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> Google monetizes search with ads. Google monetizes search but not with Google ads. This is the primary distinguisher. Its an auction selling space on page for a supplier to provi…

> Search is Google’s most lucrative unit. In 2020, the company generated $104 billion in “search and other” revenues, making up 71% of Google’s ad revenue and 57% of Alphabet’s tot…

Google does make money from ads, but that is not their primary business. Yes they have AdWords and they bought DoubleClick around 2007. They also have YouTube that took them foreve…

> No one is working towards degrading performance on purpose You are not participating in the same interviews that I am then. Most developers know querySelectors, for example, are …

No, its a common misunderstanding of search and tree models. The OS is faster, by a tiny bit, at traversing the file system than my JavaScript application. It is only search that i…

I have been doing web work for over 20 years. Everybody claims to care about performance, training, security, and so forth. The only thing that really matters in practice is comfor…

> Children in every demographic group have been affected, but Black and Hispanic children, as well as those from low-income families, those with disabilities and those who are not …

A micro service to a localhost node application. There is a file system API in the browser now but it isn’t mature and is highly restricted compared to the terminal.

Why would you suspect that? Are you a JavaScript developer? If so have you seen the terrifying horror on people’s faces when you mention alternatives to querySelectors or that you …

> I also constantly remind myself that "perfect is the enemy of shipped". That is easy to say as marketing first personality with access to money. In this case shipping anything is…

It’s more subtle and monumental than that. Before this JS was already executing at the same speed as Java except for in arithmetic. At this rate of improvement eventually JS will e…

https://jsbench.github.io/#b39045cacae8d8c4a3ec044e538533dc Look at DOM performance. Chrome has a ceiling of about 45m ops/s where FF max speed is dependent upon your ram and bus s…

I suspect cheating is not the primary problem. I suspect, like so many other decisions in software, the primary problem is unrealistic and unfounded expectations. This behavior typ…

Total control by whom? Most financial transactions occur between numerous financial institutions and wiring intermediaries in between. The finance network is far more decentralized…

There are legal reasons why that does not work. For example consider military separation. A candidate is under no obligation to disclose their military/veteran status. If that cand…

Certificates, certificate chains, certificate installation. In theory the concepts sound easy and there are numerous guides and instructions online. Once you try to become your own…

I am a JavaScript developer so my opinions are limited to that slice of software. Senior used to mean someone experienced enough to become an advanced problem solver. Those days ar…

You are not the first to comment on the video resolution. I really must redo those. Back in August the project was mostly working. Multi-file copy worked across the network and acr…

The framework argument is purely superficial and boils down to two camps: those who can write applications and those who need some (maybe a lot) help. There is a lot of freedom, pe…

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems That is my application that creates an OS GUI in the browser. Plenty of features with o framework. * Code size (on the front-end) 2…

I don’t work more going into an office. I just fill the gaps in more satisfactory ways while working from home instead of shorter office hours with long walks around the campus.

In all fairness linguistic nationalism killed many regional languages. The European regional languages that survived were only due to either geographic isolation or much higher tha…

Nicomachean Ethics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics Usually critical thinking means two things simultaneously: 1. Degree of willingness to defy group dynamics. G…

For historical context see: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nagorno-Karabakh * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2…

Because that requires creation of new original technology. Most developers struggle to deploy REST using a framework that does all the work for them.