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They should have made the bit about Boeing instead.

No one says you have to subscribe to ALL of the streaming platforms at once. If cost is an issue, pick 1 or 2 services, watch the shows you’re interested in, then cancel those and …

Lord no I am not putting my financial information on that cesspool of a platform.

Teams is the result of Microsoft taking a look at Slack and saying, how can we make this feel more like Excel?

Ok, if you get into Harvard, go to Harvard. Your opportunities in the long run should outweigh any sort of student loans you have to pay back. If you're going to NoName Private Col…

JavaScript is a dynamically-typed language. Parallelizing the type checking with bundling gives you the best of both worlds: the speed when writing in a dynamic language and the ty…

That “sink or float” metaphor was clumsily written and reminded me of someone wanting to convey something important, but didn’t know how or what to say. I’ve only watched one episo…

“This Naked Mind” by Annie Grace takes a similar approach with alcohol.

Yes, LaMDA is not sentient. But this begs the question: as these models become more sophisticated, and we did end up creating a sentient AI, how would we know?

As someone who lives in the US Northeast with its biting winters, San Diego and Los Angeles's yearlong climate seems like a dream.

Actions speak louder than words. If she were truly sorry, she would’ve reverted the PR and have it go through the normal process. Instead she wrote a really long message about how …

As someone who has a liberal arts background, software engineering has a lot more in common with writing than most admit. Sure there is grammar and syntax but good writing can be a…

I live in the NYC area and I can tell you no one cares about jaywalking.

I was an early employee (#20-something) of a startup that was acquired. The founder received 1 billion, the 2 other founders received 100 million each. I got about 80 grand that to…

Now how would you do this with a wife that works and two young children in tow?

No.

Because it’s assumed those private methods’ usage happens within public methods, which should be tested. By testing the public methods and all of its use cases you are also testing…

The introductory section talks about a 7 year old working on the quadratic formula. What?? At 7! “Calculus for 7 Year Olds (Who Are Geniuses)” should be the title.

I agree with so much of this! I think it stems from so many software engineers have a quantitative background, where solving for x is either right or wrong. Much of “good” software…

The author uses a small subset (positive psychology and its nebulous definition of happiness, although the he doesn’t address that those psychologists do define that term) of psych…

Is it an alien cat?

John Adams’ greatest contribution to the presidency was that after losing the election to Thomas Jefferson in 1800, he stepped down and power changed without bloodshed. I’m not so …

It's easy to say that when you're afforded the comforts of a Western democracy.

While this does seem like a heartfelt apology from the CEO, this incident is a reminder of how much of our privacy we willingly hand over to companies and how much power they wield…