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While I definitely understand what the author is saying, the reality is that, for the majority of writing developers will be doing, having something that is easy-to-produce and eas…

This is sure to put them ahead of Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay, Zelle, and Venmo. Everybody will be excited to use the payment system that charges them the most money!

Seems to me that we will very, very quickly see why these teams were created. Less snarkily, I appreciate that not everyone loved their work. But their work solved a particular pro…

Fair, I hope I was clear in my post that I don't mean to say C++ is never the right choice, but... rarely.

This is good, right? There are better languages for most (although certainly not all) purposes, whether you measure "better" through features like memory-safety or through develope…

As a marketer in a former life, I can't understand why somebody would do this. It's very cheap to get a separate phone number for each inbound channel and there's tons of software …

I read this as "evil Microsoft Product Managers researched the market and understand the competition and if they decide to compete with you watch out because they will be evil folk…

Absolutely! And yet no explicit planning for how they'd reword the manual in the future. That is the root cause of the real problem here -- not that there weren't backups, but that…

It's interesting -- they ID the actual cause of the problem up top, and then just zip right past it. The problem wasn't the hardware failure, or the lack of backups, it was that cu…

I switched to https://www.honeyfi.com/ and couldn't be happier. It's really powerful for handling joint finances.

A "personal key" was a 16-character string that was used as a salt(?) for encryption and as a backup for lost passwords, https://www.login.gov/help/creating-an-account/personal-key…

I think this is exactly it. Offices are prettier than ever and also less conducive to work than ever. I bet most people would choose an office with actual quiet workspaces -- even …

We have a very similar system here at http://www.synacor.com , and it works really well. The "Promotions don't unlock new responsibilities" thing actually has a big upside: you don…

The accessibility concerns are right on. Another thing to think about is not distributing them as a monolith, so that devs can pull only the features they want to use. One of the b…

This was the idea behind the late-Cold War "high/low" concept that gave us the F-15/F-16 in the US Air Force, and F-14/F-18 in the US Navy. Initially the F-35 was supposed to be th…

Although a significant cause of the kill ratio issue over Vietnam was restrictive rules of engagement, which prohibited beyond visual range engagement with missiles such as Sparrow…

This is exactly correct. The cost of holding the entire object in memory, for any significantly complex statement, is going to add up quick if you're dealing with large numbers of …

I'm more inclined to the latter. Sure, they hedged their bets in their SAFT, but to say "our plan involves not being regulated, and we give up if we are" strikes me as silly. But y…

I'm extraordinarily confused as to how this was not an issue handled before Basis got to this point. It's not a secret that regulators would like to have purview over these types o…

So true on the "afternoon drowsiness" thing! I hadn't thought of that. A friend who is a USMC veteran used to tell me that standard procedure in a briefing was: if you're tired, go…

Standing desks can be amazing for those of us who tend to sit like we're misbehaving second-graders. When I sit down, I rarely have 2 feet on the floor, I slouch not just forward b…

That's a really excellent point. If there's any risk that an employee would leave to run after a cheap perk like a standing desk or a good chair, it's just bad management to not sp…

The fact that this is true just makes it hurt more that I am obviously Jared.

The SoCal fires this year are not in the woods, so it happens both in the woods (NorCal) and not in the woods (SoCal), and people die and communities are razed both in the woods an…

One issue that's often overlooked is that PG&E has severe issues in their safety record. Last year their equipment sparked 16 wildfires, 11 of which may have been related to neglig…