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Another metaphor: if someone decided not to pave their driveway, because they don't want it to get so hot in the summer, would you tell them, hey I'm not going to visit you until y…

> make sure you don’t leech off of those around you I think that's a toxic attitude. Picking up the phone for someone else every now and then is really not a big of a hassle. Obvio…

Sorry, for some reason I assumed that the question was about Vinyl vs. CD, maybe because my preference for physical media seems like something obvious that needs no explanation. An…

I hate everything about CDs. The flimsy jewel cases that break all the time, the tiny artwork, how easily CDs scratch, how choosing a song requires clicking stupid buttons, the del…

So you think that companies don't care what candidates might tell their peers... But at the same time they're sponsoring meetups and conferences, hosting coding contests, sending p…

Maybe OP doesn't want to burn any bridges just because one interviewer at a big company behaved like 90% of interviewers do.

> If you make a conclusion on made up data you get bogus conclusion No. You work with made up numbers to understand the problem. Then you can make conclusions even without knowing …

> The lawyers are correctly suggesting how to minimise legal risk, it's up to HR and the company if they feel like the risk is worth it. A good lawyer should also tell you how big …

I made them up.

> In Germany every single lawyer or HR responsible would tell you not to send any reason at all I can't imagine that this makes any sense. Let's say you give every interviewee feed…

> Aesthetics matter. Everyone seems to think that, and then they produce software that looks beautiful and is horrible to use. Gray buttons and scrollbars at least make it obvious …

> GNSS accuracy is poor in forests, canyons, and dense urban environments I feel like this should be solvable on the software side, especially for medium or long distance runs. If …

Looks like they changed the disclosure at some point. The original version of the article is here: http://archive.is/QCmA6

Training a junior dev is going to take a bit more than two weeks. I'm convinced that remote work is something that works only for some people and some kinds of tasks. Anything that…

Yeah, but currently everyone seems to focus just on those few customers who like subscriptions. Nobody caters to the guys who don't like subscriptions. (Or maybe just nobody blogs …

In my experience 90% of the barrel connectors use 12V and the only difference is the amp rating. And you can always use a higher rated device.

Electrical plugs have evolved besides adding a ground wire, at least in the EU. The most recent improvement is that most new outlets are now child-save (while staying compatible wi…

The EU regulations are doing one good thing: they are giving a small competitive advantage to companies that don't track you. For example, I've stopped using Google search, because…

> ... serious engineering challenges ... I'd say there are serious physical challenges with this problem. Wireless power transfer over distances of more than an inch without big pa…

I bought this library a few years ago: https://www.libxl.com/purchase.html I don't know how profitable the business is, but if the problem is popular enough it should be possible t…

I read your previous post about Zestful, and this years update, and I just don't understand who would buy this as a hosted API. To me, it sounds like this should be a library, not …

> What are they going to do all day? Be on-call. You need the sysadmins to be available to fix issues when they happen, even if the fixing itself takes little time. > ... universit…

I guess this also requires an organisation/business account? Because I can't get that either, because Apple doesn't allow sole proprietors like myself to get a business account. I …

If I want to add "sign in with github" I need to read some docs, get an api key, implement the feature, done. If I want to add "sign in with apple", I need to read some docs, then …

> To test I needed an Apple ID with 2FA. Apple make it such a pain in the ass to get Apple IDs. For example, they block emails from small domains. So I can't use my company email a…