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When exists? was removed, it was roughly an order of magnitude more popular in Ruby code on Github than exist?. I don't think you can argue from the position of improved readabilit…

I agree. It would be simpler to shuffle the list of people, then split the list in half. Here's a proof this algorithm doesn't work by counter-example (N=6) Consider a list of 6 el…

What games do you play these days? I have the opposite experience - I feel buried in 60+ hour games I want to play and feel like games could be shorter.

Graviton is GA for EKS as well. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/eks-on-graviton-gene...

This is not true for inter-az bandwidth. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...

The ability to depend on library versions that do not exist is a misfeature. It should not be possible for someone to build a new version of their software and cause your software …

They haven't said it, but probably because it's not a criterion cities can do anything about. Having HQ2 far away from Seattle reduces business risk from e.g. major earthquakes.

AWS provides the ability to guarantee you don't share physical hardware with other customers with "EC2 Dedicated Instances" ( https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/dedicate…

Generously assuming a cashier can check one item a second for an hour, he can check only 3600 items. "Tens of thousands" seems off by at least an order of magnitude.

"all the way the NYC Supreme Court" In New York, the "Supreme Court" is the trial-level court. Above that is the "Supreme Court, Appellate Division" and above that is the "Court of…

"there was no way to cancel at the 1 year mark" From personal experience, if you cancel "now", it simply doesn't renew at the one year mark. You still get the prime benefits you al…

Yes. I did this yesterday. It takes a little longer at the TSA checkpoint, that's about it (sample size=1).

Enormity means great evil.

That's why she wasn't spied on. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/11/us-germany-usa-spy...