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Only if you're planning on telling the truth

>Records weren't great back then and many very old people may not actually know their true birthdate. Exactly why they can't be trusted!

You're just arguing in favour of birth dates being unreliable.

>experts have poo-poo'ed the theory Because the experts are in a joke, pseudo-scientific field in which the most prominent person is the man who verified her age with laughably poo…

In other words, if I need those skills, the people doing most jobs are unsuitable.

Are you confusing a binary tree with something else? Here's an example: https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/ It's an 'easy' question. The solution is <10 lines.

The few skills that are transferable across the whole industry are a tiny part of what it takes to do many jobs, especially more senior IC roles. There is no certification that is …

In the UK you can sack someone for being a poor fit without any of that within the first 2 years.

I don't think this is as new as you're suggesting. Mythical Man Month, from 1975, mentions side-effects in functions as a problem. Even lambda calculus is functional programming. R…

So how do you plan to get your own Graviton 3 computer?

I do wonder if the people who wring their hands over big-tech employee class-systems have ever had a 'real' job or if they think they get fancy perks simply because their employers…

The lack of valuing their customers is what made me finally give up on Android. Android's biggest problem is the same as it was 5 years ago - the support doesn't last for long enou…

Google is similar! Google helpfully emailed me to let me know that my storage is 70% full. ...as it was when they emailed me two months ago, and four months ago, and six months ago…

There is the occasion where the manpage is useless compared to the help or the website docs. For example, the ironic 'man doxygen'.

It's still in google's best interest that someone can use their phones without being spammed by porn ads or blocking Drive notifications.

That's entirely compatible with the concept of girls being pushed away from STEM via social pressure

Of course, the big monitor and quiet room that some of us get to enjoy were paid for by our salaries, net of tax. Yet if we try to convince the employers paying those salaries to g…

This isn't a constructive way of arguing, it's an irrefutable strawman

Then we lose the conceit that we're doing it for the kids' benefit.

Arm is about 90 minutes away from London

Race cars are optimised for racing, not manoeuvring. Try applying their wheel geometry to you road car. You won't get far, though you will get there very fast and very sideways. Af…

That was when it was still a growing business. Uber was cheaper when investors paid for it, too.

That doesn't seem like emergent behaviour

Driving for fun on public roads is safe, legal, and popular. You won't wish it away.

Sounds OK to me. I could imagine 'gift cards are just interfaces', which is laconic, among other adjectives.