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I expected this essay to end with a note about software's golden age.

Thanks for sharing. I'v'e read the book, and for me it made everything click. I've had serious childhood trauma (violence, alcoholism, etc) and have been "clumsy" all my life. Basi…

NYT mentioned NWS staffing shortage, but did not say this was connected to body count: "The office is also one of several left without an overnight forecaster, but on Friday, it st…

Agreed, Adam really is one of the best at what he does. His talks, demos, were always so interesting. My guess is that he'll be at Microsoft shortly. What Google is saying with thi…

Has anyone built a search engine that indexes only "no annoyances" web sites?

My kid had sleep apnea. His problem was narrow nasal passages. He got EASE surgery from Dr. Kasey Lee when he was 14, and was completely cured. You get better results getting surge…

I am not sure if built-in indexing supports only indexing subset of the tree. YOu want to selectively index for speed and accuracy. The complete tree might contain multiple definit…

I was a C++ Chrome developer till 2020, and I primarily used Sublime Text because of speed, and I found VSCode weekly releases too distracting. I indexed code locally with CTags, a…

My 11 and 13yo happily ride on the back of my cargo bike (Extracycle). Some of their braver, bike riding friends, do ask "Why don't you ride by yourself?" I used to have a burley b…

The solution is obvious: the kid should have been armed. The neighbor would not have approached him, and he would have been able to defend himself from predators.

Seeing PEEK and POKE two pages into the article made me laugh. I always treated those like black magic, mysterious lines that I got out of a magazine that did cool stuff. I loved t…

> those places did not emerge with a significantly better COVID outcome. COVID statistics are hard to interpret clearly. But, looking at the list of deaths/100K, it is clear that s…

I hope Goggles can be used as a ranking signal to help default search engine deliver better results. Google has never had the appetite for letting users explicitly improve its resu…

Thank you! I've scanned over web development, looks like a well thought out modern curiculum. In 2022, it is tough to pick a good path for a beginner, and I like your choices.

I think that the decision on whether to use a framework is very hard. When using a framework, you get most of the benefits right away, and most of the costs happen much later, when…

I was wondering where did all these "I started with fresh account, randomly clicked, and found something awful" articles about TikTok came from. Now I know. It was so puzzling, bec…

It is impossible to rule out apnea without a sleep study. My kid had apnea, and I'd lay in bed with him for hours, and I never noticed anything beyond sleeping with his mouth open,…

Mine is empty as well. I think this article is misleading. The takout list does not come from gmail, but are "purchases made directly within Google Search, Maps, or Assistant". I d…

I was helping prep my high school kid for his evolution quiz. One of the concepts was "punctured equilibrium". To get his attention, and make it relevant I used: "global warming is…

I was just talking to someone today about what the programming might look like in 20 years. He was hoping for something more graphical. I told him that HyperCard was the only graph…

Anecdote: I live in Palo Alto, and my entire neighborhood is on Comcast. In January, service got to be really bad, 1Mbs upload during the day. Comcast came out, said our local node…

I agree that the article has not been written in good faith. It cherry-picks facts to portray media, government as incompetent institutions we cannot trust. Trump has demonstrably …

I've read this study a while ago, and I think it helped me correct my son's myopia. When my 5yo kid's eye check came back with "he'll need glasses next year", we started strict "ho…

I can relate to some of your quirks. I am now 50+, with 3 kids, and I've left most of the quirks behind. I used to always try to please others. My dysfunctional family liked it tha…

I used to be all-in on Amazon shopping, that's where I started all my shopping searches. Now Amazon is my site of last resort for everything but books. The rest of the net has gott…