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If I'd come here in when React was the new hotness and criticised it, I'm pretty sure I would have been shouted down. In the meantime this one site I worked on, which used Java for…

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Wasn't this a bit of a self deprecating summary of his own career? Many of the comments seem to assume that it was written by his colleagues and that the description of his career …

That comment wasn't about cheating it was about the communication medium. I.e. communicating via text or app vs. face to face. I.e. talking to each other like we're computers inste…

> Have you tried taking a taxi in a country where you didn’t know the language? Yes, lots of times. It helps to know the rudiments of the language, but mostly we communicated in a …

> the things that created the impetus for ride sharing platforms Ride sharing platforms weren't created to make things better for the drivers or for the customers, they were create…

Yeah, exactly the same caste system. I didn't say only waiters were in a lower caste. This kind of bullshit is everywhere. Some establishments pool the tips (cash ones) and use to …

> this incredible scope creep in the customer's responsibilities It's the difference between being a consumer and being a citizen.

Yes I totally agree. When businesses push for going cashless, they are often doing it to claw back the tips customers are giving their workers. Tips that have become customary beca…

> Yea - And those darn kids play music too loud too! I sure hope so. > I visit NYC once a year. Plenty of people (esp immigrants from other cultures) don’t have “street smarts” tha…

Geez, this was just basic street smarts when I was growing up. Ask some questions upfront. Have cash on hand when dealing with taxis. Don't assume card terminals will work, or even…

> The sentence you quoted was directed at the other commenter's seeming implication that homosexuality's removal from the DSM is somehow an indictment of the psychiatric discipline…

I mean outside of scientific circles of course, you are reading that point too literally.

Ha thanks, I love a good argument. >Putting aside the fact that your example isn't actually an insight So put it aside then, and think of your own better analogy. It changes nothin…

I can speak from experience having gone through a healing journey where the online sites promoted a single supplement as the cure. I later felt that this focus on this 'replace los…

This reliance on an overwhelming amount of scholarship and citations is typical of conspiratorial writing, so it put's me off. I definitely won't be engaging with this evidence, ba…

> It can produce plenty of insights, but insights almost never lead to change. Insights by themselves can't won't lead to change, but they can be a starting point. Look at it this …

> scientific endeavors revise themselves when they learn that they are wrong Exactly. And scripture is notably not revised when it is found to be wrong. I ask, which worldview shou…

Interesting theory but I wouldn't be so sure. I've been through healing journeys where the websites suggested all sorts of deficiencies and supplements, but in the end I came to be…

> This was very different; prior to that I used to do 1-2h of strong cardio or lifting activity a day, was studying at multiple universities and worked multiple consulting gigs. I'…

Cos we want to be able to blame the users when there is a data breach. :-)

And this is why I hate having to deal with AWS. Learning this stuff isn't technical knowledge, it's product knowledge. I read the TCP/IP illustrated series cover to cover and learn…

All these solutions are mean, fruit flies don't do any harm. In the winter I kind of like them cos I don't have a chance to see insects. Also let me wax a bit poetic and say how mu…

So so what? What matters is how people evaluated the information at the time when there was uncertainty about the severity. Just because he the poster may have gotten lucky doesn't…