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> But the flip side is you don't have to save $,000s for your kids college tuition, generally much lower property tax and cheaper healthcare. Irrelevant. Just because you work for …

> Amazon engineer salaries are in the 90th+ percentile in the tech industry FANG engineers are typically in the 99th percentile of tech excellence. Amazon engineers are not well pa…

To me, Medium is a platform for those who desperately want to monetize text even (and mainly) if they have nothing to write about.

> "functioning" is an exaggeration. Most of the German trains are slower than 300kph most of the time. This is a silly red herring. Top speed means nothing. The only key factor is …

> A clarification. They’ve not worked in rail. They’ve worked in hyperloop. A fantasy technology that does not, and probably never will, exist. Hyperloop is a marketing project whi…

> The article takes the premise that HSR should go 320 kph (200mph) and then explains why that is infeasible in many places. Top speed means close to nothing, and it's one of the r…

> Read the article—the author prefaces with their experience riding trains all over the world and has worked in rail. That's like claiming they rode taxis a lot and has owned a car…

> The author tries to make the argument that there's physical limits to high speed rail that mean it'll never catch on. But the limits are far more political than physical. The aut…

> I think this would throw cold water on some feminist claims of only women get prosecuted for fraud like Elizabeth Holmes and men aren't. I believe you're making stuff up. I went …

> That being said ‘the more words you know, the more things you can say’ as my old English teacher used to say. Sure, you can say more things. That's great, if your goal is to talk…

> You really believe that it’s because of a single rep? Then you also might also believe that most management disasters are “programming errors” like that sometimes say? It's uncan…

> You're going after the wrong people here. Journalists hungry for clickbait can't wait for incompetent customer reps to tweet some stupid shit. So the "journalist" can blow it out…

> I first thought to post some links to code bases that, in my eyes, aptly counter argue your claim. ...but then you realized they weren't supportive of your baseless assertion, an…

> > The point is not to never use frameworks, but to isolate them. To call them from a single place. One that we own. That we are responsible for and that we limit very much in wha…

> I think many, maybe most, companies that try to build loosely coupled and highly cohesive code bases end up failing and it ends up being a mess. Companies who try to build any ty…

> But, what the commented is saying is that it is not just that we do not know everything so our theories are incomplete, it is that the "scientifically derived knowledge" that we …

One thing that I miss in C++ is a bit more clarity on how copy elision and NRVO kick in. To me it feels a bit hand-wavy. This article makes a good point in showcasing clear example…

> I think once you see how the sausage is made you start to see science for what it is: just another complicated, fallible process built by many fallible people with a wide set of …

> Further, we found we had to spend $10Ks at a time to send NY/London staff over there monthly to figure out wtf was going on. These offshoring firms were running some serious scam…

> Indians were by far the hardest to work with. They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager. I recall that Amazon went through the trouble of pa…

> POSIX is the part of the C standard library in UNIX, that should have been part of ISO C as well. I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The Portable Operating System Interface …

> Fossil is a distributed version control and in fact it is "more" distributed than git if you consider that people tend to tie it with centralized services like GitHub to get more…

> In counterpoint, a recent 60 Minutes piece on Paul MacCartney showed him playing an impromptu concert in his local pub. While playing one of his old hits – I can't recall which o…

> I disagree with this perspective. You should have multiple accounts but only if your organisation requires it for isolation or data protection reasons and only enough to perform …