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There is this free book, https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ , which is also available in print for O'Reilly. Manning has https://www.manning.com/books/unit-testing .

The link is wrong. It should be https://www.reuters.com/technology/atlassian-lay-off-about-1... @dang

As for Calibri, even Microsoft has moved on. They designed a successor font family for even better readability, and that happened before the State Department changed to Calibri. It…

The worst is Times New Roman text with Calibri page numbers. A sure sign somebody never learned how to use Microsoft Word.

The Warren Commission report was set in Century Schoolbook, the Supreme Court's typeface of choice. The appendices are photo reproductions of originals produced on typewriters, so …

It's worse than that. > After the earthquake Google's researchers changed the algorithm, and simulated the first earthquake again. > This time, the system generated 10 million Take…

Not out of the question after a week of Cursor just absolutely torching goodwill

Nothing for certain, but yes. The IP payout is to give the investors something.

It's a local NYC news channel. They are subject to this effect: https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/view-of-the-world-... Except they don't even see that far, since not even …

Only a draft chapter for now, but this could be very interesting.

Or, consider that the causation could have been the other way around. The EPO could have made him more susceptible to cancer. There is a mountain of evidence that the drug cheating…

HtDP was written to address difficulties with learning from SICP https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-... I have gotten much farther (and accordingly learned…

In the Flatpak episode, he rolls his eyes and states, "I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog!" The episode is mostly about how Bluey takes after the parents in a game where she'…

Asus makes a gaming tablet with a 13 inch screen with a 128GB of unified RAM on the new AMD Strix Point. I agree that MacBook is not an option. I have a work MacBook and it has bet…

I feel what you're describing very viscerally. I have tried so many times as an adult to finally get linear algebra. Worked my way through Strang to eigenvalues and eigenvectors re…

Maybe your problem is Stewart? I used that textbook and was successful, but it's not for everyone. For example, beginning calculus with limits is another bit of misguided conventio…

No, of course not, but credentialism.

> According to a new Gallup poll, Americans are losing the thread with higher education. Confidence in college has taken a nosedive, with one out of three poll responders claiming …

And there is plenty of bad philosophy out there. At a first approximation, avoid anything to do with the continental side of the analytical/continental divide. I say this as someon…

I've used it on Mac on my work machine for a year-plus now. Now the wait is finally over for personal. Thanks for all your hard work on this!

Fluent Python is superb. Definitely not the Intros for a desk reference.

You have to know yourself a little to decide between free Youtube university and bootcamp. I think of myself as a self-starter, but at some point, I had plateaued in my learning an…