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Not exactly Clojure-related, but I wonder how acceptable is it for a programmer to suggest a technical decision by one’s own passion over company’s interest. > The business case fo…

I have to echo your point on inconsistency. Our company uses Haskell and the Haskell team love to define their own solutions which make things even more inconstant. For error handl…

I got into my school's network when I was 10, people were furious for my hacking, nobody questioned why was there a security issue so obvious that even a 10-years-old could break i…

I see a lot of people making the argument of “a bigger car is safer when crashing with other cars”, but that’s not very sustainable when everybody thinks the same. A US truck is sm…

As far as I know, there isn't a limit of power / speed for kei car category. In the old days Suzuki made a kei car that was "too powerful", the government "communicated" with them,…

I live in Tokyo and drive an old kei car. Despite being not very powerful, it does provide me whatever I need. Driving it on highway (about 100km/h) feels alright, of course it’s n…

I bought a pro mouse 2 years ago and used it until few months ago. The biggest reason for giving up this nice looking thing is that, people no longer create UI that are one-button-…

If this turns out to be an effective lesson on security, systems should implement their own meow to protect their users. E.g. A database That intentionally removes itself if the de…

While I agree that many things can be simplified into functions, I would like to point out functional languages don't necessary means you are going to have cleaner code automatical…

Few years ago I spent quite some time learning Haskell, failing to understand the concept of Monad. One day I just woke up, with the concept understood. It was like magic.

Wonderful idea! My friends drew some brilliant illustrations on my Macbook Pros ( https://i.imgur.com/O4mGZqZ.jpg ) using marker, directly on the case. Not soon afterward, the anti…

Me too! Especially when we know most services will eventually die, no matter it's Google+ or any trendy startup that will be acquired at some point.

Years ago a company similarly contacted me for some "emergency" tasks. I flied all the way to Japan and realise they haven't got the tasks ready, more than half of the time I wasn'…

Interesting. I thought the Ruby community generally prefers shorter code, e.g. `to_s` instead of `to_string`, and yet that type signature is very verbose: `sig {params(x: Integer).…

You are right, but I don't think companies care about accessibility. Facebook using the divs is already breaking screen reader.

I read it somewhere that Chinese websites are taking this kind of obfuscations to the next level. The simple ones are randomly ordered divs re-layouted by JS at runtime. The compli…

It's especially bad on mobile. On my iPhone SE, the top is a banner promoting their native app, then a top navigation bar and their logo. The bottom is an ad for the paid membershi…

The article and all the comments seem to assume work and creative projects are mutual exclusive, that we have to find a balance. I am wondering if it is possible to have a job that…

There is an opensource OS for Pebble as well! https://github.com/ginge/FreeRTOS-Pebble

I think culture helps to keep the house price low as well. 1. They don't like secondhand homes, they rather rebuild it[1]. So houses are not a good investment vehicles. 2. They val…

I see it the other way round. The people and community who chose electron at this point probably don't care about performance as much as we do. Improving performance would probably…

I think it absolutely makes sense in business, making low quality product is fine especially when users are nontechnical, they just don't know which app is slow. Though as a develo…