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And now we wait for the first reports of production services that were shutdown due to spending limits :)

My humanity is a virtue. At least, that's what the Ghost in the Shell remake told me.

I see this a lot and never quite understand it. Code structuring to me seems more like a craft, something that is improved through experience and wisdom and not abstract rules.

Someone was hoping for magic Internet points.

> What's the real life scenario we're looking at here? Have you ever used CloudFormation?

Is the distribution of distributions itself normal?

Took a look into the source of the OS that I'm reading the Panic web page on. Absolutely disgusting that there's over 1.5M lines of code _in the kernel alone_. This is the kind of …

When everyone is wearing a suit, how does one differentiate?

Oops, I said "couple of weeks" when what I meant was "couple of days"! So current progress with just Justin Sandercoe's online courses (and not having had any full days to devote y…

Brain plasticity and learning "power" aside, I believe the biggest difference between learning something as a child and as an adult is simple how conscious we are that we're trying…

> You can't do creative work if your brain is filled with lot of context. Intuitively I'd assume that the context and information in working memory is precisely what enables one to…

If it's a spectrum then aren't we all "on it" at some point?

Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby I don't consider it a bible of CS, but it's one of the most playful, imaginative and, essentially, fun, introductory programming books that I've read. …

> Piano is easier In terms of barrier-to-entry, I'd agree. There's a greater requirement for dexterity in the left hand (assuming traditional layout) to get a good, consistent tone…

> Any job in engineering beats that In what sense? Usefulness to society? Comfort? Pay? I'd argue that the janitors and garbagemen are doing much more of a public good than the pro…

Surprisingly no, it's not an enterprise place. The actual company feels more on the other side of the spectrum, and has a fairly 'young' culture, along with an overwhelming amount …

I've considered this quite a bit. When I picture someone with a strong background in programming and CS going into another field I always imagine there's a lot of potential for rea…

I've considered both of those career switches (ranger and mail carrier) myself for those exact reasons. Deliveroo too, as the idea of being able to cycle around all day seems quite…

It makes me smile that while proponents of censorship and blocking of parts of the Internet use the "Think of the children!" argument, I never hear anyone shouting "Think of the ad…

I think about leaving programming every day. I love programming, but I'm not sure I enjoy software development as a career. I enjoy coding and understanding how computer systems wo…

That's a really good point actually. Perhaps Project Euler has a CS association where it doesn't really belong because it's often mentioned in CS/programming challenges threads, ev…

Project Euler has always seemed to be more about mathematical "tricks" than about imparting any kind of understanding of a computer science topic through a structured set of challe…

With Hummingbird's inclusion of a trailing line as part of the indicator of note duration you also have to read ahead in the score and then jump back if you want to use the trailin…

I suppose there's always the argument for survivability. The greater the number of humans and the more distributed we are, the greater chance we (that is, humanity in general) has …

Does denouncing someone as a bigot make you yourself a bigot or is it okay because _obviously_ their views are bad and it's okay to take a moral high ground?