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> health issues such as balding Thanks, doc. Though I agree most men would prefer to avoid it, I never really regarded my balding as a health issue before now (and especially not t…

Accidentally creating sentient AI with today's technology would be like accidentally creating a nuclear explosion by rubbing two sticks together.

Boston cabs do this now (I assume it's happening all over) by playing a short ad reel that loops over and over. It's pretty horrible. If that's their end game here, I'd be disappoi…

This doesn't represent an immediate threat to Uber's drivers, and I doubt most Uber drivers see themselves as Uber drivers in 3-5 years.

Many people here are suggesting that Google views Uber as a threat or a competitor. My take is that (a) Google wants to follow through on its self-driving car experiment, (b) publi…

Facebook was viewed as a threat to Google for two primary reasons: - Facebook had access to tremendous amounts of personal information, and it was assumed they could leverage this …

That does sound fun. Let me know if you find it.

> I never, ever want to write any OS-specific code With Go, you never, ever have to write any OS-specific code. From a single source , you can build executables compiled for differ…

Maybe you don't like programming? Or you did once, but you've grown bored with it now that it's not as challenging? In my opinion, a programming language is good if it enables the …

In that case, must you create one or more separate bundles to contain your vendor libraries? I suppose there's no way to directly integrate a jQuery library hosted on a public CDN.…

I loved reading "Masters of Doom." It's an easy read, and a fascinating story about a handful of people of had a remarkable influence on an entire industry. Also, I learned by read…

Yes. The issue for me has been that I bundle my libraries with my app using, for instance, Browserify. So whenever I update the app (which is fairly often), the entire bundle needs…

> they can't think their way out of a paper bag Can you elaborate on this? Is this based on first-hand experience, media coverage, or some other source?

This is a bit off topic, but whenever I'm tempted to add React to a page or incorporate it into my single page app, I keep asking: is it worth roughly doubling the size of my javas…