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really well written and generous with interesting details, too.

the ergonomic advantage of left-to-right is that most players use right-handed guitars, so the guitar's cord comes out the right side of your body, and it's most ergonomic for it t…

I post at signmaker.dev.

I've never visited this blog before but I really enjoy the synthesis of programming skill (at least enough skill to render quick graphs and serve them via a web blog) and writing s…

that's hilarious. he's out of line but he's right!

I had a positive interview experience with you folks a few months ago when I was on the market, and walked away with a positive impression of the whole team and project.

That seems a bit crazy and like it would lead to unpredictable and hard-to-mantain code. (pardon my candor).

Welcome to the antimemetics division. This is not your first day.

god damn you for thinking of this idea before me

I have a personal convention for books like that - I don't have any Dilberts on the shelf but a lot of Neil Gaimans, plus an artsy TTRPG book ("Maze of the Blue Medusa") that's als…

I need to buckle down and watch a YouTube video on this that gives examples. It obviously comes up in computer engineering all the time, but it's something I've been able to skate …

Isn't it always?

Yeah I don't know about this specific situation, but as someone who is on the job market, is a good developer, but can come off as a little odd sometimes, I often wonder how often …

> But maybe it is better to try to agree on what is really going on in real discussions, rather than hypotheticals about candies. I don't think this is going to blow your mind or a…

TVs and monitors are technologically different. They are constructed to be focused on from different range depths and widths. You can't just buy a TV-sized monitor and use it like …

A better way to express it than a "con" is that it's a price-framing device. It's like listing a watch at an initial value of $2,000 so that people will feel content to buy it at $…

I was in a programming interview the other day where the interviewers and I were sharing an online code pad (either CoderPad or CodeSignal) that offered a "Vim mode", but when I tr…

I don't really see how that's related to the article (not trying to be a dick about it or anything; probably I'm just dense).

And EU-only, I see.

If you're on a Mac, your terminal has `say` built in. Lots of Mac users don't know about it but I use `say` a lot. $ bash long_build_script.sh; say job done $ sleep 1; say job done…

> Worse it doesn't even really "work" anymore, giving how most search are flooded with garbage SEO results and payed advertisements "basically" looking like search results ... I do…

> ... "discovered" that troubleshooting Kubernetes was a bit like Warhammer 40k Adeptus Mechanicus waving incense in front of machines they didn't understand in the hopes that it w…

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> If you give people the tools and they still spread what you deem to be fake news, then you've done what you can. Tough cookies for you. Setting aside the inflammatory tone of you…