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There's a huge difference between: - Don't use this, it's harmful to you, and - Don't use this, it won't make things actively better. Study after study has shown that it is extreme…

In one case, the same person did the same thing to us twice in a row - interviewed, got an offer, then got "counter offered" from their existing company the next day. Pretty confid…

Small counter-opinion here; if I interview a candidate, offer them a role, and find out that they have been using our time only to get a better deal from their current employer, th…

This class of users is also some of the most easily scammed. These folks, who need "less security", are the exact same who will tell a stranger their password over the phone simply…

I'm highly dubious of any research that equates "went to a top tier university" with "is highly intelligent" as its only metric. Especially one that also says "but outside America …

Keep in mind that this book was published 7 years ago, using data from 13 years ago. That does not mean that it is untrue, just that the statistics may no longer be as relevant or …

Something that you might want to consider, but which hasn't really shown up in the comments, is... Do you actually _want_ to do the finishing? Are you taking on these projects beca…

There are still professional, high quality hand knitters in the world. Of course, having people hand knit garments used to be the only way to get a knitted garment at all. Then we …

Some input: The organism's environment. Outcome should be: The organism successfully produces offspring Natural selection is doing exactly what you describe.

It depends on the intent of the advice. If the advice is intended to let you "win the game", or "get ahead of the competition", then yes. If everyone is doing the same thing, then …

A familiar dream, that kind of misses the actual challenge of programming is not the syntax. HTML really doesn't take long to learn - at least, not the kind that's being produced h…

Why would someone pay in advance for something that they will get for free at the same time as everything else? Fundamental limitation of capitalism is that one of its goals is to …

So... If I smash in the windows of a Nike shop, steal all the shoes, then give them to homeless people, I'm excused? No crime here?

That's a tricky precedent to set though, isn't it? If you do sufficiently good work elsewhere in your organization, you can break the law without penalty? That's like McDonalds cla…

This. Absolutely. If something fails six months after release, who ends up paying the penalty? Are your developers on-call for production issues? Will they be woken up at 3 in the …

Would definitely recommend the mini-series documentary "Howard Goodall's Big Bangs". Episode 3 in particular, which was about equal temperament, is especially good. It explains thi…

Nothing stopping you from doing just that! Pick a game development technology that you like the look of (a language or framework or engine), do their basic tutorial, then drop by t…

Grab a makey-makey, some aluminium foil, some cardboard boxes and a laptop running Stepmania. It takes about 15 minutes for kids to hands-on make their own DDR machine. (Dance danc…

Interesting thing about annuals, is that they needn't be anywhere near as problematic as they have become. Consider - any plant which died after three months without reproducing is…

And that's a genuinely great thing. Sure, by the end Flash was a pain in everyone's backside. But Flash was critical in the transformation from a text-only internet to one where we…

I found it very easy to get it up and running with Android, although to be fair I already had the Android emulators running from my foray into React Native. I expect getting iOS em…

Relying on native components means that differences in platforms get propagated up into application developer land. Consider: Two "native" components have slightly different behavi…

Gardening, teaching, volunteering. Make a go of a few of my side projects, knowing that if they failed it would be okay.

Agree. Consider the situation of data entry professionals, those people who transcribe audio recordings or enter data into databases. If you have one person entering data into a co…

To be fair, not using a computer is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to maintaining your cyber security.