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Many years ago as a young developer I read Fielding's dissertation, Fowler's writings on the Richardson Maturity Model and even a book (don't remember the title) on the topic. Then…

The author's case is not helped by fighting a strawman argument and backing it up with atypical examples of AI usage. Those who favor human writing are looking for writing where th…

Your example is an interesting one, as the Reagan administration is a broad topic with many books covering just a small slice. If you are solely interested in the foreign policy of…

Energy is more difficult to gauge, but the average American has over 5 hours of leisure time daily. When there was more of a time crunch in the past, Americans read more.

In 2021, Russia was the source of 52% of Germany's gas. Following the expansion of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 imports from Russia quickly dropped. The biggest suppliers of gas to…

This comes off as a quite dismissive and incurious take. Are you quite sure that of the ~500 million consumers who bought a pair, nobody considered utility and it was simply a fash…

The linked post on Take Take Take is interesting. Magnus Carlsen created a chess.com competitor and eventually sold it to chess.com and became a sponsor. While working as a sponsor…

Unfortunately, this does not save you. The NYT has a paywall and still has this terrible experience, which caused me to unsubscribe. I remain subscribed to The Atlantic because whi…

It makes sense if you're looking at it from the perspective of a European investor. e.g. You start with 1000 EUR, convert and buy into an S&P500 fund, wait a year, sell and convert…

You can't effectively paywall it because not only is it open source, but there are many nearly equivalent competitors all of which are free. Any subscribers would essentially be do…

A big factor in the quick return (and maybe one reason for its popularity) is that Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world. The ROI doesn't look as attracti…

The author was for a long time a developer on Chrome and now works at Microsoft on Edge. I would not expect them to lead an anti-Chrome crusade.

> Perhaps Google and Mozilla, leaders in JavaScript standards and implementations, will start developing a real standard library for JavaScript, which makes micro-dependencies like…

In many cases it is required to access the content. Courts have allowed "Consent or pay" for sites such as newspapers.

For a magazine like the New Yorker, there was money. You might be interested in Bryan Burrough's experience writing for Vanity Fair in the 90s and 2000s. > For twenty-five years, I…

Those are perfectly good reasons and in the hypothetical world of housing affordability such utility should compensate for the depreciation. Similarly many people find value in own…

There's a common view that home-ownership is important because a home is the most expensive asset most people will ever own and its increasing value is key to their comfortable ret…

I've generally not had an interest in working for one of the big tech companies, but the opportunity to escape JIRA is tempting.

It basically comes down to the face that the quarterback position has an outsized importance in the game and those players become the face of their franchises. They are often credi…

Soon, hopefully, QUERY will save us all. In the meantime, simply using POST is fine. I've also seen solutions where you POST the filter config, then reference the returned filter I…

I sympathize with the pedantry here and found Fielding's paper to be interesting, but this is a lost battle. When I see "REST API" I can safely assume the following: - The API retu…

I don't think Mozilla has always made the right decisions, but they are in a difficult position, and the anti-Mozilla arguments are typically much more vague and directionless. Som…

Vercel's perspective: https://vercel.com/blog/nuxtlabs-joins-vercel

Some examples that come to mind: cell modems, video game engines, retail space leasing, fast food franchises.

A different type of radio program (and he also did television), but Vin Scully announced Dodger games for 67 years.