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tl;dr: Education rant. If you don't like rants don't read this comment. 7 hour a day have no motivation other than preparing kids for 9 to 5 jobs and depriving kids of their valuab…

> that smallness-of-file or smallness-of-function is not a target to shoot for I disagree. Unless you are methodical and know what you are doing (like NASA or the authors of Kubern…

If theory of mind is the issue, some pigs display some attributes that could be interpeted as theory of mind. In any case, your argument fell apart because there is no metric you c…

Other cities offer one way tickets to CA cities to get rid of their homeless.

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The crimes of these kinds tutorials: - Downplaying the role of error handling - Treating the subjects they cover as a black box - Not warning that the code examples are not suitabl…

Seems nice except for the developer art. Kids are exposed to very high quality material these days.

Have people use an app instead, problem solved. The same people touched the entrance door handle anyways. And if you use cash you are exposed to the same germs.

A server can do way more.

If you define and implement all user stories, in the end what you will have is: a functional prototype, not a product. A finished product can be sold ethically, a prototype cannot.…

If you resurrect those technologies they would die again right after. Nobody cared about Windows phone and nobody noticed when it died. It enjoys the same prestige as Microsoft Bob…

You can reapply.

Too late for China.

If your sleep gets interrupted 5 times the same night because of tech debt you are not allowed to fix, or if you are having dinner with your family and you get paged 3 days in a ro…

The engine used in Chrome is a fork of the one used in Safari, which is a fork of Konqueror's engine (KHTML).

Safari and Chrome are closely related.

It was a bad decision to make the logo similar to Internet Explorer, that alone is enough reason to not use it. They can change the tech as much as they want. They can hire armies …

What you want is to have fewer outages. Penalization is a non-goal.

It is refreshing to see an article celebrating collaboration.

That's what PMs are supposed to be for.

> no one has any problem being on call. How do you know this?

An outage could be caused by infrastructure, by library code, by configuration, by increased activity, not necessarily your own software.

Waking up a developer should be done as escalation. If resolving an alert requires to "turn it off and on again" you don't need a developer for that. Stress and lack of sleep reduc…