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>I'm terribly afraid everybody will learn the wrong way of saying it, and the correct way will go extinct. Is that really so bad?

> 2- After that they’ll ask you a few questions on why you need it, just tell them its because you’re a growing startup who expects to send thousands of emails per month, (make sur…

>There's a really interesting suggestion in The Mythical Man Month. He suggests that instead of hiring more programmers to work in parallel, maybe we should scale teams by keeping …

What about it?

Why should the transmission of money require a license?

Why should the state get any of it, regardless of what I spend it on?

>Good UI developers are incredibly hard to find. Is that why the ones they do have keep messing up the UI?

In my experience, the automated refactorings in IntelliJ work better for Java than for Kotlin.

That's not what I meant. I meant the best people _for the job_. I agree that candidates shouldn't be excluded because of disabilities that are irrelevant to the job of being an ast…

Yep, still works great.

Given how few people we can afford to send into space, is it too much to ask that we send the best people we have? Leave the identity politics back on Earth.

Pair and mob programming

Unnecessary verbosity is not your friend at read time. Unnecessary verbosity is also not your friend at write time. Unnecessary verbosity obscures what the code is trying to say be…

You're absolutely right. I'm almost glad that BSV split off so BCH didn't have to be associated with him anymore.

Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin, mining works the same way it does on BTC. I don't know what's going on with Tether, but it definitely looks iffy to me.

Who doesn't love worrying about "watchtowers" and "inbound liquidity"?

What PayPal is offering is not even close to what BitPay is doing. On PayPal you will only be able to use cryptocurrency that you bought from PayPal, you cannot transfer cryptocurr…

Hi there. I regularly pay for things with Bitcoin Cash.

You should try Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the version of Bitcoin that actually works as it was meant to. It has subcent fees by design.

No, they didn't. They launched a service where you can buy certain cryptocurrencies from PayPal and then sell it back to them at a later time, which may happen to be at the same ti…