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How do twin studies separate those children from the culture they're raised in?

Can you link any evidence of federal agents pulling occupy protestors off the streets into unmarked cars? I cannot find any and the linked article does not discuss them.

Right, but in Typescript you can't match on the type at compile time, you have to add a "type" field with a string tag and match on it at runtime.

Rust can compile to WASM, and I would assume would outperform vanilla JS.

I think the go language has taken a position along the lines of "re usability and abstraction are overrated". I certainly think there is some truth to that, I am really enjoying wo…

I have had the most success with a keto based diet. There is a good outline here: http://josepharcita.blogspot.com/2011/03/guide-to-ketosis.ht... Importantly for me, this diet dras…

The main downside to using Rust for web apps - at least in my opinion: is having to learn and use a type system which includes affine types: lifetimes, borrowing etc. But if you've…

> In many cases, that up-front cost is paid back many fold later, when other programmers (or you yourself, after you’ve forgotten the details of the code) come and try to read and …

> The reality is, that when OOP is correctly executed Can you find anyone who agrees on what "correctly executed OOP" is? I don't think there is a consensus on this idea, nor any p…

> For example, primitive types are not objects (no, auto-boxing doesn't make them objects). Does the presence of inline assembler make C++ a machine language? I don't think so. Sim…

Until working at Pivotal I had been working for about 5 years in various non-app industries: transport, signals monitoring, databases etc. Libraries? Not really, we mostly wrote ev…

Author here, FWIW this article was one of many posts some colleagues and I wrote at Pivotal during a "blog writing tontine" to encourage us all to write more and develop our skills…

It's unfortunate that such a lovely document seems to have produced a terrible subway system. Having regularly taken the subway in Beijing, London, Washington D.C., Tokyo. The New …

New York, Amplify We're building an Android education platform for K through 12 which includes mobile device management, interactive tools and classroom content. We live and breath…

"Perhaps, because we always had autoloading as a crutch, our existing knowledge has atrophied – or never even developed – putting us at an even greater disadvantage." I think the s…

Inspections are mentioned a lot. This is not a word I hear a lot of developers use, so I'm guessing this article is not written by one. The cost of these has been completely extern…