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> This computer stuff is amazingly complicated. I don't know how anyone gets anything done.

What I use Rails for these days is (1) as a backend to our SPAs, so ActiveRecord, Rails controllers, and a view to serve JS assets and CSS via the Asset Pipeline, and (2) to serve …

There are a few things you can do to get over toxic behavior partially, but it is tough to do completely; it's a one-day-at-a-time thing. I've been through plenty of rough spots, a…

> Anyways, let's keep science the way it is. There's no way the process or its results could possibly be improved! Let it be know that this is sarcasm, for those that have trouble …

> and get some sort of crowd-sourced consensus from researchers with credible reputations. Would be nice, but where would the money come from? Even if you live in a country with hi…

For the most part, I agree with this. The biggest problems I've had at work have been due to constructs that were a neat idea but just add to the complexity of figuring out the app…

> My impression is that a lot of "mature" (aka boring old) companies like Angular 1 and the sound of Angular 2 over React. React has been around for a while, but it is still only a…

Very cool, but will it run MAME? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTjba8EM6A

What is the purpose of the drawings of hands, e.g. pg. 61?

> Not my experience at all. Totally agree. We had developers recently join our team, which primarily uses OS X and Linux. They were excited about using Windows since they had previ…

Greece is a great country, but seems to be at this point a welfare state. Whether there had been Brexit or not, it had fallen on hard times. From what I understand, many of its peo…

I'm not someone that would be widely considered to be an innovator, but I had a few of the very first microcomputers that came out alone with some accompanying books of how to prog…

Hi, Alan! Like many here, I'm a big fan of what you've accomplished in life, and we all owe you a great debt for the great designs and features of technologies we use everyday! The…