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> In a 2016 study1 in Scientometrics, Byrne and Labbé reported 48 problematic papers, including the 30 papers that had incorrectly identified nucleotide fragments. These were all w…

> leverage smart development practices into making the job a lot less labor-intensive. I think we instead do the same amount of labor, but accomplish more.

Says quite a lot more about American police, I'd say.

Had the same experience working a consulting job one time. Awful, dirty rows of terrible monitors and keyboards, fluorescent lighting, chintzy chairs. Hotdesking sends to me the pr…

My CS degree program required an ethics course. It was an immense waste of time.

Users and revenue. User and revenue growth rate. One bad sign is if the CEO is replaced. Another bad sign is if the company can't figure out how to make money.

Segwit and Lightning Network; agility of Litecoin to evolve and advance. These are the reasons LTC is moving now.

Infragistics is a bespoke software dev shop that does mostly Microsofty line of business web stuff. SharePoint, ASP.Net, Silverlight, SSRS/SSIS, etc. I think they sell to big compa…

We reconstruct history from timestamps in Slack and our logging and monitoring systems.

Happy to participate. You're welcome, whoever benefits.

Happy to participate. You're welcome, whoever benefits.

Ah, good ol' TransactionTemplatePayloadFactoryExtension.

Yeah, the problem isn't that the airplane is on fire, the problem is that it crashed into another burning airplane as both tumbled uncontrolled through the sky, hurdling toward the…

Ruby has a language feature for this and it's pure 100% poison. http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_method_missing.html

Still can't calculate height or fire mouseLeave events correctly.

Reddit users are too stupid to effectively use reddit.

"I wear goggles when you are not here" is a mis-heard song lyric from the Macy Gray song "I Try". Actual lyrics: My world crumbles when you are not here. https://www.youtube.com/wa…

I prefer dipping my sushi in wasabi mixed with soy sauce and I don't care how anybody else things I should eat it.

I would love to read a blog post about why they thought it was impossible and maybe walking through the implementation.

Just tried Yik Yak after reading this. In SF's FiDi, appears to be mostly dudes looking for gay hookups. Am I doing it wrong?

Okay, but that kind of polymorphism is actually a replacement for conditional logic, e.g. switch on type antipattern. People hate conditionals. People hate polymorphism. Everybody …

You are delusional and incredibly vain.

This is satire, right?

This reminds me of Nike branding, which is very powerful.