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We're incapable of putting an accurate, standardized value on developer productivity, yet there often seems to be consensus between senior engineers on who are the high performers …

I wonder if the lack of capital letters is a clever trick to make this whole annoucement look more humane and natural. Surely it's intentional: only "U.S" deserves capitals, not ev…

Has anybody ever been forced anyone else to take any drug? The problem is not about being forced, it is about making an informed decision. When you don't have enough safety data yo…

This is precisely why we have clinical studies. We want to measure the efficiency and the innocuousness of drugs. You seem to imply we should just go ahead and try those directly o…

Debugging electronics to fix stuff. Some people seem to be able to repair whatever broken electronic devices we give them, which I find fascinating.

> The author is clear that they're talking about "billion dollar tech companies" for an audience of those people called to them. > We’re in an industry where burnout isn’t just com…

> If you eliminate fingerprinting, that is in and of itself a fingerprint. This is why you should "eliminate fingerprinting" by randomizing your fingerprint.

This is how I work as well, and the reason I tend to write many small functions rather than few large ones is precisely because it reduces cognitive load. You don't have to underst…

> I know these ridiculous statements are from people hardly wrote any code in their lives Some people who actually wrote a decent amount of code in their lives are sharing that opi…

Brave does this for about two years now: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices...

> Based on that you mention being able to see they're associated with someone else's account, you mean that you got a unit that was not factory reset before being given to you righ…

Exactly. The "it works for me so it works" type of thinking is what makes people mistakenly conclude that homoeopathy works any better than a placebo.

I can't understand how Apple can possibly get away with this. Is there any chance for them to win if the case were brought to court? One year ago, I had to contact Apple support be…

> “You have to listen to your gut. If something feels off, you’ve gotta listen to what your body is telling you and get out. If you don’t, you’ll end up regretting it.” > Next time…

> How true is this when they devices are increasingly hostile to user repair and upgrades? Not sure what you mean exactly by this, but to me their Self Service Repair program is a …

> At a surface level he’s acting a real asshole in a bunch of ways, but he’s surprised us with some seriously useful stuff on a number of occasions These aren't mutually exclusive.…

Have you tried using Copilot's @workspace command in the chat?

I am not a native speaker, but I noticed that in Australia people sometimes replied to the question "Do you mind...?" with "Yes", actually meaning "No" (they don't mind). It happen…

"The last responsible moment (LRM) is the strategy of delaying a decision until the moment when the cost of not making the decision is greater than the cost of making it." Quoted f…

I thought that a pure function could not have side effects by definition. Would you mind sharing your definition of a pure function?

Yes I did. You seem to assume everyone is using a "framework like React". I am not.

> Referential transparency is related to the concept of "function purity" (in the sense that either one usually guarantees the other), which you will often hear people talk about a…

Actually, the docs says it's perfectly fine to use @apply for highly reusable components like buttons and form controls: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles#avoiding-premat…