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I have never been able to understand the Slack fetish most tech people have. IMO MS Teams is feature-wise better in most cases. Especially functionality for formatting posts is far…

Imagine the rapid advancements we could make in those fields if researchers stop wasting time on a baroque, outdated typesetting system.

Using a word processor (MS Word, Apple Pages, LibreOffice Writer) is nearly as bad as using LaTeX (in some cases, worse). Using a plain-text format like Markdown, ReStructuredText …

No, I like Markdown.

From https://www.latex-project.org/about/ : "LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to c…

I always recommend "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Hunt, Thomas) and "Code Complete" (McConnell).

Joel Spolsky's (harsh) comments on SOLID, from a 2009 episode of the Stack Overflow podcast ( https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/22/podcast-38/ https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/de…

https://docs.python.org/3/

Of the modern front-end frameworks: What is the best framework to add some front-end interactivity to a existing server-side-rendered application (Flask, Ruby on Rails etc.), witho…

I wish there was benchmarks for IDEs/editors, just like there are benchmarks for web frameworks ( https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.a…

I hope the author at some point adds the section on ConfigureAwait. I've seen code bases where the devs have added .ConfigureAwait(false) to all invokations "just to make sure".

Found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41550727/how-does-docker... And: https://dockercon.docker.com/watch/U7Bxp66uKmemZssjCTyXkm

I do not understand docker on windows. If I understand correctly, when I run a docker image on Linux then the dockerized processes's syscalls are all executed by the host kernel (s…

Are there any plans for implementing code completion/intellisense?

IMO, MS Teams works pretty well. Not as good as Slack, but not horrible.

So if I understand the article, one should use the communication pattern: When ____[observation], I feel ____[emotion] because I’m needing some ____[universal needs]. Would you be …

On a Windows PC, what (free, open source) drawing program would I use to create illustrations using these pieces?

Is the first "Using a Configuration File" example a bit misleading? The example is: ... Host remoteserver HostName remoteserver.thematrix.io User neo Port 2112 IdentityFile /home/t…

Totally agree. The author needs to read the Python docs.

Hi, just curious: could you say a bit more on the the backend and frontend tech in use?

How powerful is a Z-series mainframe?

Nice. Has anyone tried the tracks from Music To Code By ( http://mtcb.pwop.com/ ) ? I bought a few of them and IMO they are nice. The tracks are all 25 minutes in length.

Perhaps you should change careers? Get a job where you interact with people in a positive way - for instance become a teacher, work in a kindergarden or similar.

I cannot understand why anyone would not use SQLAlchemy if they're building a database-backed Python application.

No not sarcastic. Just wondering.