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That’s funny, I remember the only way to block ads on my Android phone back many years ago was to root it. I was thrilled how easy it was to block ads on the iPhone when I switched…

Is there a public API for this?

I don't think comment karma is publicly available through the site or API, but average comment karma could be calculated based on total karma of user minus sum of post karma divide…

> The virtualized nature of cloud hosting makes benchmarking over a period of time vital to getting the full picture. It's so nice to see a benchmark of VPSs that takes this into a…

Isn't everything client-side on the web inherently open-source?

An old statistics professor recommended I read The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. The book's voice has some ego and it's unnecessarily verbose at times, but it changed the way I think…

Their “April Fools” jokes made me realize the devs think my phone was just a toy and not a tool. Not that they owe me anything. Made me switch immediately to iOS.

Don’t hate the player or the game; hate the scrubs on the sideline.

I used to be irritated by middle-click paste as well. That stopped when I had someone explain it to me as follows: > It’s just another clipboard. One clipboard is interfaced via th…

I feel a pull, so my reaction is to retreat rather than jump. Paradoxically, the desire to jump results in placing myself at a safer distance.

PDE constrained optimization. I was optimizing for many hundreds of thousands of parameters. I only needed the diagonal of the Jacobian by the end of the calculation, however it wa…

3.5 years if you consider my MSc a personal project. There were three hallmark technical failures that are summarized as follows: (a) a computational failure -- at one point I need…

I'm at a transition point in my career and have been really thinking about doing this. Salary and career trajectory are my primary concerns. Do you feel comfortable with your pay a…