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This is anecdotal and some guesswork. My GH repository traffic (clones, views, etc.) seems to be off when there are two consecutive months of 31 days. Currently(1st Jan) my traffic…

I may be wrong but I think it's mostly for things like enterprise support in case something goes wrong. IBM has had a large footprint in enterprises (WebSphere MQ, etc). People don…

Does anyone know if Springer has any subscription discounts, access via library, etc? ACM does not include Springer.

Calvin's dad was quite a character, wasn't he?

Indian Premier League (Cricket) is not a US league. Some reasons mentioned in the post apply to IPL. And IMO some don't (nerdy billionaires). There's even an acquired.fm episode on…

In a lighter vein, let me suggest reading the Psmith series by Wodehouse. If not the entire series then Leave It To Psmith, at least.

IMO at Apple the feedback loops seem to have gotten longer. They took a lot of time to discontinue the butterfly keyboards, bring magsafe back, etc. So it's likely that they'll dou…

> We humans love to make patterns out of everything. Not sure in which vein you meant: 1. Humans exhibit some behavioral patterns. 2. Cognitive bias where the brain thinks that the…

I used colima cli on M1-M2 Mac. A few memory related settings were required as some of old apps were huge. But apart from that it worked great. Nothing bad podman, just preferred c…

Yes, but as sibling comment says there's that thing about softball. I think Ballmer was better than how he was perceived. So I did expect some justification, etc in their MS episod…

My reading: the comment meant that encouraging diversity became a goal and it led to unintended consequences. edit: lead > led

Has stack ranking worked well anywhere? Genuine question. edit: Not relevant for stack ranking thing but I will highly recommend the book Lights Out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…

> I think you can actually do a lot with average people, if you have... This is an important perception. Possibly due to general (and HN) bias towards talent and hero worship, this…

"... two minutes into that Ovaltine thing and I just couldn't take it anymore."

I agree with thinking a few steps ahead. It is particularly useful in case of complex problems or foundational systems. Also maybe simplicity is sometimes achieved AFTER complexity…

I am Frank Costanza's lawyer.

It's pronounced thermometer. :-)

Gábor Domokos (mentioned in the article) talked about this on one QI episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUHo1BgTak