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Filter bubbles are easy: We are good, They are bad. Real life is hard: We are imperfect people, They are imperfect people. How are you supposed to feed the anger center of your bra…

They are very annoying when you block JavaScript in your browser.

We don't know, but the Market would figure out if it were possible for other app-hosting platforms to compete. Some would try to woo developers by taking less of a cut, and unprofi…

Do you mean unforced error? They didn't need the metaverse, but they did need some sort of new direction; buying out nascent social networks was a stall tactic to prolong the time …

"They" are whoever holds the monopoly on violence in the region. Sometimes colloquially called a "government" or "state". You probably don't pay them to uphold their power to close…

The engine was fine, it was a square peg / round hole situation. They picked an off-the-shelf engine that was designed to simulate tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons in 3D. May…

It's a statement about how we are destroying our heritage, our history, and our future. It makes people think about a world without the famous works of art which tether us to our p…

That sounds like the opposite of terrible. We are long overdue for some bloodletting in residential real estate markets.

I often wonder why people don't use SI prefixes for money. We could say that they've spent on the order of 10 gigadollars.

Oh, just wait until you start to work with cantankerous senior engineers. I once worked with someone who convinced the boss to do a silent yoga retreat as a teambuilding exercise, …

I am genuinely curious: why did the FTC take this enforcement action? There is no fine, no prosecution, no consequences of any sort. Essentially, they're just asking the executive …

Agreed, it's in the same vein as self-driving cars. Sure, it could put a lot of programmers out of a job in theory. In practice, the emergency brake alert goes off for cars waiting…

If I ever go back to a team that has daily morning stand-ups, I plan to ask that we use the meeting as an opportunity to do some morning calisthenics. It would be good for all kind…

That view goes back much farther than apocalyptic movies. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes wrote: >the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what thei…

I wonder if the decision-maker could have been wealthy enough that thousands of dollars felt insignificant to them. At some point, you lose sight of how much things cost, because t…

Stephen King wrote a short story on the subject, Autopsy Room 4 .

Unfortunately, in practice they now rely on one number: GPA, quietly weighted based on the high school's reputation.

They do, but GitHub is just one website. Most hiring managers will look at what you give them. Some like portfolios, some like name-brand degrees, some look for publications or par…

Too ambitious. Platforms like MySpace or GeoCities would be closer to the mark, if we could find a way to incentivize a hand-off approach to data collection. Site builders like Squ…

Wikipedia has the FBI's crime statistics from 2019, broken out into categories including "larceny - theft": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... Their hi…