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I'm surprised no one's mentioned the pick up community, AKA gaming (as in "The Game"). It's a good way for hetero guys to meet other hetero guys. A lot of people who stick with it …

Just talk about girls a lot. One of the guys I met in a bar at a language exchange (good places to meet other hetero guys btw) even joked about this when one of my other friends ca…

I can recommend the book Anatomy of Friendship [1] by Reisman. It's an old book but dispels the myth that things are more difficult now than in days gone by, since he quotes ancien…

I like to think that in some small way, I helped make this piece of art :-)

The food industry plays all sorts of games. Ever seen what's actually in "pork" sausages or "chicken" nuggets?

Wouldn't it then be a drone?

I stand corrected.

That can fly themselves and perform accurate 3D manoeuvres.

It's not a tech issue, it's a business issue. Why give people bigger raises than they may otherwise ask for? That's just wasting money. It's the same logic for why you only get a g…

No it doesn't. It means an exponent is present. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth

> of my own choosing Billions of marketing dollars are spent influencing people to make them "choose correctly".

While some people may seek aloneness, I can't imagine anyone seeking loneliness.

In a hunter-gatherer society you'd have far higher chances of survival in a team/tribe. I don't find it surprising at all that feeling lonely (a desire to be part of a tribe) would…

No one bothered replying to my issue and suggested fix. I'm not doing work without maintainers agreeing my approach. So no.

I'd want to because grpc doesn't support javascript on the web. REST is the defacto standard. I am aware Google use gRPC in their SDKs and backends, none of which are JS web. So ye…

I know. It doesn't work well enough. If Google focussed on this I think gRPC would gain massive ground. But issues are left open for months without any response, etc. We've had to …

Looks interesting, but TBH I'm still waiting for full swagger spec generation. It should be easy to go from grpc->swagger to generate REST client libs. Unfortunately in practice th…

Master=stable and in prod, non-master branches=dev & staging. Jenkins deploys automatically on git commits.

Do some useful work for someone and ask them to reward you with the book.

No but it was "paid for" by the student living with/spending significant time with the guru doing chores for them. I'd rather pay a few bucks per month to avoid that.

Maybe. The cost-benefit of kids never really seemed to make much sense to me. Perhaps I'll live to regret it or change my mind in future. Either way, I make my bed...

I guess so.

So you're saying those "outraged" parents don't like it either and don't like to see people freeloading and not taking their share of the pain? They're "outraged" because some peop…

I honestly never understood why you'd put yourself through all that for someone else's genes to propagate.

I agree. I wonder who's outraged by someone else saying something about their own life and feelings? I suspect it's other women.