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Here’s a fun theoretical existential threat: false vacuum decay. If our universe is in a false vacuum state (maybe yes? maybe no? we don’t know!) and that vacuum someday suddenly s…

First off, I appreciate the thoughtful write-up, under different circumstances this is the direction I’d probably be heading. However our web Frontend code is all currently in a la…

We’re about to embark on the MFE journey and I’m concerned about pulling it off in a way that will have justified the effort. Our motivations are pure, we have many feature teams, …

Weird, I just discovered and made my first UML sequence diagrams yesterday and today it’s at the top of HN. Super useful for describing my problem and quite straightforward.

It happens: https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-... I’m by no means in the web-development-sucks-lets-kill-the-build camp, I think modern web frameworks and…

You tease. Dunno why you’d go out of your way to not name names, but it’s working: Who?

This might hold true if you’re talking about desktop browsers, but it’s a different story on mobile, particularly in rapidly growing emerging markets. Both network latency and larg…

I’m curious, where do you get those numbers from? Those are shockingly low numbers and don’t align with my observations, but I also don’t have hard figures to back them up.

FWIW I used to get HBO Max free with my AT&T phone plan, so they have at one point given it “for free.” And I think you could be right about D+ architecture, they went from zero to…

Can I ask why that’s not at all surprising to you?

Thanks! Of your list I only know Ticket to Ride and Codenames (both great), so this is a list rich with potential for me. I really appreciate you taking the time to write that out.…

Off-topic question for you: of those 600 games, what’s your short-list of favorites? I’ve only recently started playing board games and there’s an overwhelming number to choose fro…

It’s like you’ve seen into my very soul. I often struggle to isolate individual problems within a new problem space because my brain prefers to see the interconnected web of what c…

Reading this comment had me cheering “yes, a thousand times yes” but then it occurred to me how often I turn to an O’Reilly book instead of a concrete project and I wondered why. I…

At times I’ve become convinced that all of experienced reality is narrowing to a point and about to wink into nothingness, and myself along with it. It’s hard to explain, but it’s …

The point isn’t how similar (or not) the experiences in my mind are to actual death, it’s that at those times I’m convinced I am experiencing not just death, but total annihilation…

It replaced my lifelong fear (terror?) of death with what I can honestly say is now curiosity. You can experience only so many deaths in your mind before you learn to be comfortabl…

I’m in the process of identifying communication gaps in my org and possible tooling and process solutions. Stack Overflow for Teams is high on my list of tools to evaluate and it f…

I too was homeschooled for most of my youth all the way through high school. At the time I welcomed it due to some pretty bad undiagnosed anxiety and ADD, but it in no way prepared…

“Can do” doesn’t always (or even often) mean “can do well” or “can do well according to our needs” or “works for all our use cases” or “works for all our users” or… If vanilla JS c…

Jesus, then just don’t use their ads tier and you won’t ever have to see ads, or even evidence they exist. It’s not “anti-user”, it’s anti-prepend, apparently, and it ain’t all abo…

I’m not sure how this is a mistake, for them to not at least seriously consider an ads tier would be foolish if they’re struggling.

Modularization, encapsulation, coordination, safely scaling contributors/features.

FTA: "recently answered some questions via e-mail". My guess is the interviewer just sent off a list of questions and Watterson answered the lot of them at his leisure. They just h…

Yeah, pretty sure that was a play on the CouchDB tagline.