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I've wondered why partisanship doesn't exist to nearly the same extent in business and consumer behavior. This explains a lot.

Two reasons: 1. You'll come across it and apply for a job at Google. 2. You'll have a positive interaction with the Google brand. A big part of this: it's something people want to …

I would like to see a language use decimal by default. Under the hood, it could use floating point for certain types of calculations where less precision is required. If I want to …

I find it highly unlikely this was a coordinated PR stunt. If revealed, this would damage the reputation of both parties, particularly Taylor. On a risk-adjusted basis, it’s not wo…

The article ends like this: "As Cowen puts it, 'what are humans still good for?'" For the most part, programmers program better than programs. It's amazing to think about the possi…

This doesn't seem right to me: > 3) How do you determine which devices and OS versions we should test on? > This should generally be an easy question for the candidate. Good candid…

Being reflexively cynical can be just as harmful. The problem for Yahoo is that, at the moment, the critical articles are very dense in facts. Take a look at things like this for a…

This is possibly the most source-friendly piece of tech journalism I've read in a while. I don't think there is a single point in that piece that would make Yahoo PR the least bit …

Looking at the release as a whole, I'd be fascinated to hear what features have taken the most time and effort? What turned out to be much harder than expected?

I noticed that PyPy does not show any real speed improvement over CPython in these benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ If you filter by Python, you can compare some…

This looks pretty elegant, but it's a shame that Elixir uses the Ruby-style multi-line code blocks with do end. Looking at those code examples, 'end' take up around 25% of the line…

As someone who is more familiar with OOP, I would love to see examples/hear more alternative approaches to organising code. Let's say that you want to design a CRUD app, but you're…

Why a countdown? Probably because they're launching a watch. Wait and see. My guess is they hint at the why during the event, probably in the opening minute or so. They will also p…

That doesn't make sense. Not unless the introduction of the tablet caused people to buy PCs and laptops. There might be some dynamics between the two, but it doesn't relate to the …

I'm a happy Backblaze customer, but I've noticed it typically uses around 240MB of memory. Is this normal? Why is it so high?

The story is sourced to “people with knowledge of the matter.” In the same piece Google goes own the record saying “over here in our darkroom, we’re always developing new ways for …

Let’s spend a minute to think about political language. Do we want to “ban Internet fast lanes” or “ban Internet slow lanes?” I suspect that most would favor the latter.