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SWE with 15 years of experience Location: San Francisco Remote: Open to it Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full-stack web apps, React, Typescript, .NET/C#, ASP.NET, Electron,…

But POTUS 5 months ago: "If you look back years ago in the 1920s and the 1930s, they said global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something. Then they said global warming…

Very helpful, thanks!

For political reasons he needs it to be more than a very popular private service. He needs it to be an essential public utility.

You are more scandalized about the campaign of a private citizen emailing Twitter to ask that dick pics of his son remove, than about the White House emailing Twitter to have tweet…

I know the Trump White House made requests for stuff to be taken down via email, (instead of the Report Tweet button), but I didn't see that President Trump requesting a ToS review…

What did the Biden campaign do that the Trump White House did not? "In 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored." The differe…

What did we learn today about Democrats and Twitter?

So what you're saying is that when a reporter noticed that the monthly job openings number hit a 4 year low, the Reuters service should not have released a short article stating th…

Thanks for your work. OP maybe didn't read the first two paragraphs of YMNNJ, which clearly states: > jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it eas…

> Pages like "You might not need jQuery" try to sell the idea that it’s easy to ditch jQuery. ... good reasons to not use jQuery: if you’re writing code that you want to be re-used…

We also need to donate more to FOSS. And find more ways to monetize FOSS. It's tough for many FOSS projects to succeed on a volunteer basis.

Since its purpose is to launch rockets, I assume it lands where it takes off, and might never stray far away.

No one has accepted anything. "Man plans to sue his parents". Plans .

Maybe this answers your question: > But beside this historical excursion, what are the reasons that I use Free Pascal in my personal projects?

It's hard to take them seriously when they include statements like this on their FAQ: "Of course Ulrich Drepper thinks that dynamic linking is great, but clearly that’s because of …

tl;dr: * Netflix had a bug in their code. * But Express.js should throw an error when multiple route handlers are given identical paths. * Also, Express.js should use a different d…

I cancelled Netflix as a Charter customer because performance was terrible, while Amazon Prime works fine.

Basically the post just says: 1. Rails is slow 2. Dynamic languages are bad

A witty essay from 1908 observes that "success" is a ridiculously vague idea and that "success" books/articles of the day are vague useless drivel. Also, people should stop worship…

You make a fair point that Chesterton seems to have a certain disdain for making money and business, but it seems like you didn't read the essay very carefully: > If you acknowledg…

> We are nothing without good process, and self-help books or the actions they describe are hugely useful with that... His FIRST criticism is that the books and articles about succ…

> Chesterton ignores the mind, the problems of concentration, focus, mental health and so forth Just how friggin' much is he supposed to do in one short essay?

> Yes, he basically dismisses self-improvement and wisdom pertaining to the self as inherently mystical. There are so many things wrong with that statement that I don't know where …