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I would agree with you that there is some coverage of these issues...lately. Yesterday for instance CNN ran a story about the suicide trend in Japan. However there was very little …

> we are charging down that path optimizing for lives saved without giving fair consideration to other side effects This reminds me of the French economist Frederic Bastiat's essay…

One does not simply retrieve a record from the database. One must first declare a type to represent the database's view of the record and copy it into a repository layer. Next a ty…

We now use Teams video chat at work. The results have been mixed. When the number of meeting participants is low (<5) the video seems to work well. Anything above that we start see…

In the short term it might look bad. But in the long term it would encourage other companies to enter the market and existing players to increase their capacity.

We now use Teams at work for video conferencing all the time. Before the emergency we hardly ever did.

If you like books I recommend Humble and Farley's "Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation". It was written before cloud nati…

I once worked for a company that uses SAP for several important business processes. The software provides great support for well defined areas like payroll, benefits, accounting an…

Enlighten me. How is the analogy broken?

Nope. Automation is technology and so is transportation. Both can cause pollution but that's besides the point.

Analogy: "In the past, a well-meaning body of public servants decided there was a need to slow down microprocessors to protect jobs threatened by automation, reduce resource consum…

What was your process for leaving Google? I'm on Android, have a GMail account and so on. If you want to leave where do you start?

Here's a weight loss tip I've used with some degree of success: exercise portion control by using smaller dinner plates at home and chew the food on the plate longer (like 30s). Th…

> I had a list at one point, not much VPC and IAM Roles, but routing tables, CIDR blocks, NAT Gateways Just curious - how is the developer experience different on Azure? There are …

> not have to worry about automating deployment How do you validate your code before deploying to production? If you test in environments besides production how do you manage confi…

> Lot of people still "recharge" their prepaid phone bills with cash. Didn't India outlaw cash?

> atmosphere cannot be effectively privatized. It could be done. After all the ground below us is privatized (i.e. your property extends from the surface borders to a point at the …

If you mean form a government then I can't blame you. It seems so logical and yet the last 50 years have demonstrated the futility of this approach (as demonstrated by the article)…

> it's futile to see in terms of human concepts (like profit) the entity which literally created our species. Why is it futile to understand our planet in terms of human concepts? …

I disagree with your overall point of view. Profits (i.e. savings) is exactly what will save the environment by enabling the preservation of the rain forest and other desirable env…

> A global body needs to be created to handle environmental policy I think some people have too much faith in the ability of politicians and bureaucrats to protect the environment.…

Here's how I review resumes. I'll scan the document for evidence of some kind of selectivity in terms of education and/or past employers. I ignore action phrases, GitHub accounts e…

As someone who manages people I think the author's approach will lead to a culture of fear. Ultimately it will lead to poor results and retention. I prefer the guidance given by Ma…

Yes and when it's used in an argument it's a sign of weakness. It's similar to resorting to shouting in a verbal discussion.