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Am I too conservative if I still believe that self driving cars will not be a thing? Which insurance company will pay for a crash caused by a self driving car? And now they also wa…

Convinced me that PI is in fact wrong. I had thought myself sometimes why there was always 2PI everywhere and how PI was half a circle (instead of a whole). I was always eventually…

My experience so far when I wrote documentation for some pieces that I though needed it: - Nobody asked for it - Nobody reads it - Nobody reviews it - Nobody updates it - It takes …

Interesting article. A lot of negative things here said about such consultancy firms. Some positive things must also be said: - Outsourcing IT problems is hard. It requires knowled…

Elm fanboy here. Although always "hobby projects", I have worked in both ClojureScript and Elm. I finished a project in Elm that I would not dare to start in ClojureScript. I learn…

Or could it be that: It is actually possible to spot a lie, but it depends heavily on the skill of the liar vs interrogator: did they have experience with a previous lie that was s…

I think you are right on a moral level. But on a pragmatic level these genetic projects are perhaps promising also for conserving existing species. Conserving a species in the trad…

We are nature. We did this. We did global warming. Without global warming this probably would not have happenned. So we try to solve it ( or not)

Yes we need clean emission free energy more (at the moment), but not everyone has the skillet to investigate on clean emission free energy. We are with seven billion apes on this p…

Good idea actually! One day one of these efforts will succeed. As a front-end programmer for 7 years I feel I have a fine understanding about how a relational database and its quer…

So being a monopolist comes with quite the potential costs. Employees now have to memorize meaningless, if not just plain wrong, synonyms. Not to talk about the miscommunication th…

Best summary of the state of react I have read so far after programming with it for 2 years. You should write an article about it! Stuff like this is rarely part of the sales pitch…