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A road that is plowed and salted enough to safely drive a car is clear enough for me to drive a bike too. As for cold, the kids can stay under a bubble canopy if it's really bad. I…

It's precisely because I have kids that I prioritize a walkable place. Because kids can't drive! So in car-dependent places, they have no autonomy until they're nearly adults. I th…

I think as you gain more experience and perspective you will look back and realize that you simply weren't upper middle class yet. It's not about income (which is just a point-in-t…

What nobody told this unfortunate person is that working for a tech company is not the same as being a tech worker. I'm not defending the two-tier system inside many tech companies…

It's 100% open source, there's a very nice Docker-based install. You can host it yourself on AWS or Digital Ocean for very little money. Make a free Mailgun account and put your cr…

Yours is a pretty weird description of the current real estate market here in Somerville. It's a pretty even mix of owners and renters (about 40%/60% last I checked). Because of al…

Thanks, I have been dreading the upcoming time when my pre-touchbar macbook pro is too old and I will check out these tips when it does. One bit of feedback: > RAM usage: Useless. …

Sure, but I think many programmers underestimate the investment value of that time. Diving into codebases is a skill that gets stronger with use, such that you can eventually do it…

You're basically describing asm.js -- a subset of javascript that is known to be easy for engines to turn directly into native code and execute, that you can use as a compilation t…

The problem with this kind of deep dive optimization is the cost of maintaining it in a long-lived project as the underlying javascript engines keep changing. What was optimal for …

If you are running your own webserver even a static simple site has required maintenance. You need to keep the server and OS patched. So adding a letsencrypt cron job is not any wo…

There is a saving grace here, which is that almost nobody who would ship a new grid-based design today is shipping only one layout . They're shipping a family of layouts for differ…

They save people from serious injury much more frequently than that. Extreme turbulence that can smash you against the ceiling happens not infrequently.

> Getting off GMail is one of the best ways to take back your data in the face of dragnet surveillance. This just isn't true. You can host your own mail server and GMail will proba…

They take HIPAA seriously (because there are fines), but that is definitely not the same thing as taking security seriously.

> If the desirable employees, and the capitalists who want to actively oversee their investments weren't already in the more expensive areas Most of those people were out in cheape…

> Outside of this strange vocal minority that shows up here, very few people would actually prefer to live in an urban area If that was really true it would create a huge arbitrage…

People always focus on these extreme endpoints, but to get a vibrant walkable neighborhood you don't need anything remotely close to New York or Tokyo densities. My street in Somer…

> This may work for chronic conditions According to the CDC, 75% of healthcare spending in the US is spent on chronic conditions or issues comorbid with chronic conditions. So syst…

This is a strong contrast with my experience in trying to patch the vulnerability on an Asus desktop motherboard. The process was so byzantine that I very much doubt more than a sm…

I keep seeing this misconception repeated. Both default and named exports can be rebound to new symbols locally. But that has no effect on how statically analyzable the code is. “I…

The authors are mistaken about the impact of employer-paid open source. It is orders of magnitude bigger than anything else, and it has a decades-long history of success in project…

Your bus solution ignores what makes transportation networks slow. It's the intersections, not the roads between them. A dedicated bus lane wouldn't help anything if those buses ar…

> Six lanes of traffic > Cue whining about how pollution and an over-priced mass-transit utopia and high rise apartments will solve all our problems. You do realize that six-lane h…

Color me deeply skeptical of the suggestion to try to lock people out of community participation unless they pay. The real secret to not burning out is to scale up the set of maint…