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Whether null/NULL is a good a idea or not (I like it, just yesterday it saved my ass) it saddens me that more and more articles I stumble upon are made to criticize technologies bu…

> But there's also the risk of a runaway reaction, where a machine intelligence reaches and exceeds human levels of intelligence in a very short span of time. This always puzzles m…

That's actually a very sensible way to put it.

I don't mind those questions in an interview as long as the recruiter is not just reading them from a paper sheet, and actually know this stuff. This can be a way to find a candida…

I kinda agree. I've seen too many people using their self-diagnosed over-intelligence to excuse some of their surprisingly non-smart behavior. Behavior that leads to failure in the…

No you shouldn't be ashamed. Most of the people I met who denigrated javascript with a blazing hate didn't fully understand its underlying concepts. They were trying to use it like…

Did you try other search engines too ?

> Can you develop this part I'm curious, how do you make the difference between a good engineering mind and a bad one for example ? Sure I'm simply stating what I've been feeling m…

Reading that "online content destroys the old way we used to consume information" kind of observation always remind me of that : https://xkcd.com/1601/

I'm pretty skeptical about that kind of school too. I graduated from an French engineering school and I was taught every-day by researchers and professional engineers. That's what …

This is a great idea. I don't recall finding a simple source of clear information about feeds when I started. That could be why so little people know about them. And I love the des…

Yes exactly. Building something fast without understanding the complexity behind can be both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing for the one who needs to deliver. It's a curse …

My guess (for what it's worth) is that getting the code off github is not the same as "un-open source" it. Open source, as far as the GPL license is concerned means that anyone tha…

Indeed, my bad

What you need is basically to become more aware of the value of your time. Every day you get 86400 minutes offered to you. You can either not do anything with it or use it to accom…