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Click the button in the bottom right and it moves at light speed. Which, it turns out is really, really slow. Big revelation to me!

I'm going to go the other way on this. I like this idea, but I can see it's not for everyone. I like to do some Javascript coding with my son on his Chromebook, and having a develo…

Whether you like it or hate it, you have to take your hat off to the Tesla marketing department. This thing is a meme on wheels. _Everyone_ is going to see this, have an opinion on…

Something I don't quite understand about quantum mechanics and the MWI... At the point the atom passes through the diffraction grating, it has a quantum superposition. According to…

This is an interesting idea. Isn't Python a tree language? Whitespace is significant... How about YAML?

I like this article, but I think actually the software industry has seen a succession of silver bullets. The problem is, once they appear, you take them for granted: https://riskfi…

I've started to think I'm better off building lots of small OSS libraries than one big one. The big one seems like some massive accumulator bet, which is really unlikely to pay off…

I really like this one: > Documentation is a love letter to your future self This seems like a brilliant way of transcending what feels like a drudge-job, making it into something …

I think a really useful interface / AI project would be to write something that categorizes all the comments being made to an article. That way I could dive into specific comments …

What do I need to google to understand this reference?

I'm starting to find the "new" page more relevant to me than the front page...

Yeah good luck with that. Problem is, time is just _one_ variable. It's possible to hit every estimate spot-on, if you allow the other variables to change wildly (number of bugs, c…

I've been developing for many years, and recently started a new job where the keyboard layout seems "off", prompting me to wonder - is it worth learning to touch-type? I'm pretty f…