, buying merchandise, payi…

Discoverability is an underrated feature in software. I like how in Microsoft Word (off the top of my head), all shortcuts are displayed when you go to the file menu. Redundancy is…

God bless the good reporters who put a one paragraph article into one paragraph, unlike some reporters who insist on stretching it out into an entire essay that says nothing. And t…

Personally on Firefox since I got into an open source. In my relatively short experience developing an open source browser extension, Firefox users are far more active than Chrome …

You're absolutely right. I think the problem is that connecting everyone to everyone is a mistake. As John Oliver (I think, I can't find the source of the original quote now), puts…

Chomsky notes that language was evolved not for communication, but for thinking . Murphy (of Murphy's law fame) notes that you're not really thinking if you don't write the thought…

I mean, there are badly designed brownfield projects with tight coupling, bad documentation, and, where you have to spend half an hour to figure out why a simple change broke every…

Something that's particularly interesting; on Pod Save America, they referenced a study (which I forget right now) that tracked protest effectiveness vs size, and right around the …

I remember when I was a kid, writing an essay on a laptop for the first time, and realizing that the reason the page was blank was because I had nothing to say. At the end of the d…

It's exactly what my father did. He took parenting classes at the library, because he wanted to learn more and didn't think that just because he considered himself successful in bu…