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Morons.

Contrast is your friend. Or at least mine.

Please: Not "a few notches". All the way. Black. That is if you actually care if people read your posts.

I personally think that "peak computing" was around 2005. Maybe 2006.

Like Boeing. And look how well that's worked out.

The Android Developer Blog called it "an ID check at the airport which confirms a traveler's identity but is separate from the security screening of their bags." From the mouths of…

I'd prefer a greater difference between ( ) and { }, and between : and ; But that's for using it as my daily driver, which doesn't seem to be the actual motivation.

I had to laugh out loud: "In practice, you'll encounter other constraints well before these theoretical limits, such as S3 provider limits, performance considerations with billions…

Speaking of a beautiful turn of phrase: "...more piles of electronic parts in my cupboard of broken dreams." :)

REJ-exs

MFA is often painful for me, and I've been a dev since we were called "programmers".

By all means, get up early if that fits your internal clock! But please, let's keep the clocks as close to the sun (ie, clock noon at solar noon) as practical.

That, and the effects of allowing "new feature demos" at WWDC. The various groups MUST come up with something that demos well. "See how easily I can...", and now the slightest brea…

tl;dr: AI and capitalism are both cancers, existing for no reason other than to further propagate themselves; hegemonistic. And Thiel is a cancer-causing agent. I agree re capitali…

I was a sophomore EE student when these came out. There were debates about whether to allow calculators in the classroom, somewhat irrelevant to me, since the price was out of reac…

Though it doesn't matter how fervently you believe. The universe doesn't care.

Crazy usage of "+". Using "+" as a synonym for "var" seems pretty pointless. Suffix "+" to mean stack allocated (vs not yet allocated?), unless it's an array, in which case "+" mea…

I'm pretty leery of making the "access key" and "secret key" so public (like typing them into a web page, or setting them in environment variables). Of course it adds significant f…

VW’s current lineup of cars is pretty unattractive to me. Time was they looked efficient and a bit sporty. Now they look like Buicks.