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My son started making games in Scratch at around 8 or 9. He eventually graduated to Pico-8 and at 12 that is still his preferred tool for making games. A few threads here recommend…

Absolutely not. It’s pretty well established that the skills required for interviewing in the tech industry are not in line with the skills necessary to be an effective software en…

Dog bites man in Antarctica might also make headlines

> It may not hold in the rest of the South, but periwinkle in Virginia very often co-occurs with cemeteries. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/africanamerican-grave-...

And how is that?

Discarding unit tests is such terrible advice. The author clearly never discovered regression bugs at build time, or developed using a dynamically typed language. Also, I would hav…

> can he offer a reason for why Doordash can be losing so much money Just speculation, but Doordash is obviously loosing some money due to poorly implemented "tests" like these, an…

reminds me of how ninite came up with their name: https://ninite.tumblr.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-name...

Unravel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unravel_Two

You’re basically describing the old Java plugin paradigm.

Will this site be accessible after Chrome forces HTTPS everywhere?

Is this accurate though? Isn’t the number of seconds since 1970 absolute, and it’s up to the library generating the Gregorian date to take into account leap seconds? I suppose if t…

> Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? Worked in sales at a software / hardware company in the HVAC industry. Our software platform had a really easy way…

There’s a typo in the __ repr__ code section

GWMAIN.ASM ( https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/09ad7bc671c90f0ee... ) BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF

They become managers.

> Learn yourself some TDD. You won’t regret it. How?

> Come the 1980s, Americans were buying low-fat everything – the war against carbs had been won. This doesn't make sense as fat is typically low in carbs. I think they mean the war…

one grain for females, two grains for males

Storing it would help reduce the peak in the evenings.

What a beautiful, well designed and informative explanation of the complex earth / sun relationship. Well done! One thing I would love to see is the path of the sun across the sky …

And why pound is abbreviated “lb”

He said once in a "fireside chat" with his brother that if Amazon went all to shit and never took off, he would probably be a perfectly happy software engineer somewhere.

They just launched project zero, so at least they seem to be addressing the issue. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-project-zer...

How does Netflix have one engineering level?