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I feel totally the opposite. I feel like I'm better able to have more work-life balance. Our predictions are more accurate. I'm enjoying working on actual problems rather than boil…

I learned how to diagram sentences in college. It was eye-opening, and I wish I had learned it sooner.

oof - this article is pushing bad advice - general disclaimer: use a third party authentication system like Okta or Cognito. It's going to save you so much grief down the road. The…

501108 - never forget

Contrarian view - the programs are working. Rates of smoking among teens over the past three decades: Ever used nicotine: 70.1% in 1991 to 17.8% in 2021; Occasional use of nicotine…

My takeaway: I need the person who wrote the top response on stackexchange to tell me how to run my life.

I was under the impression that expressing a sense of humor was not allowed on this site. Can someone clarify :)

Yeah that was silly, but aren't all of the new iPhone cameras 3D cameras? People take photos/videos all of the time. Now you can immerse yourself in them. I think it's pretty cool

Yeah but more importantly the post suggests there are likely terrestrial explanations which obey the laws of physics as we understand them contrary to what's been depicted in the m…

You can elevate others while pushing your ideals - once you truly understand something, you can teach it.

As a US citizen, I whole heartedly agree, and I assume our government would do the same.

This is the first time I’ve seen humor on this site. If I were you, I’d be afraid

The debt to gdp ratio is higher than it’s ever been. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S I don’t see us cutting back spending any time soon, so it doesn’t seem crazy to …

I hope you're wrong. I understand that the technology for the dream that "Google Glasses" was selling isn't quite there, but I hope Apple has a research team moving closer and clos…

I work for a FAANG. Among the many benefits we receive, a large chunk of our pay comes in the form of equity. When the price of the stock goes up, so does my effective pay. Also th…

Also PureScript addresses all of the issues you've complained about above :)

FWIW this post is about PureScript, not Elm. The library is an implementation of the Elm Architecture in PureScript. Elm is a language. The framework that goes along with it is cal…

I was wondering that myself. Here's an Ajax example: https://github.com/purescript-concur/purescript-concur-react... It could use some type signatures, but it makes sense. As for m…

If they were worth near nothing when he got them then the tax would be small. Sending them is probably another taxable event but most countries allow you to write off charitable co…

as someone who has designed an application for financial services, I can confirm that Berkshire is a PITA :)

svn? Blast from the past! Why are you using it?

We should have a "My Favorite One Liners" thread every month like we do "Who's Hiring". Some of this is going straight into some aliases!

Great post,thanks!

> Admitting that I may be self-consciously afraid that I lack the education to “get” Ulysses, I also wonder whether works of art should be considered greater on account of the comp…