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I think it's very fair and valid for you to feel however you want with regards to shelter-in-place/wfh/lockdown, but to me it seems somewhat unconscionable to be smug like enjoying…

A federal reserve police force would open some interesting additional avenues for affecting interest rates outside of open market operations... (this is a joke)

Maybe I'll change my tune when I hit 30, but we had Aerons at my $lastjob and while I liked it well enough, I now work from home in what is essentially a Lazy Boy welded onto rolli…

I'm not, your ellipses abbreviate too much. I'm seeing, among a group of people who would theoretically be predisposed to not want to stay at home, people still electing to stay at…

I know this is bait, but I want to provide my experience as counter-example. I went to a STEM college where anyone who graduates could quite reasonably expect to be able to build t…

The thing is, if you didn't integrate Stripe, you'd either be: 1. integrating someone else who does roughly the same thing as Stripe 2. integrating with and maintaining 100's of in…

It punishes smaller transactions unfairly, which doesn't make a lot of sense since the size of the dollar amount probably doesn't have anything to do with the incremental cost to s…

It's worth noting that there's the interchange fees that come along with using a credit card in the US aren't just a pure profit rake for the credit card companies. It obviously pa…

Ah, so nothing technical.

[I don't do Android, but, ] isn't Google trying to kinda pivot to Kotlin?

I did a 6 to 8 migration at $lastjob. The upgrade was smooth except for 2 issues: * It exposed a kernel panic bug in our Linux kernel when Hadoop applications de-allocated huge amo…

Where does the article mention a website-blocking system? I'm curious as to the technical details. I'm sure it'll work this time. "For Canada to have an innovative and flourishing …

Confession: For a long time I didn't really think movements like these were necessary. "Why does it have to be for group X? Why not just have it open to everyone?" I still see a lo…

Legacy uses and a smattering of personal preference. Perl was hugely productive in its day, when alternatives were either non-existent or extremely nascent (Python and Ruby) or thi…

I think the difference is that he's directing his question to us, and not to the person in question? I think it's fair, in this day and age, to ask if there's corroborating evidenc…

That's probably fair. I was in high school during that period. I've mostly only ever known the Java owned by Oracle, where it seemed... reasonably kept? Java 8 happened under Oracl…

I worked with Java from 2009 until now. I can't account for the 01-09 timespan, but I'd say the big gap between say java 1.5 and 1.8 was less about stagnation and more about lettin…

I've had good results with the react-rails gem, basically letting me plop bits of react into a rails view. It's not like, the best the in the world from a pure design standpoint? B…

I'd argue that options trading is worse than gambling. At least the one-armed bandit only gives the house a slight statistical edge. Option traders - real ones, mind you - are soph…

I don't get why this is specifically directed at gratis/free software, though. It's not like commercial software is much better. I spent a lot of time in the beginning of my career…

I think I've seen people I'd describe similar to the way you describe yourself. Disclaimer: I think you sound to be quite a bit better than the 2 people I'm about to describe. Just…

If they're thinking pure CPU benchmarking, prime95/mprime has several options, such as: [this is from my recollection] * completely in-register only, no caches. they warn an organi…

I became a software engineer because CS was the only class in school that has ever, ever genuinely interested me at a deep, fundamental curiosity level. It's definitely something a…

Unfortunately for us, nature and evolution "solving problems" frequently involves us all just dying and/or Earth spending a long period of time as a magma ocean and then several ae…

Ah I missed that he was selling calls for stocks he owns. That makes it even less interesting IMO? The premiums on these options are small enough and now you're also capping upside…