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My take is that one of Datomic's original value props was that it ran in your Java app's process. That plus immutability plus cache-foo allowed you to write your Java app as-if you…

Communication problems need to be solved with protocols, not apps.

Hmm, I'd say more like reading the (original) source code of git itself to learn about Linus and his coding"philosophy" [0] vs reading a modern tutorial about how to use git. [0] I…

> An old work of philosophy does not describe the thing you are meant to be learning about. It was created by the thing you are meant to be learning about, much like watching a vid…

> We wanted to know: What would it look like if you built a technology startup which could not make anyone rich. If you eliminated all the promises of wealth from the roadmap up fr…

I agree, I don't like the magic string approach (even if it is mostly just dot-notation attribute lookup). However, there is some good stuff here, and nested data lookup when value…

For simple cases like this it doesn't even cost a couple lines as sum() can take a generator expression: sum(planet['moons'] for planet in target['system']['planets'])

And then the salon and the restaurant start using Duplex as well, and all phone conversations become Google talking to Google. How bout: "Hey Duplex, call this support number and g…

> The amount of blaming the nurse for your fever on those issues is getting really concerning. "Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S." ( https:…

ncurses seems powerful. Any good suggestions on a tutorial or introduction to ncurses (which it appears is what was used for the ui here)? Ideally for python, or generalized... Or …

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Indeed, that's what we like to tell ourselves. But is that actually what's happening? Did you take the test?

Precisely the question. Why indeed? Would you be more likely to hire a man than a women for an engineering role? Take the harvard implicit gender bias test for one answer: https://…

I would read that.

I'm not sure how you got there from where I was.

This is precisely the myth of our culture that the article is trying to debunk. Instead of considering "wildness" as the observable actions of an individual (in our culture general…