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The iPhone X had Apple’s best camera. Every version since has over processed its photos. Like an E30 BMW, I wish Apple would have never stopped making that device.

You're work is incredible! Thank you for sharing!

I’m kinda getting tired of journalists and politicians who make obvious statements like “Reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern.” Duh! We already know that.

True statement. I lost a finger tip in a mandolin making potatoes lyonnaise. It mostly grew back. However, it has never felt the same. It's like the nerve endings in the finger tip…

What could possibly go wrong with that approach? :-)

Also more approachable than the little schemer :-)

Outstanding! Purchased the eBook. Will read to my son who wants to be a coder when he grows up.

I’ll sacrifice myself at the alter of Steve Jobs. I have a 2018 MacBook Pro with a 6-core CPU and 32GB of RAM and I absolutely love it (with exception to the Touch Bar which sucks …

I don’t remember how I found it, but after flipping through a few pages of Programming Erlang, Software for a Concurrent World, I was hooked. Through this book, and others I learne…

I have always felt that not paying prison guards enough would encourage corruption. If you’re a prison guard and are barely scraping buy, would you be tempted to smuggle in drugs f…

This fiasco is mostly on the government. The unlimited supply of student loan $ has enabled universities to not have to control costs like they would have had to if these $ were no…

There's a section in this book that discusses the inability of a narcissist to fix a motorcycle. As a software engineer with narcissistic tendencies, that section really struck a n…

No. An SDE II is an L5 position.

Does anybody think having a gigantic e-ink desktop monitor would be rad for coding? The refresh rate might be a killer, but I wonder how your eyes would feel after 8 hours compared…

Vancouver's climate/geography is a feature, not a bug. Mountain biking, climbing, and skiing in Vancouver is amazing. And you don't have to drive two or three hours to get there. I…

I'm not sure the author wants to be anonymous. The amount of data she shared about herself in the third paragraph is probably enough to social engineer your way to her true identit…

I'm not sure the author wants to be anonymous. The amount of data she shared about herself in the third paragraph is probably enough to social engineer your way to her true identit…

What happens when the first person gets killed while riding in an autonomous vehicle? Do companies who make them get sued into oblivion? Will customers stop riding in them regardle…

Yelp suffers from the 4 stars problem. In my neighborhood Taco Time, the French Bakery, and a handful of upscale restaurants each average 4 stars on Yelp. So what does a 4 star rat…

Functional programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong. Even if you have no desire to learn Scal…

Can we stop naming software "Hydra"? At my company alone there are several tools and libraries that go by the name of Hydra. Each time someone refers to Hydra, you have to clarify …

Boeing should have flown this route this over Denver, Colorado.

Who needs a home lab when you have AWS and other on demand cloud computing providers at your disposal?

Go nails code readability and documentation better than any other language I'm aware of. For example, look at the package documentation for Go's list data structure at http://golan…